Hexcells Complete Pack (PC) Review
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System PC
Developer Matthew Brown Publisher Matthew Brown Genre Puzzle # of Players 1 Release Date September 1st, 2014 |
Pros
Three solid puzzle games Later stages provide a decent challenge Cons Little reason to go back to completed stages |
Review
by Thonos
2/12/2016
Hexcells Complete Pack contains Hexcells, Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite. All three games play the same but have different challenges and additions that make them different. I consider Hexcells to be a modified version of Minesweeper. The goal of Hexcells is to clear all of the yellow hexes on the screen, revealing all of the blue hexes while not making any errors if possible. I tried these games out thinking I was not going to like them very much and ended up enjoying them instead.
A basic stage in Hexcells is pretty straight forward. There are three types of hexes, yellow ones which are uncovered, blue ones which are what you are looking for and black ones with white numbers which tell you how many blue hexes are touching them. You keep uncovering hexes until you cleared all of the yellow hexes on the stage. Based off of how many mistakes you make you get a number of points towards your total. Once you accumulate so many points you unlock the next grouping of stages. As you progress the game gets more challenging with numbers inside of brackets, numbers inside of blue hexes and numbers outside of hexes. Eventually you get black hexes with a ? inside of it. The game does a good job of explaining what all of these mechanics mean and they do add some challenge to the later stages of the game,
Graphically there is not much to Hexcells. The game has simple graphics and that is all this game needs. The game music and effects were overall alright. Even though I got used to them, it was nice that there was an option to turn them off. Games like this do not need big graphics or flashy sounds, what this game uses works well for it.
I only had two issues with the Hexcell games. First off is that once you beat all of the stages there is little reason to go back to them again. Hexcells Infinite fixes this problem by adding in a random stage generator. The other problem I had was that certain times I just had to guess which one was the blue tile so I could go forward. Not a big deal, but was still annoying when I am going for no mistakes and I get one near the end of a stage due to the fact there was no indicator where the next blue tile would be at. Overall these are minor complaints.
I found Hexcells Complete pack to be fun and enjoyable. While the first two games are basically the same, Hexcells Infinite refines the game menu, options and most importantly adds a random stage generator to give you infinite challenges. While all three games are worth it, if you only want one go for Infinite.
by Thonos
2/12/2016
Hexcells Complete Pack contains Hexcells, Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite. All three games play the same but have different challenges and additions that make them different. I consider Hexcells to be a modified version of Minesweeper. The goal of Hexcells is to clear all of the yellow hexes on the screen, revealing all of the blue hexes while not making any errors if possible. I tried these games out thinking I was not going to like them very much and ended up enjoying them instead.
A basic stage in Hexcells is pretty straight forward. There are three types of hexes, yellow ones which are uncovered, blue ones which are what you are looking for and black ones with white numbers which tell you how many blue hexes are touching them. You keep uncovering hexes until you cleared all of the yellow hexes on the stage. Based off of how many mistakes you make you get a number of points towards your total. Once you accumulate so many points you unlock the next grouping of stages. As you progress the game gets more challenging with numbers inside of brackets, numbers inside of blue hexes and numbers outside of hexes. Eventually you get black hexes with a ? inside of it. The game does a good job of explaining what all of these mechanics mean and they do add some challenge to the later stages of the game,
Graphically there is not much to Hexcells. The game has simple graphics and that is all this game needs. The game music and effects were overall alright. Even though I got used to them, it was nice that there was an option to turn them off. Games like this do not need big graphics or flashy sounds, what this game uses works well for it.
I only had two issues with the Hexcell games. First off is that once you beat all of the stages there is little reason to go back to them again. Hexcells Infinite fixes this problem by adding in a random stage generator. The other problem I had was that certain times I just had to guess which one was the blue tile so I could go forward. Not a big deal, but was still annoying when I am going for no mistakes and I get one near the end of a stage due to the fact there was no indicator where the next blue tile would be at. Overall these are minor complaints.
I found Hexcells Complete pack to be fun and enjoyable. While the first two games are basically the same, Hexcells Infinite refines the game menu, options and most importantly adds a random stage generator to give you infinite challenges. While all three games are worth it, if you only want one go for Infinite.