Kemco Makes It Look Over-Easy

In the world of puzzle games, we all know about the 900-pound gorilla, Tetris. Although most people have tried to imitate the winning formula, few have been successful or added anything useful. Kemco's Eggmania really impressed us with its innovative look at the block-building action we love. Eggmania combines the standard falling-block model with a Bubble-Bobble style of character-based gameplay. Little egg-looking characters snag blocks as they fall and throw them down onto the top of the pile, building matching patterns. That much is ordinary, but the neat things we saw playing through the Tutorial and a few sample levels were characters jumping down below the block pile to toss fallen blocks back up into the mix, characters doing super-throws down into the pile for special block patterns, and some truly kickin? graphics. Appearing on Gamecube, PS2 and of course featuring a GBA version, this puzzler is looking fine and should include many multiplayer modes and additional features when it shoots out to stores this Fall.