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People frequenting MSN Games will probably know Mozaki – a simple puzzler that is insanely amusing. Now, AstraWare has ported the game to touchscreened WIndows Mobile devices – can it stack up here?
Mozaki can be played in two modes – it supports both timed and untimed modes:
However, the game principle remains the same. Bricks appear randomly at the right side of the screen; they must then be moved onto the screen to create lines from the border to the center:
Tiles can be rotated on-screen by tapping them:
If a line of matching colors is established, it disappears:
Ganging up tiles leads to cubes which are worth more points when being removed:
The tile at the bottom right provides with special tiles that are colorless(match all colors) or remove tiles around them:
Replayability is achieved due to the level system. After a few lanes are cleared, the colors at the borders are swapped(adjacent tiles also swap colors); eventually, new colors appear.
AstraWare included a little on-screen-help system – it proved to be extremely useful for me:
This review looked at version 1.02 of the game on a hp ipaq rx4240. The program needs about 2MB of memory and can be run from an external memory card.
In the end, Mozaki is an excellent and amusing puzzler – unlike the smartphone version recently reviewed at TamsWMS’s, this one really is fun to play. Puzzle fans should definitely get it for the hammer price of 9.95$ at the TamsShop(and don’t forget the discount)!
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I found that a surefire way to lose really fast is when you try to stack too many cubes at once to get that big bonus clear for clearing a ton of same-color blocks (like 30 red cubes in one). Just like in tetris, sometimes it’s best to forego the bonus and just clear the cubes so you don’t get yourself stuck and lose.