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Computer Times
Editors' Choice DS Game Roogoo Attack Reviewed by Angie Kibiloski
Roogoo Attack (Retail $19.99), from SouthPeak Games, is a fast paced puzzle game for the Nintendo DS. The game play is simple, but ever so addictive. The planet Roo was once a beautiful, peaceful place, where life was powered by colorful, energy filled shapes that fell to the planet’s surface. Some of the Roogoo who live on the planet have become greedy and power hungry, now being called Meemoo, and stealing all the magical shapes for themselves. Your goal is to help get the shapes to the planet surface and thwart the plans of the wicked Meemoo.
You are presented with sets of disks, floating in the sky, with colored holes cut in them, corresponding to the falling colored shapes. So, you might have a disk with one green triangle, one blue sphere, and one red heart. You must closely watch as each shape falls, and rotate the disk directly beneath it, in order to catch the shape so it travels through to correct hole. When it falls through one disk, there is another disk with which you must do the same thing, and another, until the shape successfully reaches the ground. If you don’t rotate fast enough, or if you just get confused and the shape hits a wrong hole, the shape falls off the disk and you lose your chance at catching it. Don’t lose too many shapes or you will fail the level. Each level gets more difficult, whether from more shape types and holes, more disks to reach the ground, or a faster falling rate of the shapes. To keep it extra interesting, it isn’t always regular shapes that fall. Sometimes, you will have to catch nests, eggs, and chickens, in that order, or treasure chest bottoms, gold pieces, and chest tops, in that order. There are still other object combinations to discover, but I can’t give away all the game’s surprises. Interspersed between regular shape catching levels, you get to have fun with the sky diving challenges. In these levels, you must use your stylus to navigate your little sky diving Roogoo to earth, grabbing shapes as you dive past them, and avoiding running into any floating Meemoo. These are especially fun when you reach higher levels and have to dodge more and more Meemoo and sky dive faster and faster past the flying shapes. There are 100 levels, through 10 different landscapes, and new ways to make each level more challenging await you the further you progress through the game.
Many games are fun and addictive, but Roogoo Attack is one of those games that you just can’t put down. At times the falling shapes and rotating disks become slightly mesmerizing, and you can find yourself in an almost Zen like state after a while, getting into the rhythm of turning and dropping, turning and dropping, so that hitting the correct hole with your shapes is instinctual instead of thought about. At other times, it is all you can do to keep up with the falling colors, and you revel in the true, insane challenge of it all. This game is great for your reflexes, both of finger and of mind.
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