Games Database
Game Boy Color
Puzzle
| Also for: | PC | ||
| Viewed: | 2D Side-on, Static screen | Genre: | Puzzle |
| Arcade origin: | No | ||
| Developer: | JoWooD | Soft. Co.: | JoWooD |
| Publishers: | JoWooD
(GB) |
Released: | 2 Nov 2001
(GB) |
| Ratings: | 3+ | ||
| No Accessories: | No Accessories | ||
Summary
Puzzle games have a habit of becoming annoyingly addictive. Normally, that’s a good quality for a game to have, but when it starts affecting the rest of your life you can start to worry. As long as you know what you’re getting yourself into, you can prepare yourself for the worst. In a similar vein to the all-time classic Tetris, Keep the Balance is the latest puzzle game to test your intellect and your patience.
As an alternative to the PC version, Keep the Balance for Game Boy Color is far more accessible. Granted, it’s visually less appealing, but the gameplay remains almost identical, and it goes something like this.
Keep the Balance is like playing with gigantic weighing scales. The idea of the game is to achieve and maintain equilibrium. The longer you achieve this state, the more points you accumulate. You must balance objects on either side of the scales when they appear from the conveyor belt. It’s crazy but it just might work. Now, although Keep the Balance starts easy, like all true puzzle games it gets more difficult as you go along. The objects differ in size and more appropriately weight, you will have to think and act fast to adapt to the action. The conveyor belt also gradually speeds up. Great! Who would have thought the little GBC screen could provoke so much emotion?
To add to the fun, certain objects are far from inanimate. You have crocodiles wandering about that consume other objects and make your balancing life all the more trickier. Additionally, Jokers will be introduced and they have the bad habit of throwing playing cards all over the scales.
Keep the Balance is a challenging and hugely addictive puzzle game. You have been warned.
As an alternative to the PC version, Keep the Balance for Game Boy Color is far more accessible. Granted, it’s visually less appealing, but the gameplay remains almost identical, and it goes something like this.
Keep the Balance is like playing with gigantic weighing scales. The idea of the game is to achieve and maintain equilibrium. The longer you achieve this state, the more points you accumulate. You must balance objects on either side of the scales when they appear from the conveyor belt. It’s crazy but it just might work. Now, although Keep the Balance starts easy, like all true puzzle games it gets more difficult as you go along. The objects differ in size and more appropriately weight, you will have to think and act fast to adapt to the action. The conveyor belt also gradually speeds up. Great! Who would have thought the little GBC screen could provoke so much emotion?
To add to the fun, certain objects are far from inanimate. You have crocodiles wandering about that consume other objects and make your balancing life all the more trickier. Additionally, Jokers will be introduced and they have the bad habit of throwing playing cards all over the scales.
Keep the Balance is a challenging and hugely addictive puzzle game. You have been warned.
