Slog - Comments on Impressions: Cubello (Wii Ware) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware Remember Tetrisphere? They called it 3D Tetris, because the word "Tetris" will sell anything, but this N64 game played more like a jigsaw puzzle on a sphere. Instead of fitting every piece together perfectly, you connected like-shaped pieces to make them vanish, eventually clearing off the game board. I'm a puzzle-game freak, so I enjoyed it, but like most Tetris retreads, it never approached the original in mass popularity. The biggest reason I lost interest was that it didn't make the most of its 3D aspects. You played on top of a sphere, but control was limited to a 2D... Copyright 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:18:47 -0800 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:22:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Greg Tetrisphere was pretty good, and there was the 3D element in the way you had to consider the layers beneath the top one. It was a hard game to learn, though, and it still breaks my mind trying to understand how they tiled the sphere with squares.

Did you ever play Wetrix? That was another of those bizarre, Tetris-like puzzle games for the 64.

Of course, nothing could beat The New Tetris. 4-player mode owned the shit out of all past and future incarnations of that block game.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172548 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172548 Games Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:29:13 -0800 Comment by ZWBush Looks fun. I gotta get that game. Metroid Prime Corruption is a great game I might add...

]]> ZWBush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172610 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172610 Games Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:58:50 -0800 Comment by Joh This makes me want to play tetris attack.

That's solid gaming right thur

]]> Joh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172637 Games Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:26:42 -0800 Comment by stinkbug Thought of getting this, but would rather spend the money on Tetris Party (please come out next week) and World of Goo. Have you also played Goo and if so what did you think?

]]> stinkbug http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172865 Games Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:59:49 -0800 Comment by Sam M. @4: My Rock Band 2 review has been interrupted by WoG, actually. I'll have something to say about it very soon.

]]> Sam M. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172868 Games Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:48 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle It's not Animal Crossing City for the Wii, that's for sure.

November can't come soon enough!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172987 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/impressions_cubello_wii_ware#c1172987 Games Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:22:20 -0800