Fun game, but at level 8, the wonky bounding angles make getting the one bomb medal a pain in the ass.
Reviews for "Explode"
Nice idea but with some annoying issues.
Firstly, as with pretty much all puzzle games the [R] key should restart the current level. It's just downright frustrating to have to [ESC] to the main menu and select the same level again.
Secondly and more importantly, some of the angles of some of the bounces are, well... completely wrong. As in this screenshot I took of level 8 (I hope NG allows linking to external images) - http://i.imgur.com/6A1x0.jpg
Not too bad overall. Though it is way too short. Once you've got the game built, adding levels and the like would seem to be the easier part. (Plus you could even have some levels that have areas where you can't place bombs/need to blast a bomb into with another bomb).
My biggest complaint is the fact that the balls would ricochet at strange and unpredictable angles. So getting one of the low bounce Pars seems impossible at the later levels. Specifically on level 8, I have had the balls hit the wall with a downward angle and then bounce upwards, which takes away the skill of the game if you can't predict the bounces.
Very short, very easy. But hey! Who ever said a game has to be long and hard to be good? The only thing that has to be long and hard to be any good is... hrm. Let's not go that way.
Good game but: way to short, I beat it in a couple of minutes and seeing the other comments so did many others. all of the levels are so straight forward. there is no thinking involved, just trying not to missclick, which is really the main reason you got 3.5/3. Hope for a second explode nevertheless