Cubix Collects My Time Well Spent

What game should I review? I kept asking myself that as I sat at my computer prepping myself for a big review. What games have recently come out that should be worthy of my time and of those, which one do I choose for this review? With the questions in mind, I set forth to newgrounds.com to find recently added flash games. Games here are uploaded by gamers such as ourselves who create fun flash games on their computer and want to share them with the world. There were many to pick from and after playing through a few, found one worthy of my time.

When I first picked the game, it was just another new upload added to the flash portal. The game, Cubix Collect has now been nominated as underdog of the week and I am sure for many reasons.

Upon starting the game, I was asked to choose how I wanted to play, normal or sudden death. This was my first time playing and as with every game that I start, I went with the normal game play. I did not want to be overwhelmed since I was unaware of what the game included. So there I was, starting a new game that resembled a set up of Galaga, the classic arcade game. The controls were fairly easy, move the mouse around and hit the other cubes. The other cubes need to be the same color of the cube you are controlling. Easy enough to follow.

The game did an excellent job at telling me what I needed to do next. My colored cube needed to hit other cubes of the same color. For every one I hit of the same color, the number would be multiplied by how many in a row I had hit without colliding with a cube of another color. Frequently throughout the game I was warned of the many cubes changing direction. Starting from raining down in space to moving from the left or right and then a sudden criss-cross of cubes going in every direction. I had to do my best to keep from colliding with cubes of the other color.

Most of the time the game would warn me that my cube was about to change color but I found that despite the warning, it would still take a few seconds too long for my cube to change. While I was being distracted by when my cube was going to change, I found myself colliding with cubes of the wrong color causing me to lose my streak of high points. One small flaw I found with the game.

The more cubes I hit of the right color, the larger my cube would become. This was both good and bad. While I was being rewarded for my excellent playing skills, the game was becoming increasingly harder. Maneuvering my growing cube through the chaos of other cubes, all while avoiding other colors becomes almost impossible. The game speeds up and good hand-eye coordination is a must but no matter how well I had mastered this skill, was still doomed to collide with the wrong ones.

During the speeding up of the game, it would tell me to feast in which all the cubes would change to the same color and I was able to go hog wild and triple my score.

After a few minutes of play, I started messing up and as I continued hitting the wrong cubes, my cube began to decrease in size. Before too long it was almost too hard to see and then, it was over. I hit the last cube of the wrong color and stared at my score, 263,771. Not too bad I thought until I submitted it and saw hard-core players of the game whose skills exceed mine by hours of hand-eye coordinated games.

Next, I played through sudden death which as the title states, is exactly that. Instead of having a chance to mess up here or there, sudden death let me play until I hit the cube of the wrong color. My first time through, a score of 4276. The second time I did not improve by much so I decided to stick with playing the normal game. Each time trying to get on the leader board of high scores.

I would recommend this game to players who enjoy Tetris or Galaga, and if you were not a fan of that, then this game probably will not be for you. The lack of scene changes and levels may be boring to some gamers but if you are only looking for a game to pass the time, this is for you. Since I cannot give this game the 'buy it' grading scale because you can play it for free, I will recommend to 'play it' and see what you think for yourself.