Launching on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 24th December is Kolumno, a simple yet challenging puzzle game.
As you can see from the trailer above, the idea itself is pretty straightforward – players must wait for the right moment before making a ball fall through a series of intricate moving columns. There's more to it than that, though, as you'll also have to stop the ball mid-air, drop it at high-speed, reduce its size, or break the column's rings as it falls, all while trying to figure out the correct method.
Perhaps the biggest selling point, however, is the price. It's launching on the eShop for just $1.99 / £1.79, making it an ideal little distraction on Christmas Eve. If you're the sort who can't wait for Christmas Day to roll around, why not load this up and see how far you can get?
Kolumno Features:
- 4 different items that give great depth to the puzzles.
- 75 levels full of challenges.
- Elegant graphics and sound.
- Easy to control, difficult to master.
Thinking of giving this one a go? Even if you're not celebrating Christmas, a distraction from world events is always welcome at the moment, huh?
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First I must get it
Mobile gaming at its best.....
@Gxlcylol what on earth are you taking about.
Wiiware port?
This seems less like a game you'd buy, more like something you would do while waiting for the eShop to load on Wii U.
Whatever happened to RMCDIAX anyway?
It looks less like a simplistic artstyle, than a bad mobile game, but U just finished Mad Rat Dead, and need something else to do lol.
Hah. I like that, simple and slick and the price is right. Does have a mobile vibe, but the good kind and no ads, etc.
Speaking of mobile games, I used to play Slayin' on my phone quite a bit and wasn't sure about the Slayin' 2 sequel game that came to Switch, but it's $4 on sale right now (and we liked the demo) so I've been having a blast playing with my son. It actually made a great transition to appeal to Switch gamers with a longer progression and no mobile trappings.
If you are not familiar it's a 2D action one-screen arena game that rewards combos and precise play with an RPG-style progression. We enjoy it for the local cooperative play which works better than expected because there are two aisles (planes) to switch between so the 2-players can spread out.
@rjejr To be fair, this looks so, so, so much better than any of the RCMDIAX games — I don't want to disparage someone for trying, but they were just relentless and such low quality.
This is classy looking, sharp, and looks like thought really went into keeping it interesting and fun even if it is a smaller experience with a matching price, overall.
Man, Wiiware and then the Wii U. What a time.
(Gonna take a bit for me to respond to that larger comment, but I saw it. Did you see my Slayin' 2 post above? Seems like you have the co-op and gaming hours covered maybe, but I don't break my backlog for many games and I'm enjoying that one.)
Or if you have a rubix cube laying around the house, I know thats what I'm doing.
@aaronsullivan Thanks for the Slayin 2 info. Downloading the demo now. (thank you Nintendo website) My sons should finish HW: AoC this afternoon. My wife won't play HW: AoC w/ me but maybe I can talk her into this one. Everyone wants to play Bravely Default 2 after that demo - we're a big JRPG family. I'm currently finishing up the first DLC for The Witcher 3, still have the second to go.
Don't worry about a reply to that long last post, just catching up I think, kind of a brain dump.
We signed up for a year of Disney+ last night for $69.99 - yea no tax - b/c the future increase spooked me, no more trials, and they have a Marvel show a month to watch almost all year. And now we can catch up on all the Pixar movies we missed over he past 20 years. We're all caught up on the Marvel & Star Wars movies though we may watch Clone Wars if we can get past those awful Disney Infinity angular graphics. 😝
You and the fam do Disney+ yes? Seems like you'd find something, they have everything. Looking forward to rewatching Black Hole. Yes I know it's horrible but it's probably 1 of my earliest sci-fi theater memories. The nostalgia is real though, got a kick just going through the list - Apple Dumpling Gang, Witch Mountain, those bad Kurt Russel movies. 😂
No Neptune Factor though. I need to get on them about that. If you missed it, it's Black Hole underwater. Ernest Borgnine was in everything back then. 👍
@rjejr Just watched the trailer for the Neptune Factor. "Wherever you've been, this is where you've never been before." This trailer IS like the Black Hole trailer underwater.
@PoorGeno Black Hole '79, Neptune Factor '73. All the trailers for every movie made every movie look the same back then. I kinda miss those trailers.
My aunt used to take us to the movies a lot every summer. Saw both of those in theaters. I was 8 for Neptune Factor. So disappointed. It's 85 minutes of talking and 5 minutes of big fish right a the end. Black Hole I was 14, a lot better with the robots.
Another movie not on Disney+ I was subjected to as a child in theaters in '75 is "One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing". Everyone at Disney was smokin' the wacky weed in the '70s.
