Review; Treasures of Montezuma 2

What to know
Not much to know here. If you have been playing similar games, there’s nothing new here, except for the power-ups. Basically, you have a board with coloured stones, some of them with diamonds. When you get three (or more) stones in the same colour in line – horizontal or vertically – these stones blows up, leaving room for the stones above them to drop down. Look out for diamonds, as you have to destroy the stones that contain the diamonds to collect the diamonds to your range of collected diamonds. To finish of the level you have to collect an amount of diamonds. The faster you finish of the level, the better. Make good use of your power-ups to finish the level even faster.

Playing with friends
- no multiplayer. You could get a friend to visit you, taking turns to finish the level as fast as possible.

Amusements
I quickly discovered that when you get started, it’s hard to stop again. In spite that I know these kinda games, as there is several out there with different names and look, and even some playable differences – Treasures of Montezuma 2 is one of them – the game is basically the same. The funniest thing in this game is actually the power-ups. It makes you play a little different – and are helping you out, so you are rarely ending up with the “there’s no more moves” message. Destroying stones and making combos are very fulfilling when you get lucky and get big combos.

For eyes and ears
The games graphics are floating and have a distinctive look. The game isn’t a complicated game, so I can’t sit here and write that graphics are amazing and mind-blowing. But the graphics are better than similar puzzle games. The sounds are fine and are well adapted to what’s happening.

Gamer goals
There’s quite many goals in the game, like making a combo of 10, finish a level within platinum time, getting through all levels in one part of the game (5 parts with 8 levels+1 bonus level) and many more. If you are attempting to get all these goals, there are quite many hours to look forward to.

Glitches and mistakes
The only glitch and fail in the game I stumbled upon is at the level overview screen, when clicking on “Expert difficulty” it says “The Hard difficulty will become available after you’ve completed every level on the Normal difficulty level”.

Hearts
These puzzle games are addictive and it’s almost impossible to stop the game when first get started. This game having power-ups is making it different from the simplest of it’s sisters; Bejeweled, are making it so more much fun to play. You want to earn those power-ups to try them out!

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