Starcrossed - Match-Four Craziness

 

You were wrong if you thought that the match-three idea has already been developed in every possible way. iWin has developed Starcrossed, a match-FOUR game that will drive you crazy for the first half an hour or so.

 

 

You are to slide the tiles into the empty spot in order to form a 2-by-2 square of tiles.

 

As you start you get the beginning of the story behind the game play. You hear a voice, it calls on your help etc.

 

The game is very celestial-themed with cosmos pictures and hardly seen human images on the background. The music reminds Enigma style.

 

There's a short tutorial before the game and after that the fun begins. In this game you are to match a square of four tiles to make them disappear. If there are adjacent tiles of the same color, they will disappear as well but you do need a square of tiles.

 

You match the tiles neither by swapping them nor by dragging the rows. There's one empty tile that you can move around the board by sliding other tiles into it. As you start it seems to be one of the craziest tasks to accomplish but later on you get used and skilled at it.

 

The game features six modes: Untimed, Timed, Challenge Grid, Mastermind, Speedblitz, and Madness - more than enough to spend forever on playing this game.

 

There are six modes in the game: Untimed, Timed, Challenge Grid, Mastermind, Speedblitz, and Madness. The latter three get unlocked in the first three respectively.

 

The Untimed mode is the one where you'll find it easy to learn general play mechanisms.

 

The Timed mode is the same plus time limit. The Challenge grid mode offers you a grid of blocks. Each block is a new challenge. You start with only two of them unlocked. The rest is up to your skilfulness.

 

Other three modes (Mastermind, Speedblitz, and Madness) are pretty much the same modes brought to the extremes.

 

Starcrossed is one of those one-of-a-kind games. At first it strikes you with an unusual task, then it sucks you in with a challenging game play and a wide offer of modes.

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