@aaronsullivan The fact that this article only has 12 posts and half of them are us makes me think nobody is interested in $2 game on their Switch but you. 😉
But that's not why I'm here. My son's played the Slaying game and said it was more fun than the never-ending HW:AoC missions they've been doing to complete the game.But it's more like a $5 game we'd buy for $1 than ad $15 game we'd buy for $5.
I hated the first level - it was boring you gotta admit - then the town and 2nd level were good, then the last boss demo kicked my butt. But thanks for the recommendation, couch co-op is few and far between.
@aaronsullivan oh I love Slayin' 2! It's a great game to play with my 5 year old. He takes the knight, while I take the mage. It's a lot of fun. In fact it's one of my most played games of 2020.
@rjejr Did you ever see "Konrad" on vhs? Here's the studio's logo and theme that way overstays its welcome. Konrad was up there with 'Return to Witch Mountain' for me as a kid. And 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People.' Konrad was about a kid made in a factory.
@PoorGeno Konrad rang no bells. Looked at it on IMDB and still no bells were rung. In my defense I started drinking heavily one night in October 1982, my best friend was lead singer in an AC-DC cover band and they played our HS homecoming night, I worked the sound board, and stopped in 1988 so all I recall of the 80's is the Mets winning the World Series in 1986.
Looking at those pics now, I do agree it does look like a 70's Disney movie, or 2000s Disney TV show. Not that I watched any of those, but for some reason I know about them. Was 1 of the Zack and Cody bros a robot? 😂
@rjejr Zack and Cody were in yogurt at the grocery store I worked at. Konrad came out in the 80's. Like when I was 3.
@rjejr
That's actually the comparison I was thinking of for Slayin' 2 (to HW BotW) even though they are obviously so different on the surface, the gameplay loop is similar. You are right about the pricing. And the Switch destination for games, no one is really looking for $2 games, it's just not as quick pick-up-and-play and then drop like a phone is, and people want those games to dedicate time to. I do think Slayin' 2 hit a nice balance there, though. It has just enough depth and strategy and involvement. It kept us coming back until Christmas interrupted.
Oh, and the demo ramps up the difficulty faster and gives you a character faster and easier so you can get a taste. The real game has the progression more smoothed out and varied and gives you more choice.
We did that promotion for 3 years on Disney+ at the start so it amounts to somewhere around $4 a month or one year free. We did the Pixar thing like you are planning and those movies are pretty timeless, but watching them night after night really reminds how you emotionally wringing they are! That and Mandalorian and the Star Wars movies and Marvel rewatches (my son) were great to have. That first year was very weird though because we were watching the last season of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD elsewhere, and had just watched the Clone Wars on Netflix, and a couple of the latest Marvel movies were alway rewatched elsewhere. It was a weird first year, but it has settled. (We really enjoyed the Mandalorian Gallery behind-the-scenes thing, but it sure made you feel how desperate they were for content. ) Getting that first year for free or playing the trial or short subscription game was the right move, I think.
On Black Hole: that movie is so dark and messed up! But it was also burned into my retinas as a kid. And that oppressive music is a classic. I had never heard of Neptune Factor or One of our Dinosaurs is Missing... I'm intrigued...
Hope you are able to relax and have some peace here at the end of 2020. Today I'm finishing up grads. Merry Christmas!
@PoorGeno "Zack and Cody were in yogurt at the grocery store I worked at."
That must have been 1 heck of a store. 🤣
@aaronsullivan Thanks, I am more relaxed now that Christmas w/ my family is over, as we were all trying our best to quarantine. 10 people from 3 families in 1 room was probably breaking some NY law. Now to just wait for a couple of weeks and fingers crossed we're all ok. No New Years plans.
My kids started Pikmin 3, the multiplayer seems to work well, then I'm hoping they have time to play Luigi's Mansion 3 before my son goes back to college, so no $5 Slayin' 2 for us.
My wife and I watched Finding Dory yesterday. It was ok, but I have no need to ever watch it again. Finding Nemo I watched a 100 times when my kids were little, Id' watch it again any day, great movie, great one-liners throughout the entire film. Much more of a comedy, Dory was dark as Black Hole. We still have a few more films to watch - Brave, Moana, Wreck-it-Ralph 2. And 4 episodes left of Mandalorian. It's as good as advertised, I'm mad now Disney decided to put Book of Boba Fett on first and make us wait for season 3. They need more than an entire year to make 8 more episodes? These 8 episode seasons are a lame joke as it is, why not put S3 on first and Boba Fett after? I'm expecting all of this years 6 episode - SIX!?!? - Marvel shows to be more like standalone movies that end in the actual movies so not worrying or wondering about season 2 for any of them. Well What If, but that's a cartoon so...
Anyway I think we'll get our $69.99 worth. Did you watch Wonder Woman 84? Reviews are mixed that I've seen, leaning towards bad. So we're skipping HBO Max until season 3 of His Dark Materials releases next year. Another year wait for another 7 or 8 episodes.
