Very bright, vibrant, and the foreground that you play upon stands out nicely from the background that usually features an animated sky scape that looks both mystical and complicated while also not being too distracting. These come with their own weight properties, so you can expect to be trying to pile a load of weight onto the left hand side to counter balance for example. Sometimes magic spells, especially in Survival when dark spells are at random, will transform your blocks, either locking them in a certain way, making them huge, or turning them into giant objects. The nudge block system can work in your favour to fill up a hole, but miss it and you could end up knocking the whole tower down, which is rather bloody annoying. A fuller base will be more steady, but over time, the higher you go, the thinner it usually ends up becoming. The actual physics of Tricky Towers are fantastic, while they don’t appear overly real, they still pose a challenge in which you need to strategically place blocks on certain sides to keep the tower from wobbling. The cool thing about Tricky Towers being a physics puzzler is that it can have players “nudge” the block that’s currently falling,which can either be used to fill in a gap below the top of the tower, giving more stability, or it can be used to nudge other messy blocks off the tower hopefully clearing a flat surface for you to start again…or messing up and knocking your tower over. Light spells will aid the player in their construction, while dark magic will help slow down the opposition in various ways. It’s not all about building blocks though, because the game has magical spells that can be cast by each player, and those spells are either light or dark spells. There’s also a tournament mode in which you can take part in a series of cups that have different levels to clear, eventually finishing the final level and being crowned the winner. Playing against friends will see you all competing in a fun colourful environment. If you do end up with the same problem as me and struggle to find Online players, singleplayer does have leaderboards which means that you can still try and be better than someone else in that way. I experienced no lag, but plenty of people halfway through a match dropping out. The main issue I found was actually to do with hosts dropping out. I did manage to find players on a weekend though, and managed to try the standard Online games, and the tournament mode. Now, I’m going to be honest here, I have been trying for about a week now to find an Online match with someone on Tricky Towers, but I’m not having any luck with connecting with players, which kind of leads me to thinking that perhaps the marketing wasn’t a strong point in the games launch, players are either just playing it locally, or sticking to Single player. The Xbox One exclusive game mode sees players trying to build their tower as quickly as possibly to beat the rising water below them. Puzzle is, as expected, puzzling, and finds you trying to place bricks in a certain way, using up all of your brick collection you’re given at the start, without going over the line. Survival hands you three life points and has you trying to build as high as you can without dropping your bricks. Race mode sees players trying to build their own towers in order to reach the finish line. The original Tricky Towers has three game modes available, Race, Survival, and Puzzle, these modes are also in the Xbox One version. Rather than clearing rows as you do in the 1984 classic, Tricky Towers finds you trying to stack the blocks as neatly as you can in order to form a tower, and depending on the game mode, it’s for various purposes, so let’s talk about those. Whilst the title bears incredible similarities to Tetris, even down to every one of the standard blocks, the gameplay itself is different. It went on to port to the Xbox One in September 2017 thanks to BlitWorks, with an exclusive game mode which I’ll touch on shortly. The original game, developed by Weird Beard Games, launched on Steam and PS4 back in 2016. It also aims to get players together both locally, and Online to build their clumsy tower of bricks in various game modes. Tricky Towers is basically a more modern version of Tetris, but with a magical and physics based twist.
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