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There are too many colored bricks in the world. You know what I'm talking about. They're everywhere, in all colors of the rainbow. And the longer we ignore the problem, the worse it gets. GameHouse has created Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery in a desperate attempt to stem the tide of this painted brick menace.
There are over 300 puzzles to choose from in this brain-boggling match-three extravaganza. Each puzzle is a 16x16 brick mosaic, constructed of colored bricks. You scroll through an art gallery of sorts (hence the title) and decide which mosaic you want to destroy. Every sixth exhibit is locked, and you can only unlock it by destroying the previous five mosaics in the gallery. Puzzles start off so extraordinarily simple that even a horse taught to use a computer could figure out their solution. But the challenge ramps up and puzzles quickly get difficult!
If you click on any group of three or more bricks of the same color, they will collapse into nothingness, or explode. (Just a simple explosion, but it counts.) The remaining bricks will fall down to fill in any empty spaces left behind. Oddly enough, they also "fall" toward the center of the mosaic. In this game, gravity doesn't work quite as you'd expect at first. (If you freak out the first time this happens, you should really be taking some sort of medicine.) There's some sort of unknown extra mass or dark bricks or something near the bottom/center of the screen that creates an imbalance. You can't see them, but you can see their effect on normal bricks.
Bricks that fall usually make new matches of three or more. So in most cases you can continue clicking and destroying groups of bricks, humming a little tune with your tongue sticking out of the side of your mouth (I don't know about you, but that's how I play most casual games). The challenge is to destroy all the bricks in each mosaic, a task which is easier said than done. Foresight is the name of the game here. You have to anticipate how bricks will fall and clump together, to ensure that they form groups of three or more. If after all your clicking, one lone brick is left by itself, you have failed. In the more difficult puzzles in the gallery, the order in which you collapse groups of bricks is paramount. Only precision clicking and crackerjack reasoning will prevail. A horse definitely could not do these trickier puzzles - not even a trained horse. As a matter of fact, I bet GameHouse wrote a computer program to solve some of these mosaics, because the game always knows the exact minimum amount of moves to complete each one. Match that score, and it will brand you a Puzzle Genius!
Like the funny story structure of Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, groups of colored bricks contain other groups of colored bricks, which contain yet more groups of colored bricks. Like Russian dolls. Only by carefully collapsing and planning your moves can you unite separated groups and work your way free.
If your brain becomes too boggled, help is available for each puzzle. But you have to wait for a timer to run down before you can request a hint. The game will show you each move of that mosaic's solution, and then reset the puzzle. And the hint timer. So pay attention if you're serious about using Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery's hint system.
Special bricks are available, but aren't used in too many puzzles. The most common special brick is the indestructible gray platform block. It's actually not a brick. It stops stacks of bricks from falling down and/or toward the center, so don't let any bricks get caught on it... unless they're a collapsible stack of three or more. The platform block and its evil ways make many a mosaic quite a challenge to complete. Curse you, platform block!!! The most fun special brick is the super bomb. It destroys a wide radius of blocks. Boom! There are also color bomb bricks, which destroy all bricks of that same color in the mosaic. For example, the green color bomb destroys every green brick. There is the row bomb, which destroys the entire row of bricks it sits within. Row-column bombs destroy an entire row and column of bricks. And lastly, there are non-clickable, non-collapsible blocker blocks. Only bombs can destroy them.
Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery is bright and colorful. The graphics are sleek and there are nice particle effects, like when blocker blocks explode or when you solve a puzzle. However the puzzles start to get repetitive... unless you're someone who likes anticipating moves and the consequences of the bricks you destroy. An undo button is available, and very much needed for the more difficult puzzles. For players who like having their brains boggled, this game will provide hours of enjoyment.
Wherever these colored bricks come from, at last we have a way to destroy them.
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I just love your puzzles. They are soooooooooooo entertaining for this ole 72 yr ole lady. Thanks, June Gray in Tallahassee, Florida