Casual Game Review: Zenses
My friend Rick, of Panda Passport and Little Red Blog fame, reviewed Zenses for Nintendo DS. I love casual games and Rick is a great writer, and the combination makes Zenses Rainforest Review: Do You Want a Break From Frustrating Games? much more than the usual “This game r0x0r!!!1!1!” (or sux0rs, I guess).
Zenses Rainforest is a puzzle game. Well, more specifically it’s a group of six puzzle games. Picture Tetris in a Japanese rock garden with a waterfall, and some pot-smoking Enya fans sitting nearby. That’s kinda like Zenses.
I started playing this game after trying out Quantum of Solace for about an hour. I’m a pretty casual gamer, and maybe I just don’t have the patience required for the Jame Bond game. But in any case, 60 minutes of repeatedly trying to follow Judy Dench’s commands was enough to make me want to put my head through the wall. I quit before even finishing the training round. And that’s when I decided to give Zenses a try.
Unlike many other games that have a difficulty level setting, Zenses is a little more “Zensitive” about choosing its words. Rather than making you feel like a wuss for choosing the easy level, Zenses asks you to choose the difficulty level by sliding a selector up the intensity bar. The default is zero intensity, which is kinda like Zenses telling you “Hey man, don’t over-do it.”
Kind of makes me want to try it… when I finish playing Harvest Moon!
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