But the important thing is family time. Can't beat the family time. It'll be over before we know it.
@rjejr Yeah, Wonder Woman 1984 is really interesting. We generally enjoyed it, but some of the cheese and on-the-sleeve sentiment from the first Wonder Woman didn't quite work for me this time (I'm a fan of the original except for most of the pedestrian final battle). The 80s stuff is thick and kind of fun, but I'm not surprised the movie is polarizing. Some people just won't be able to stomach how overboard it goes (or even the core premise). Some scenes just play too long, too. Not worth paying for HBOmax yet I don't think unless you are a DC fan.
My kids were more into than I expected. My son really gets into the emotion of movies and the cheese was working on him well. What really surprised me a bit was how my teenage daughter who readily dismisses things as too cheesy seemed to be all-in. There are some head-scratching moments, where things didn't quite follow logically for me either... thing is, there is some clever, fun, and effective moments. No idea what you'll think!
I'm on the side of shorter but greater seasons. I am too old for "filler" episode — got no time for that! That's what makes it hard to go back and watch Clone Wars and though Rebels is better in many ways, it does lose the story for me, too. Not sure if you have watched Clone Wars but if you have in the past, don't miss the last season of 8 episodes. The first 4 of the 8 are okay, but the last 4 are really some of the best Star Wars.
On Finding Nemo, maybe the dark has worn off for you after so many viewings but that is one of the darkest Pixar movies! Dory doesn't try to transport you to the ocean and make you live there like Nemo does. That was pretty stunning the first time.
We are currently doing almost all the streaming The Expanse is back strong on Prime and we found that Star Trek Discovery really clicked for us, especially after the first season. So, yeah... gotta review all the subscriptions, yikes!
Sounds like you are set for gaming. We have Hyrule Warriors BotW as a Xmas gift so that is still new to us.
@aaronsullivan "pedestrian final battle"
You mean those Doom 64 graphics they spliced into the end of the movie? So bad.
But my family is very odd when it comes to comic movies. My wife and I really liked Green Lantern when it released a decade ago, and it was still good a few months ago. Well except that big head villain, he was ridiculous, but overall we liked it for a popcorn movie. Also Blake Lively. But, my wife and I disliked Captain America so much we won't let our sons watch it. And Wonder Woman was just Captain America w/ a woman.
So, I'm actually thinking WW84 could be to our liking. Not $15 worth, but I'll borrow the blu-ray from the library. Probably right before WW3 releases since that has been greenlit now.
I like shorter seasons, but 8 isn't a shorter season, it's half a season. The 1 thing all these short season shows have in common that we've watched recently - "The Boys", Titans, Doom Patrol, I think The Expanse, Mandalorian (4 eps to go) even ST Discovery I think - these short 8 episode seasons are really only half a season once you watch season 2. STD actually might have been one 13 episode season but a break halfway, making it seem like 2. And the Expanse may have ended the original arc after season 3. Haven't watched this season yet but last season was pretty bad. I'm guessing this season ends on a cliffhanger so we're waiting until next season, the last.
Mandalorian episode 1 of season 2 was not a season 2 start. I said that halfway thru the episode and my son said that's been an overall complaint of the episode. And from what I've seen on Reddit the season 2 ending is the shows new beginning.
So yeah, 8 episodes is too short for a full season story arc. 22 is too long, hard to watch TV that way. DCs Legends of Tomorrow - 1 of the best shows on TV - has been 16 for awhile. Agents of Shield also went short the last 2. I think 13-16 is what it takes. Games of Thrones was ok w/ 10, 7 and 6 were too short, and rushed. But all of the 10 were also 55 minutes, not 42.
But the worse part is the wait. Shows w/ 22 episodes take a 3 month break over summer, shows w/ 8 or 10 episodes take a year, or 2 years on HBO - waiting for Westworld season 4 forever. No reason Mandalorian season 3 couldn't be on before season 1 of Boba Fett. 8 episodes March-April, 8 episodes Oct-Nov. Or July-August, Feb-March. Should be able to make 8 episodes in 6 months.
So it's less about the 8, even though the 8 is almost ALWAYS only half of a season - and less the full year wait between seasons.
Ok, it's Monday, whatever that means in 2020, but I have to take my son to the bank to cash his gift checks. We can't get him logged into his account. My older son is all about the phone deposit. Kids these days, they'll never see inside a bank. Well once the chips get implanted. Resistance if futile.
https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/12/will-microchip-implants-be-the-next-big-thing-in-europe
@aaronsullivan Just finished watching Godzilla Singular Point on Netflix and while it may not have been the best Godzilla show it was the best theoretical mathematics show I've ever watched, I think you'd like it. Like Loki, but on coke & mushrooms. 🤔
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