Mr. Driller is a pretty entertaining puzzle game, and is well worth a download. The basic idea is that your world has been overrun by brightly colored blocks, and you have to plug away with your drill until you’ve made your way through them to get to the end of the levels.
It’s a pretty darn simple concept, and it’s wonderfully ridiculous. The mechanics bare some resemblance to games like Tetris or bust-a-move. When you drill through a block it is destroyed, and by drilling through blocks that work as supports for other blocks these blocks then fall onto the nearest surface.
Mr. Driller is a pretty entertaining puzzle game, and is well worth a download. The basic idea is that your world has been overrun by brightly colored blocks, and you have to plug away with your drill until you’ve made your way through them to get to the end of the levels.
It’s a pretty darn simple concept, and it’s wonderfully ridiculous. The mechanics bare some resemblance to games like Tetris or bust-a-move. When you drill through a block it is destroyed, and by drilling through blocks that work as supports for other blocks these blocks then fall onto the nearest surface. When a block falls to rest on a block of the same color as itself, both blocks are destroyed. Stringing along multiple destructions is good
fun and makes the game tricky and engaging. Things become a little more complicated as drilling through certain blocks will deplete your air supply, forcing you to forage further for the tiny air capsules you must find in order to survive.
While the game does require some thought, particularly in the more challenging levels, it is a very simple puzzler, but then they are always the best ones anyway. In the graphics department it is probably a matter of taste, and while some may well be put off by the super bright world that is literally jammed full of multi-color blocks and the cutesy (awwww) drill wielding hero, other’s will love it for it’s charm and generally very Japanese feel.
It’s hardly the most demanding of games, being 2D and very simply presented, but it’s not the sort of game where you need everything to be glorious to look at. Most of these puzzle games have terrible 3D sequels so you’d be hard pushed to disagree with the choice of perspective. The game is pretty much functional in all of the aspects generally associated with presentation. The menus are fairly simple and unadventurous, but again, you don’t need them to be anything else. Oh, and the music is pretty damn funny in a great way, though I doubt that’s really going to be what anyone’s looking for in the game.
Mr. Driller is a fun game, great for a quick blast every now and again, and a very worthy download. I suggest giving it a try without expecting too much from it for the most pleasing results. It’s the sort of game I’d happily give 8 out of 10, and I find it hard to believe that anyone could seriously dislike the game. It ticks all the boxes a puzzler should: it’s fun, simple, and pretty challenging. You can’t go wrong with Mr. Driller.
