I bought a DS for this game!
I watched some videos on Gamespot and said, "MAN that looks awesome."
So, I did it. I went out and bought a DS for Meteos. And man I have no regrets of any type!
This game is really freakin' fun. From the screens, you may think it looks like any other Tetris type block game.
BUT IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT!
The blocks (Meteos) fall from the sky one at a time and you have NO control over them until they hit the ground. From there, you can move them using the touch screen up and down the column they are in. The point is to get 3 or more in a row across or up and down. When you do that, they ignite and shoot into the sky, including all the blocks that are on top of them. How far up and for how long they stay in the sky depends on the planet you are on. Gravity makes a difference, that sort of thing. You get an initial burst into the air, then, the blocks will fall back down to the ground. The gravity of hte planet you are on controls the speed of how fast they fall back down. When a block goes off the top of the screen, it is shot off into space (the top screen) and if you are battling, it gets shot to one of the opposing planets.
Sounds simple right? WRONG! This game gets quite challenging. Some of the cool stuff that you can do like igniting more meteos that are already in the air to form a combo. This usually will send the entire stack above the second ignition off the screen. If you get 3 up and down, they usually shoot of the screen right away since it's more concentrated. Another thing you can do is set up your meteos so that as soon as a set hits the ground, there is a row of 3 waiting for the ones in the air to hit. The instant the ignited set hits, it ignites again. This also usually sends all of them off the screen.
Gamespot's Guide does a GREAT job of explaining these things. Much better than I did.
The speed of this game starts to get really really fast. I have a lot of trouble keeping up. I haven't played it enough to be a pro yet, but I'm getting the hang of it. I have yet to beat the game even on the easiest difficulty. Of course all the times I have sat down to play it have been in short periods. So we will see.
The only issue I have with gameplay is that sometimes it seems as if the touch screen is picking up the wrong meteo to move around. But that was probably just me getting used to the size of the stylus and using the touch screen in general since it was my first game for the DS
You can play up to 4 players, including CPU players. I can see where this game would be a lot of fun 4 players and it would probably be really hard too.
Well, most of the puzzle games that were coming out on DS weren't to wonderful to me. Nothing really stood up to Lumines. I mean Lumines was the best puzzle game I've played since Super Puzzle Fighter! Then Meteos comes around.
I have to say, it levels the playing field for the DS vs PSP fight in the Puzzle genre.
If you have a DS, and you like puzzle games, BUY THIS. I'm having a great time playing it.
On a different note, For others that have this problem. I am partially color blind and I'm having no problem playing this game.