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Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Scroll down for our Kid Factor. Mercury Meltdown is hardcore. Do you like screaming? Is a sharp increase in your blood pressure worth the enormous challenge? Here's Mercury Meltdown. What kind of puzzler is it? Remember Marble Madness? Monkey Ball? How about going way back to the wooden game Labyrinth? That wooden maze game where you tilt the board and guide a marble away from holes? Mercury is like that. But instead of holes and dials with which to tilt the board, you have to use the tiny and imprecise PSP stick (or the direction controls) to control your progress and instead of a monkey, you're controlling a pile of slippery goo. I've got to give credit to the development team. The mercury in question, and the game itself, is startlingly beautiful. I'd love to see this game on a big screen. The mercury shimmers silver as it slip-slides around and when it changes color, it's vibrant and memorable. The look of the game and the various boards is as tranquil as the excellent soundtrack and that helps a lot when you die ﾖ again and again ﾖ in this game's many perils and pitfalls. The game does feature an excellent camera system, but that doesn't prevent a few too many "deaths" due to unseen hazard while you're adjusting the camera. The good news is that the level design ranges from decent to excellent and the game offers a completely unique handheld experience. Serious puzzle game fans are going to eat this one up with a spoon I think. 
Nope, nothing offensive here. If anything the game might be too difficult, too abstract, too bizarre or maybe just too complicated and frustrating to younger kids. But if you have a patient and co-ordinated child who is clever and a good problem solver ... good luck getting them to stop playing this addictive puzzler. Really, just like I think it's a shame more of you aren't playing games like this. It's even worse that most kids don't play them either.
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