If you are a good graphics lover, then this game probably isn’t for you. The graphics I can only compare to chuckie egg, a game I used to play with a friend when I was young.
Basically, the general gist of the game - you enter the game, and in the arena are some tadpoles wandering around. Your job is to guide them to the other side of the screen, but this isn’t as simple as it first seems. You must train the tadpoles to get to the other side, but rewarding them when they move in a certain direction.
After a while, they will get the hang of it and start moving in the right direction. Far as I can tell, there isn’t any particular story I can see, but these games can get kind of addictive!
The only thing that you actually control is the snake (for those of you slightly confused about what is the actual snake, it’s the little squiggly line that moves when you press buttons =p). I also found out that you can set the tadpoles to evolve, and if you choose to have the sound on, they make rather odd noises when they bump into each other, or the snake.
The controls are fairly simple - press the correct button when the tadpole goes in a certain direction.
This can get slightly more tricky (well, I say slightly) when the amount of tadpoles on each team starts to increase, it gets harder to keep track of things, so I would say an active brain is helpful. Watch out for the turtles - if the tadpole hits them they go back to the middle of the screen! Lucky for us though, they don’t actually move, and even if they did move they would move very slowly I reckon, being turtles and all. Well, avoid them anyway.
I’m fairly sure you don’t progress on levels – it’s more trying to beat your own score, or someone else's if you prefer, and then just gradually increasing the amount of tadpoles. It helped me by gradually increasing the numbers, gave my brain a bit of time to adjust to what was going on so it didn’t explode. So unless you consider yourself a very organized and quick person, take it slowly, don’t dive in the deep end!
