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i dont understand this game

Interesting idea but no tutorial, terrible UI, annoying music, aggravating gameplay. Skip this one.

Simple concept : you have colored dots to clear by drawing a line that will touch or pass through them. The trick is that you can't touch anything while drawing said line, but you can let it go at anytime, and it will then repeat the pattern you just made. It can get quite tough (I had a hard time with level 45 for example), and at the time of this review, I'm still not done (at level 85 out of 100). The music is ok, but extremely repetitive, you'll stop it quite quickly (which is actually more complicated than it should : you get access to the options only after finishing a level). Strangely too, there's no possibility to go to the next level once you've finished one, you must go back to the level select screen. There's also a leaderboard, but I have actually no idea of what it is tracking (some time, but which one ? no clue). Apart from these little flaws, certainly recommended (if you have enough patience to carefully and repeatedly draw a pattern until you get everything right).

Draw a line that will repeat a pattern to hit all the coloured dots. Its quite a neat mechanic but ultimately it boils down to much the same method of completing each level. Trace out where the dots are offset from where you need to hit then start the pattern offset back again. There is the odd addition like dots that fire off dots, but they never really get smart enough to change the basic tactic. What it amounts to is just a series of those get a wire hoop from one end to the other without touching the wire its hooped around. I did finish it, but it was largely just keeping my hands busy while I caught up with some TV, and frankly a good ballpoint pen can reach that level. Its a nice proof of concept for a single mechanic, but that mechanic should probably be one small part of a bigger better puzzler. Edit: Also, the games UI is quite broken. Buttons will go off screen if you play it in a window, and if you pick the wrong aspect ratio its unplayable. It doesnt break the game, but it is very shoddy. Dont rely on its extremely repetitive single piece of music either.