Great start to the Art Style Series!

Sounds good.
Looks like the Art Style series will be a nice addition to WiiWare.

I like the sound of this game, I'm going to pick it up soon

I bought Cubello and World of Goo at the same time and I enjoy them both. Two great puzzlers. What a week for WiiWare.

looks good hope it comes to europe soon

That robotic voice gives me a headache. lol

"Oh no not another puzzle game!"

Great review Alex, I can't wait for this and Orbient to hit EU!

Great review Alex. I just couldn't get into it. Not my thing at all.

Good conclusion to the review. That's the same thing that happened to me. I was just going to clear a couple Cubellos before work, and I ended up not being able to peel myself away from the screen until I had finished all 6 stages from levels 1-3. Fun puzzler. Try playing with the Zapper!

great game indeed. Bought it next to world of goo. Sorry madstone and groovy blocks, looks like a better puzzle game came out

I was expecting the robotic voice to complete drive the review score down. I am pleased it doesn't dsirtract too much from the fun gameplay the title looks (and sounds...no not that sound) to offer.

This looks pretty good. Whenever I can get some points (who knows when that will be), I'm getting this and WoG. I was planning on getting all of the rest of the MM9 DLC, but I'll just get the extra level so I can afford this.

Niiiice. I wish these art style games were 500 points. 600 is just too weird and I've only have 500 left. )':

I'm gonna buy the whole Art Style series!

wow... i really didnt think this game would actually.... get higher than a 5.... wiiware games are really starting to improve

I thought it was going to get at least a 7 so I'm glad to see the 8. I love this game! It's one of my favorite wiiware games already and I highly recommend it if you like puzzlers! It's extremely addicting!

I wanted to wait for reviews on this, and now it looks like I'll be getting it. =D

So is this game sort of like a 3D Bust-a-Move?

This is one freakin' rock-solid solo puzzler. Yet another incredibly pleasant Wiiware, Art Style surprise that manages to be a much deeper experience than the surface lets on. "Just one more level" sums this game up perfectly, as Alex stated in his review; I can't put my Wiimote down. The robot voice never gets annoying, the simplicity of the gameplay really opens the longevity of the experience wide open and keeps the player striving for faster times and fewer block usage, the music has a nice, ambient drive to it and the overall atmosphere of the game is just... enjoyable. It's gaming at its most basic and most engaging.

I didn't want to have that many puzzlers on my wii, but now I have Groovin' Blocks, Plattchen (and yes, I like it), Toki tori, Pokemon Puzzle League, and I really want Cubello and Madstone, not to mention World of Goo, which I don't think I'll be buying soon due to a serious lack of wiipoints; I really have to admit that there's been more enjoyable puzzle game releases than what I expected, like this Cubello game, it looks quite charming, a very good shot for Nintendo. Now I don't care how many puzzlers I end up having, while they're fun (but now I'm gonna need more money ).

I really wish these Art Style games were 500 so I could get one with World of Goo. Oh well, must buy multiple cards.

Great review. Gonna pick this up soon. I loved Orbient.

Dang! slow down. so many games. I need more memory and some time to catch up on work. I didn't expect wiiware to get so good so fast. This reminds me (visually) a little of the old "Block out" arcade thing. I want orbient, too. Now I'm really ready to kill my mail in rentals and save it all for wiiware.

This looks good, defintley consider if i have any spare points left over.

This game deserves the score

This game looks great, i wish we would get it tomorrow. but it's VC week. surely there are enough wiiware games they they don't need to alternate anymore. i would by this , orbient and world of goo tomorrow if they came out.

cool i'm getting this

I CANT BELIEVE THIS!
I PLAYED BOTH THE ART STYLE GAMES AND THEY'RE RUBBISH!
No wonder they werent heard of before they came out!
Also, Not that Orbient is good, but it was better than this.
Considering that strong bad is worse than cubello and the same as Orbient is just ridiculous!
People, dont buy these games you'll be easily disappointed!
My Verdict:
Orbient: 3/10
Cubello: 2/10
No Offence alex, but I think you got this review all wrong...
Some of your reviews I agree with, but I had to put my foot down on this, sorry.

thanks for the review, the nintendo channel video was rather confusing. I'm having a great time with orbient and may pick this one up at some point.

