Aqua Aqua

General/Summary: In my opinion, this is the best puzzle game on the psII. I've played most games on the hyped up console, and have been to this point disappointed. This game however kept me glued to the screen. This game is basically an isometric view of a tetris style game. However this game is much more involved. Your presented with a landscape, were you have to biuld up sealed areas to place water blockes into. As a result lakes are created, which are evaporated by using fire blocks. As the game progresses, the tasks are a little more complex. Walls cannot be too top heavy or natural disasters come into affect. eg. earthquakes. Later in the game ice block occur more often. As a result your lakes turn into ice, thus harder to evaporate. The controls are as you would expect in a puzzle game. The only problem I have, is that I found it difficult to line up the blocks in certian areas. That is mainly due to the angle of the gameplay. If you ever get a chance to play this game give it...

Aqua Aqua gives you a square of land (viewed from a corner - think Populous) onto which you must drop blocks of 'uppers' and 'downers', Tetris-style, to create lakes. You want to do this because sometimes you don't get a block but a quantity of water, which you have to drop into a lake. Sometimes you get a fireball, which you can drop into a lake to evaporate the water. This is desirable because if a lake overflows and the water runs off the edge of the land it collects in a gauge at the side of the screen. When the gauge is full, you lose. Simple.

Of course, it's many years since a game was allowed to be _that_ simple. So there are complications: bombs, which punch holes in the land; earthquakes, which demolish your lakes if the land gets too mountainous; and a wide range of arbitrary and non-intuitive bonuses. You can't ignore these, as if you want to see the whole game you occasionally have to score a certain number of points within a time limit to avert disaster. It's...