Comic Con: Roogoo (Xbox 360)
- Scribbled on April 18th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Comic Con, Microsoft Xbox 360, Previews, Puzzle, Xbox Live Arcade
One of the best videogames I sampled at Comic Con today was Roogoo, a nifty puzzle game by Southpeak.
The objective of the game is to guide specially shaped blocks though a series of rotating disks. Shapes include triangles, squares, circles, stars, and so forth. Each level, the player is given a set level of meteors to try to allow safely to pass to the bottom – otherwise, the game ends.
Like playing with a child’s “square peg, round peg” game, there are slots in the disks that allow the blocks to fit into the hole. When the stack of blocks is heavy enough, it descends to the lower disks. When a stack hits the wrong shaped slot, the player loses blocks from the stack until all of the blocks are gone or the player manages to save some of them by properly aligning them before they are all gone. The object is to get as many meteors into the bottom rung as possible.
Obstacles include “Meemoos”, goofy looking enemies who impede the blocks’ movement by sitting atop slots. To get rid of them, the player must bop them via quick drop a la Tetris , which knocks them out of the way. This also makes the block stack bounce in the air, so it is possible to eliminate Meemoos on other slots, so long as the final location for the stack is the current slot. Butterflies will sometimes grab a falling stack and lift it to an upper rung, and the player must rotate the disc so that it goes through the proper slot.
I played with some of the Southpeak reps and the multiplayer battle was fun as hell. This one looks like a real winner for Xbox Live Arcade.
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