{"id":16243,"date":"2017-03-29T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2017-02-23T07:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:16:37","slug":"chime-sharp-ps4-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/29\/chime-sharp-ps4-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Chime Sharp (PS4, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chime Sharp is a block puzzle challenge that\u2019ll please fans of games like Tetris and Lumines. I actually reviewed the original Chime game way back in 2011 on the PS3, and even then it was a \u201cSuper Deluxe\u201d version.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 This \u201cSharp\u201d version adds some new challenging gameplay modes.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for download on PS4 and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here<\/p>\n

Just like any other good puzzler, Chime Sharp is easy to learn but hard to master. You must rotate and place shaped blocks onto a grid playfield. When a 3\u00d73 square or larger is made, it\u2019ll be ready to clear. Before it does, a meter will fill up in the square, which gives you an opportunity to build onto it for more points. Make adjacent squares to increase your combo score, too.<\/p>\n

Just like Lumines, a line goes from left to right over the playfield. When it passes over the 3\u00d73 or larger squares that you\u2019ve made, they\u2019ll disappear. Underneath where the disappeared square was, the tiles will change color. If you can change 60 percent of the tiles on screen, you\u2019ll unlock new gameplay modes.\u00a0 One difference between this and Chime Super Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> is that in the old game, if you got 50 percent, you\u2019d move onto the next level.\u00a0 Here you just keep playing the same level until your time runs out.\u00a0 Although I don\u2019t completely understand how the time limit works.\u00a0 I think it goes up when you clear squares, but sometimes it still ran out for me.<\/p>\n

Other modes you unlock include Sharp Mode, hence the name of the game.\u00a0 In the regular mode, if you don\u2019t make squares out of the blocks, they\u2019ll disappear after a while.\u00a0 But in Sharp Mode, if you let a block disappear, you\u2019ll lose a life, and you get ten lives in all.\u00a0 So you have to be sharp (sorry).\u00a0 Other modes include Strike and Challenge Modes, but I couldn\u2019t unlock them because the game is so tough!\u00a0 I guess that\u2019s the one problem I had with this game was the high challenge level.\u00a0 Definitely for Chime experts only.<\/p>\n

The songs in the game are mostly techno electronic stuff.\u00a0 Some are pretty catchy if you like that sort of thing.\u00a0 There are 12 songs to unlock in all, which are pretty easy to unlock by just playing levels.\u00a0 \u00a0Aside from the high challenge, Chime Sharp is a worthy download if you enjoy puzzlers like Lumines, Tetris, or Loopz (anyone remember that one?).<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the menus, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers might get frustrated at the high challenge, but there is always the more casual practice mode.\u00a0 Chime Sharp is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chime Sharp is a block puzzle challenge that\u2019ll please fans of games like Tetris and Lumines. I actually reviewed the original Chime game way back in 2011 on the PS3, and even then it was a \u201cSuper Deluxe\u201d version.\u00a0 This \u201cSharp\u201d version adds some new challenging gameplay modes.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for download on PS4 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16245,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}