Underplayed Gems

Puzzle Star Sweep (1997)

Puzzle Star Sweep cover
Developer
Axela
Publisher
A1 Games, Namco, Sony Computer Entertainment, Midas Interactive Entertainment
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Genres
Puzzle
Rating
2.5 of 5, 2 player ratings

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How it feels

A deliberate and colorful block-matching puzzler where you carefully position a cursor to chain star connections as the field steadily rises beneath you.

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About

PlayStation Port of Star Sweep. In this vaguely Tetris-like game, players score points by eliminating "star blocks." A star block is a colored rectangle with a star on one end of it, and blocks are eliminated when the stars of two like-colored blocks touch each other. While the game is being played, star blocks and obstacles rise from the bottom of the screen while the player moves and rotates a cursor which determines where additional star blocks will be thrown into play from off-screen. The game features single-player and competitive play as well as a story mode featuring boss creatures and a bizarre plot -- apparently the whole game is actually a sport in which children poke a creature known as a star pig with sticks in order to make it vomit star blocks

Screenshots

Puzzle Star Sweep screenshot 1Puzzle Star Sweep screenshot 2Puzzle Star Sweep screenshot 3

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