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Frustrations aside, Critter Crunch sports superb, fluidly cartoon-like graphics, and Puzzle, Survival and Challenge modes on top of the regular Story stages. There's also a multiplayer mode (both co-op and vs.) for some double-tongue maneuvers. Sep 11, 2012 Critter Crunch for PC game reviews & Metacritic score: Critter Crunch is an award winning, arcade-style puzzle game, starring the loveable Biggs. Using his long, sticky tongue to grab critters from vines above, he f.
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Bland Name, Tasty GameHIGH A new, predatory twist on puzzling.LOW The difficulty of the final third feels haphazard and unrefined.WTF Rainbow-colored regurgitation.It's unfortunate that Critter Crunch has the title it does. It sounds painfully generic and one could hardly be blamed for passing it over while perusing the PlayStation Store. The name it just lacks pizazz. That said, I'm happy to report that although it might benefit from a new handle, the gameplay behind the lukewarm moniker is more than enough to make up for any initial impressions of blandness.In an interesting twist on the puzzle genre, Critter Crunch revolves around living creatures instead of oddly-shaped blocks or gemstones of various colors.
At the bottom of the screen is Biggs, the player's creature. This adorable orange furball has an impossibly long tongue that can snatch and rearrange different species of animals that appear at the top and advance slowly towards the bottom.As expected, the player needs to make matches to keep the action under control, but instead of aligning three or filling lines, Biggs must feed the correct species to its predator in order to make it burst with fullness and vanish. The dynamic asks the player to look at the screen in an interestingly new way (while always remaining on the lookout for 'food chain' combos) but remains instantly accessible and easy to understand.Supporting the clarity of the concept, Capybara has done a great job constantly introducing new mechanics at a manageable pace, ensuring that the player never feels overwhelmed or confused. At the same time, variety elements like bombs, blockers, toxics, extinctors and wild card creatures add a welcome layer of complexity to the proceedings. The game begins simply enough, but it doesn't take long before even veteran puzzleheads will find themselves fully engrossed in snatching and spitting creatures at a furious pace.That said, I felt the final third or so of the game began losing some of its elegance in favor of sheer volume.
Eight rows across and several variations of species at once felt like too much to reasonably deal with consistently unless some of the more destructive critters (randomly) appeared. Without enough of those screen-clearing beasts, trying to deal with the onslaught was a lost cause. In this stage of the game, play felt more haphazard than orchestrated never a best-case scenario.Frustrations aside, Critter Crunch sports superb, fluidly cartoon-like graphics, and Puzzle, Survival and Challenge modes on top of the regular Story stages.
There's also a multiplayer mode (both co-op and vs.) for some double-tongue maneuvers. Although appearances may be deceiving, don't judge too soon— Critter Crunch is a high-quality addition to the PSN library, and a must for PS3 puzzle fans with an internet connection.
Just be ready to grit your teeth a bit towards the end. Rating: 7.5 out of 10.<A href="Widgets</A>Disclosures: This game was obtained via publisher and reviewed on the PS3. Approximately six hours of play were devoted to the single-player mode, and the game was completed.
No time was spent in multiplayer modes.Parents: There's nothing at all to be concerned about here. Bright, colorful, and eminently safe, feel free to let your kids learn the ins and outs of predatory puzzling.Deaf & Hard of Hearing Gamers: You will have no problems. There are no important auditory cues, and all action is right on screen. Totally accessible. Brad Gallaway has been playing games since arcades were a thing and Atari was the new hotness. He's been at GameCritics since 2000. Currently, he's juggling editing duties, being a homeschooling dad, a devoted husband, and he does try to play a game once in a while.Brad still loves Transformers, he's on Marvel Puzzle Quest when nobody's looking, and his favorite game of all time is a toss-up between the first Mass Effect and The Witcher 3.
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Any game that features one furry, cute creature projectile vomiting rainbow colored, nutrient-filled puke into another critter's mouth is pretty much awesome in our book. While managing to pull off such a bizarre twist on one of Mother Nature’s more gross-out moments in a tasteful, stylish way is definitely impressive, Critter Crunch has a lot more going for it than Furbies that barf psychedelic spew.
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It's also a damn fine puzzle game to boot.The lush Island of Krunchatoa is a happening place for hungry critters. Everyone is out to eat one another, which makes for some interesting cyclical puzzle action. You get to play as Biggs, a chubby and cuddly-looking orange creature that sits atop the island's food chain. Rather than eating the other inhabitants directly, you'll instead flex your enormously long tongue to capture smaller critters that slowly travel their way down vine columns and spit them into the hungry mouths of larger critters.
What's the point of feeding your prey, you might ask? To stuff them until they burst open and drop the tasty gems stored inside their guts that are your true food source. Chaining similar critters together makes them drop bigger treasures. Gorging on enough of these treats to fill your hunger meter is the only way to keep your young ones fed (that's where the vomit comes in) and complete each level.The main adventure mode sends you roaming further inland on the island where you'll encounter new types of critters that change up the action by exploding, dropping poison, bridging chains between different creature types, and throwing other unique challenges into the gameplay.
Critter Crunch’s other fun modes can be accessed directly through the main menu, but two (Puzzle and Challenge) also crop up as optional stages within the campaign. Competitively (or cooperatively) regurgitating and clearing the colorful little creatures against other opponents locally or online in multiplayer matches is equally amusing.Critter Crunch is deceptively cute and cushy, but underneath the hood it's one of the most solid puzzle experiences you'll find on the PS3. The gorgeous cartoonish artwork is truly eye-candy and really stands out among other downloadable offerings for the system. The highly digestible, fast-paced puzzle gameplay is hard to put down.Oct 14, 2009.
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