A puzzle that can stir up your scientific
bent of mind and remind you of the old school physics lessons, it is the Catch the Berry mobile game launched by
the Random House Digital. It is a conglomerate of the latest features that we
get to see in many other physics-based puzzle games, and whether Catch the Berry game could catch up the
expectations of mobile game lovers, is yet to be seen.
Storyline
To warm you up for the game, Catch the Berry started off with beautiful title cards illustrating
the storyline. The game consists of small elf like beings named Telfnords who
earn their living by harvesting berries. Among them Huckle, one of the Telfnords goes for his harvesting work and
finds out a magical relic that brought the berries into life. Though the story
doesn't make any difference to what they were doing, it added an animated
feature to the visuals by personalizing each and every berry with human
features and personalities.
The game proceeds by making a happy berry
get into a basket which is with Huckle. Side by side there are three diamonds
which the player needs to collect, but yes, that depends upon their choice. The
primary task that the game gives you is picking p berries, which will
eventually become a very tough one, as the game will keep you at your wits end
to perform this apparently easy task. There will be unpredictable barriers,
switches that turn off with time and fans that raise up the speed of the
berries before you are even ready for it.
The sequence of tasks that you have to do
is navigating a berry into the basket by creating platforms which are pre-existent
in the game setup. There is a limit of the numbers of platforms that can be
created, and that is shown at the top of the screen by a blue meter. There is
also ample scope to correct a mistake while creating a platform by removing the
earlier one. After a while, the task will get tougher when you will need to
drive two berries into the same basket with all the challenges thrown upon you,
and it will take a lot of patience and practice to master the skill.
Where the shoe will really pinch is the functionality
of drawing platforms and erasing the previous ones. The erasing option will not
allow erasing the lines with ease. Each line has to be erased which had been
drawn one at a single stroke. To make it more difficult, the erase button has
been distanced quite far from the place of your work, so by the time you go and
get it, by pressing the mouse quite often to erase a single line, the berries
will disappear, and there will be no other option but to play the same level
again.
Wrap up
To be specific Catch the Berry is remarkable by its ever changing puzzles which
never let a player to predict the game plan in advance. This makes it all the
more challenging. With its awesome artistic presentation, the game has
developed a memorable series of cartoon characters that comes out lively with
the game mechanism and puzzle designs. It is now left on the player to test his
gaming spirit along with a scientific twist.
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