I must admit that I really like the look of this one, and so can't wait for a possible UK release. Still not too bothered with Orbient though, and think the series should be 500 points rather than 600, due to the games' depth.

@Killraven: World of Goo's coming out next year as a retail title in PAL regions, rather than on WiiWare

@ACK!: You tell LAA!
[The Art Style games] are both very simple games on the surface, but gradually reveal their depth as you advance
Kinda like MaBoShi then? I didn't even realise there were boss battles on bar until the other day!

@Wiiloveitonline,
If you were talking about me being bad, then you're wrong.
I think reviewers would like some feedback on their review, so I was just giving back my feedback.
Usually, I wouldnt bother, but seeing that no-one thinks its bad, I decided to show my point of view on it.
Also, Yeah, MaBoShi, is pretty much the same, I would buy that game over this though, because it offers more than this does not that I like that game either.
@ACK!,
Again, yeah, I was just giving my feedback on the review on this game.
It might just be I'm not into these types of games perhaps, so sorry.
The only reason I gave my feedback was because I noticed no-one had said anything bad about it, and in my experience, that makes the game good, if someone was reading this and everyone thought this game must be good and read that everyone liked it, they'd probably get it, so I'm just helping them to think if they like this type of game before buying.

oh yeah i'm aware at this stage world of goo is not getting a wiiware release.
but i was saying that i would get it if released. Honestly i'm hoping they will change thier minds and release it on wiiware. if not i'll get it on steam, i hope that this message comes across because i've notice i'm not the only person thinking that way.

Yet another game to add to my wishlist.

Haha, nice to see people "putting their foot down" about their subjective opinion. I really enjoy both of the Art Style games, and Cubello has already sapped a ridiculous amount of my time. You can seriously zone out and plays this for hours at a time. I haven't even tried the Endless Mode yet.
@LAA: You made it sound like you had to point out that Alex was "wrong." That's why people are reacting the way they are.

Hell, I m interested. Small price, small blocks, so definitely worth a try.

I think these Art Style games are going to come with mixed opinions. But so far they seem to be quite popular with gamers. I remember the bit Generation games and how mixed the reviews of them were. They certainly don't appeal to everyone, but I think many find their minimalist approach a bit refreshing. Not to mention their cheaper price and smaller block size.

Finally a descent Wiiware game that I can enjoy without having the same old "should I delete a, b, or c, to make room for game d" problem like I do for every other Wiiware. This is a must-download title for when I go home from school, along with Rubik's World when it comes out in November.

I wished they released the art-style games in Europe already!! And we're still waiting for Groovin' Blocks, come on Nintendo, how long can localisation take for games with no in-game text....
@LAA: I really like to read different opinions on games but give us some feedback and tell us why we shouldn't buy these games

@ 31. ACK! - I think your review was excellent and it deserves the score you gave it, with the only down side in the game is that robot voice (unless you can turn it off!)

@ 33. LAA - Since these games are published by Nintendo it is an automatic download for me.

The art style series looks pretty interesting. And I wish every game has a low block count like cubello.

Boy do I love this game.
The robot voice isn't annoying for me at all. In fact, it adds to the game.

Quick question.
Does this game have an option to turn the robot voice off?

This game is so much fun to play.

I found this game to be descent but nothing that really grabs me, the robot voice is annoying as hell...

@ ACK!: That is how I feel about the robot voice too ~ When I am going for a shot in the middle of the puzzle(to go on the other side) & you can barley see the cube you are shooting at it is nice to know if it cleared them or not ~ Thanks to the voice you do & of course it helps in other areas as well ~

But when I am watching one of my friends play the game that voice drives me up a wall ~

This game is seriously fun for a 6 dollar game. I'll throw my hat in with many of you in regards to the robot voice though. It's not bad when it's just playing through my TV speakers though.

