atari2600land's Blog - Klax

RSS Bot · June 1, 2007

I've never been that big of a fan of Klax to begin with. When it comes to color-matching brick games, I'd much rather have Tetris 2. But there is no Tetris 2 on the Lynx. There's Klax. And I don't like this version. Here's why: Waves (levels) 1 & 2 are too easy, and then once you get to Wave 3, it gets insanely hard. And even if I do get past wave 3, look what's on wave 4:

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See, there's TOO MANY COLORS and TOO MANY BRICKS COMING MY WAY! If there had been 4 colors, that would make the game a lot better, but no, there's SEVEN! And on Wave 4, too! I can't make snap decisions that fast if I have to be matching colors. I think they should have made the diagonal waves later in the game. I'd like the game better if it gradually got harder, but since it gets way too hard only on Wave 3 and up, I'm going to have to give this a :thumbsdown: .