Crystal Mines

Platforms: Nintendo DS

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How it feels

Futuristic mining robot game where you blast through underground caverns filled with crystals, monsters, and hazards.

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About

Crystal mines DS is a game set in the distant future on a far-away planet where underneath the ground lies mines filled with crystals, monsters, rocks, black holes, lava, slime and cave-ins that will test your skills... You have decided to build your own mining robot to get the crystal riches that lay beneath the soil. You control your mining robot but using the keypad or (3DS: Also the Thumb Stick) and shoot blasts with your robots built in blaster that has unlimited reserve of energy using the A button and place explosives that you may find and collect in the mines using the B button. Along your adventure you will find many traps and hazardous objects that will require you too think twice before moving another inch... You will come across certain upgrades such as more powerful blaster shots or energy shields that will protect you from certain nasty’s. Also as you mine through the underground cavern you will encounter strange rock like creatures that not all will go down with a blaster bolt some require real strategy and complex thinking. Crystal Mines DS contains over 300 levels with bonus and secret levels to mine through and will really test you quick thinking, reflexes, intelligence and thumb power... Will you mine the last level???

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