I want this game so bad. NEED WII POINTS NOW!!!

This is a great little game, but it has some pretty bad contrast issues on my flat-screen LCD TV that make it somewhat difficult to enjoy without getting a headache from eyestrain. They choose color pallets such as light pink/ pink, blue/ light blue, gray/ black, etc, and then sometimes the background swaps from white to black during bonus modes, making contrast all the more confusing. A rainbow of different colors would have worked much better (ex - the six colors of the rainbow, plus white & black if needed, would have given up to 8 stark colors to work with - and zero difficulty distinguishing between any of them) since this is a 3D game and contrast does change considerably, even between identical parts, depending on the viewing angle of the light to the edges of the cubes.

mediocre game.

@ absen and the deleted text: "As simple as it is, it took ages for me to understand what the actual point was."

It took ages to understand? Did we play the same game?

And maybe you should read some reviews before you buy games .

@ absen's deleted "Review": The first paragraph says nothing about the game, the third paragraph says nothing about the game, and even the second paragraph says next to nothing about the game, so the whole comment is ridiculous.

@ absen's deleted text: Your whole comment is still very childish and provoking.

If you read reviews (not just the score), you should have known what the game is all about. And i still ask myself if you really played the game when i have to read:

"The game doesn't even make creative use of the Wii controller; you might as well be using a mouse or standard controller."

A standard controller? How should that function?

Another point: Do you know Tetris? It is normal in a Puzzle-game that (with the time) the action gets faster, and also the game mechanics of Tetris isn't much more different than the game mechanics of Cubello, so i don't understand why you complain about the gameplay. This is a puzzle game, and if you play it right you have fun, but i think you don't even try to understand Cubello.

"Basically you could just sit there and mash the A button over and over again and sometimes win and sometimes not."

This is also so ridiculous that it proves that you don't play the game.

there. i edited down to simple and clear. that better for you? just because you don't agree with someone and are a fanboy does not mean it's okay to sit and flame people. wtf? did your dad code the game or something?

Flame people? Fanboy? Huh?

I just want to make clear that your negative points are not that negative because either your explanation is weird or it is the intention of the game or the genre to do so.

And to say that your comment was childish and provoking is rather an "attack" to your text than to your person.

i didn't have fun playing it. i don't like it, and i found it to be boring. i don't care for the music either and the announcer is annoying. also it is sometimes hard to tell exactly which color a block is. it also makes you sit through the credits unless you just shut off your wii, this is also accompanied with annoying music.

I like this game. There's just one thing though. There's no option to change the colour schemes for people like me who are colour-blind. So it gets a 7 from me. It gets a 9 based on gameplay but that fault brings it down for me.

If this had a co-op option / scoring, then there would be a lot more life in it, but for a single player game, it's not that bad.

I just downloaded this game and it just feels a little random.

Where is the actual skill or technique in this game because it feels like all I have to do is keep shooting until ll the blocks are gone?

Can someone please explain the strategy to me in this game because I'm just not getting it at all.

It seems you just fire until the blocks are gone and there's no real way to plan how to get rid of blocks faster or easily set up combos or affect the colours you are going to get next etc.

It's just see a colour that matches and point and fire and the only thing you have to do is try and go for the ones that will make a 4 combo quicker.

It just feels completely pointeless.

What am I missing here?

connect 4 (or more) blocks of the same color. aim for larger combos. try not to have it get too close. if you eliminate a color and there are NONE left in the magazine of that color, it is gone, UNLESS a set amount of time passes, in which case more blocks are added. There's not much else, but tetris is deceptively simple.

Currently debating over whether I should get this or Earthworm Jim (A classic when I was little). Only 800 pts left...
What to do...

bUY POINTS! woooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaa