Kirby's Avalanche

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Kirby's Avalanche - by Lord Nazerous

Introduction:

Dreamland was a small quaint country located on a far off distant star. Until King Dedede and his minions invaded it and made Kirby and his friends battle for the control of the country.
Ever since Kirby's release on the original NES, he's been battling King Dedede across side-scrolling platform games, tetris like games, and now a very new and unique puzzler game called 'Avalanche'.
Kirby's Avalanche is rated 'E' for Everyone. It's an opponent/puzzler 1 or 2 player game.

Graphics [7/10]:

This is a puzzle game. So the graphics aren't amazing, but they are clean cut and nicely done. The puzzle pieces, which are blobs with faces, ooze together if they touch a piece of the same color. And your opponent expresses different faces depending on who is ahead in the game. And the only other mentionable graphics are the little animated sequences that show before each match in the 'Competition' mode.

Music and Sound [8/10]:

The music is pretty good for a puzzle game. The bulk of the tracks are remixed 'Kirby' theme song music from his previous adventures. There's a few new songs that are Kirby-esque that are throw into the game. The music is kind of techno and upbeat.
The sound is simply amazing for a 16-bit system. During the game, little explosions and blimps indicate that you've connected four colored blobs. But what's really good about the sound in this game, is the voice samples. During the game 'announcers' yell out phrases such as "Look Out!", "All Right!", "Here we go!". And before each level, the opponent says his name in crystal clear voices.

Game Play [10/10]:

If you like Tetris-like games, you'll love this one. The objective of the game is somewhat confusing, so please stay with me here; There's five different colored pieces. The object of the game is to get four of the same color to connect, horizontally and/or vertically. (They will not connect diagonally!) And you don't have to have the blobs in a straight line! For example, you could form a 'T' shape with red pieces, and they will disappear as soon as four or more of that color are connecting.
There's also a catch though, If you can cause a chain reaction amongst your own pieces, an avalanche of bricks will fall onto your opponent's side. (Hence the name "Kirby's Avalanche") You win the game when your opponent's side is filled with pieces and/or bricks.
There's three modes of play; Competition, 1P vs. 2P and Practice. Competition mode is the main form of the game. In this mode you will play against the computer opponents for the championship in 'Avalanche'. 1P vs. 2P is two human players, fighting against each other. You can change the difficulty levels in this mode.
Practise mode is simply practice. There's no opponents, only falling blocks to help you improve your Avalanche skills.

Challenge and Replay [10/10]:

The game has four modes of difficulty, easy, medium, hard and hardest. The easy level can provide quite a bit of challenge though! The beginning levels are fairly easy, but as you progress, the bosses become more and more impossible. This game is extremely hard, but fortunately you have infinite continues.
I have been playing this game for three months straight and am still not board with it. As long as you like puzzle games, you'll always want to play Kirby's Avalanche. It's totally addictive, even if you only play twenty minutes a day, you'll want to play longer.

Conclusion/Overall [8.8/10]:

Kirby's Avalanche doesn't have the most amazing graphics on a 16-bit system, but it does have very impressive speech and sound for the Super Nintendo. For anyone who enjoys puzzlers or an addictive game, you'll love the challenge and fresh new game play of Kirby's Avalanche.

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