Hawaiian Drops - Popping Colorful Bubbles

 

The fact that simulators and match-3 puzzles flooded casual gaming has been shouted at the top of voice these days. When suddenly, at the height of grey and cold February, here comes fresh, tropically-hot pop-puzzle.

 

The point of Hawaiian Drops is to clear the playfield by clicking on the biggest colorful drops.

 

Hawaiian Drops playfield is represented by randomly-shaped grids on a tropical background. Colored tiles of a grid contain drops of different sizes (at the first levels tiles are of the identical color, but as one proceeds through levels, tiles with drops of different colors are added to the grid, making the task more difficult).

 

The point of the game is to pop the biggest colored drops one by one.

 

To find a biggest drop seems to be as easy as a pie; still, a handful of multicolored similarly-shaped drops can cause a trick of sight, when all drops seem to be of the identical size. Here graphic hints from the game developers come in very handy - the biggest drops are highlighted to simplify colorful popping.

 

To pop a bubble, click on it and it will burst, sloshing about in the playing field.

 

The adjacent drops absorb splashes of the popped up bubbles until they are ripe (i.e. big enough) to be popped as well.

  

Starting from the second level, bonus drops are added to the grid.

 

After successful popping, i.e. popping of 3 or more drops, you are rewarded with bonuses.

 

Bonuses take a shape of extra explosive drops: when no more big drops that can be matched are left at the field, bonus drops are be used.

 

Mind a Drop button at the right of the playing field - it indicates the number of lives left.

 

At the beginning of each game you are given a definite number of lives. Every time you are at a loss for big drops that can be matched, a life is taken away from you. Once the life is taken away, a new huge drop ripens. When all lives are lost, the game is over and you are to start from the first level.

 

Apart from losing lives, it is also possible to earn them: the strategy is to preserve as many big drops on the white tiles as possible while trying to pop up all colored drops.

 

By the end of the level each preserved white drop turns into an extra life.

 

The game features beautiful Hawaiian-themed graphics and pleasant holiday-inspired music. At first sight, Hawaiian Drops gameplay seems to be very simple and consecutive: popping big bubbles is a no-brainer, the tasks (rare as they are) are introduced one by one. But on closer examination, i.e. when you really drop into the game, you see that a strategy should be introduced to a drop-clicking (the art of mainating a lost-earn-lives balance).

 

 

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