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Your goal is to wipe the board as clear as you can each round, for once you are out of potential matches, the lingering hexagons will be locked in place and carried over to the next round. Victory might be hard to reach thanks to limited piece movement and the way bombs work, but modes like Survival make it more achievable with its unique mechanics and the regular matching remains satisfying in every mode, especially when you can spot and work towards the more complex flower matches.
A GOOD rating. The complexity of making a cluster of multiple pearls is certainly meant to bring the player back for repeat playthroughs rather than relying solely on high score chasing, but it is what makes Hexic HD unable to stand shoulder to shoulder with the titans of its genre.
On a fundamental level though the hexagonal matching system is still enjoyable and remains so even on a loss, but the bombs can sometimes end a run since little hope for matching them seemed in sight. Skip to content Regular Review Xbox December 8, January 3, jumpropeman 0 Comments Xbox. Related Reviews. The game later received two direct sequels: one for the Xbox as Hexic 2 , one for Windows Phone 7 devices as Hexic Rush.
It was later remade as a free-to-play title for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices simply titled Hexic. Hexic is a single-player puzzle game that involves a board filled with 90 connected hexagonal pieces of different colors, forming an imperfect square with 8 pieces in odd columns and 10 pieces in even columns.
The main objective is to use a cursor to rotate clusters of blocks in order to form groups of matching pieces where one piece matches the color of two adjacent pieces , removing those pieces from the board. Similar to Bejeweled , the playfield is gravity-based, in which pieces fall down from the top to close any gaps and new pieces arrive from the top of the playfield. This can cause chain reactions for additional points.
The player's cursor can be freely moved across the playfield and usually reside at the central point of any three pieces including blank spaces in Survival Mode. Players can rotate the cursor, either clockwise or counter-clockwise, to move all pieces around it around one full rotation, stopping the rotation if it causes a match.
Some special pieces allow the cursor to reside on the piece itself, allowing free rotation of all pieces around it starflower or pieces in a "Y" or inverse-"Y" formation black pearl. The game's main mode is Marathon Mode , which is an endless mode where players try to earn as many points as they can before a Bomb piece explodes.
As the game progresses, players must endure additional challenges including additional colors to manage and more-dangerous Bomb pieces. The game has seven Levels of difficulty, which is progressed by forming clusters. In addition, the mode has a special endgame scenario that "completes" it, ending the game and granting a significant amount of bonus points. This is done by forming a cluster of special pieces known as Black Pearls. An alternate version of Marathon mode, known as Timed Mode , adds an additional game timer for increased difficulty.
The timer is replenished in small amounts by chaining clusters, and is fully replenished by clearing Levels. Forming Starflowers also fully replenishes the timer, in addition to increasing the maximum of the timer by 10 seconds.
An alternative game mode, known as Survival Mode , plays similarly to the SameGame genre by not replenishing the playfield with new pieces when matches are made. This challenges players to form clusters carefully in an attempt to completely clear the playfield. The game is played in Levels. Once no more valid moves are available on the playfield, the current Level ends and all remaining pieces are "locked" while the remaining playfield is replenished with new pieces.
Locked pieces cannot be rotated.
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