#Luxor game music plus#

#Luxor game music plus#

What Taito does offer as an advantage is a Bluetooth-enabled versus mode that works with iPhones and second-generation iPod touches, plus lots of stages-over 150, plus challenges. It also lacks for a colorblind-friendly mode, an issue primarily because of the similarity of the blue and purple bubbles. Though it has received improvements of its own, Bust-A-Move doesn’t have the feel of a game that was developed from the ground up for this platform, or really given that last coat of polish that would make it special, a la Space Invaders Infinity Gene. Moreover, whereas titles such as Bubble Bash may be clones of Taito’s theme, they’ve evolved the concept considerably over what’s in this version, with more power ups to break up the action, more versatile play mechanics for cannon placement, and in some cases, far more bubbles on the screen at a given time. The bubbles occasionally glimmer a little with internal bubbles of their own, but there are few frames of animation, and the motion of the cannon at the bottom of the screen is less than completely fluid, even on the iPhone 3GS. At least in screen shot appearance, the game looks sharp and nicely tailored to the iPhone and iPod touch display.Īnimation, however, is less than spectacular. Everything’s been redrawn for a new story mode, which sees Bub the dragon proceeding through “Worlds” with linear map screens and multiple stages to complete, and though the music is very similar to the original game’s-and replays stage after stage for thirty stages in a row-it’s been cleaned up and added to, as well.

Every match of three or more same-colored bubbles brought you closer to finishing the level every failed match added to the clutter on-screen and made failure that much more likely.īust-A-Move was originally released in 1994, and though the iPhone and iPod touch version isn’t an exact port of the arcade game, it’s basically the same save for updated graphics and music. Cartoony dragon characters from Taito’s once-popular Bubble Bobble appeared on screen-the reason for the game’s original Japanese title Puzzle Bobble-and numerous matrices of bubbles were presented in sequence as increasingly challenging levels, dropping closer and closer to the bottom of the screen with every set of bubbles you launched. It pioneered a genre of match-three games based on a cannon at the bottom of the screen firing colored bubbles into various grids at the top and middle of the screen, doing so with a distinctly Japanese sense of upbeat, kid-friendly cuteness for both its graphics and music. Because it was preceded on the iPhone by a number of clones, most notably including Gameloft’s well-developed Bubble Bash titles, we’ve referenced Taito’s Bust-A-Move ($5) quite a few times over the last year.