Tiles

"Tiles"

Reviewed by: Carless yen

Platform: Xbox One X

Tiles is a game where you have to make your way through a maze, made up by different color blocks. You start on the Green block and the objective is to get to the red one. When you make it to the red block you must have made every blue block before it disappear by traveling over it. So there are certain ways to make your way through to eliminate the blues. There are light blue blocks that you must travel over twice, and dark blue that you only go over once. Once you go over them they fall and you can't go back that way so you must have a good plan to get through. There are yellow boxes as well that just disappear, so you have to make sure your past them before they are gone, and orange boxes that appear and disappear. it all adds up to a real difficult journey. You have to use D-pad on the controller so it really takes a lot of speed, I think this would be easier on a keyboard using the arrow keys. I found myself not being fast enough a lot of the time with a controller. If you grind it out though, and learn the patterns it is very possible. The mazes are all fair, and the controls are spot on.

Most games like this have little replay value, but Tiles is different. It has Coop play, and creation. So you can make your own maps. You can also play other peoples as well. Once you create and publish your map it goes online for everyone to enjoy. You can also play everyone else's. look for mine I made a Jason Voorhees mask level. There are hundreds to play though, and you can find yourself killing a lot of hours just going through them. There is plenty of levels made by the developers as well in the campaign, so this game will really keep you busy awhile. It is also a pretty good achievement collecting game, because most are fairly simple.

Pros: Smooth Controls

Challenging mazes

Creation and Co-op add tons of replay value

Good price tag

Cons: Can be hard to move with D-pad at times.

Pretty Plain as far as background and music

Overall: 7.1 Pretty basic puzzler, that might be a pass if not of the addition of Co-op and creation modes.

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