How's your spacial perception? Probably better than mine, cause about five minutes into my first game of Tetrical I ended up with the unholy mess you see pictured above. Oh, the shame.
Tetrical is simply Tetris (or a Tetris-like game, for legal purposes) in three dimensions - you use the arrow keys to navigate your piece around the grid, and combinations of arrow and function keys to rotate the piece on it's y and x axis. It was the first game out of indie webgame studio Digital Machina, and was quickly followed by Cubical, a simplified version that doesn't make you contend with all those terrifying L and S shaped pieces.
The one thing that's missing from this game is jaunty Russian music. Without a peppy soundtrack, the game goes from challenging and fun to grueling and evil very quickly.
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Every Thursday on Geekanerd, Johnny (our resident Web Game Addict) offers up his pick for the best new game of the week.
Feel like getting your slap on? Well now you can with Rose & Camellia (from Nigoro), a Japanese Anime/Punch Out based slapping game. Now the game is in Japanese, and I don’t know how to read or speak Japanese, but I believe the gist of the story goes like this. You’re a little girl in feudal Japan who needs to slappity-slap all the other women in your quarters. Story aside, Rose & Camellia features beautiful graphics and a wonderful and funny game concept. Check it out!
Game Play:
The controls are really easy but difficult at first to get the hang of. Every once in a while, an attack button will appear to on the bottom right. Click on it then swing your mouse over the opponent’s face. When your foe is about to attack, an evade button will appear on the bottom left. Click on that then swing your mouse the other way. Once you have successfully evaded a slap, a counter button will appear in the bottom right. This has the same function as the attack button.
Strategies:
In playing this, I realized that the most important thing to master is the art of evading and countering. Attacking leaves you open to counterstrikes. If you never attack but just successfully evade and counter, you will have no problem beating the game. When the opponent is close to dying, attacking becomes much easier.
Thanks Johnny! Check back next Thursday for more Geek-Approved Web Games.
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