Starsweep: A Simple Pleasure

Lets Talk about Starsweep. I first played it on my Playstation One, and it was re-released on the Playstation Network. A small, short game, but rather fun. Its a simple game for when you just want to play a puzzle game. The story is brief, but the character designs have a lot of work. Nine stages, two "battles" each, except for the first one-where your player character originates from, a Psuedo Greece. The music is catchy and the game play is fairly simple and fun to learn.

Also its worth noting like all puzzle games it has different modes. Anyway, as I said, its a simple puzzle game and very straight forward, so now I can get onto the scoring.

Game Play: 2 out of 2. Though, to be fair, it's really hard to mess up controls in block drop puzzle games. Not impossible-but difficult.

Story: 1 out of 2. It's a simple puzzle game, so it didn't do a lot of focus here, and that's expected.

Graphics: 2 out of 2. They're simple, a combined effect of pixelated sprite icons throwing the blocks, and more detailed anime character art. It's 2D, but it's still very pretty.

Music: 1 out of 2. While the music is catchy, if you wind up replaying a level a lot because of difficulty, it will make you grate your teeth.

Bonus: 2 out of 2. The game was released in 1997, and the main quest follows a female protagonist. Outside Barbie, Samus Aran, and Lara Croft, there still aren't a lot of those in comparison to male. Additionally, given the simplicity of the puzzle game, there was a lot of thought put into a wide selection of characters that you would encounter.

2+1+2+1+2=8

Starsweep walks away from Spryte Bytes with an 8 out of 10 score, which isn't half bad for a puzzle game. I would definitely suggest availing yourself either on the Vita or PS3-I'm not sure if it's PS4 compatible as I have not tried.