Fish Tank (video game)
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| Developer(s) | iFun4all |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, WiiWare |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle video game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Fish Tank is is combination of popular Match 3 genre with arcade puzzle games. It’s an arcade-style matching game from iFun4all. However, instead of matching gems or blocks, you are matching colors of fish. It's kind of combining traditional match-three gameplay with reflex-based mechanics.[1]
Key features of the game include: -24 levels -3 difficulty settings -survival game mode -9 types of bonuses to earn -challenging difficulty curve balanced for both casuals and hardcore Match 3 fans
Gameplay
Different colors of fish swim from the left-hand side of the screen to a 5×8 grid on the right-hand side of the screen.[2] You control their up and down movement and guide them into rows. Unlike most of these games, the matched groups don’t automatically vanish when you reach the minimum number in a row. You need to do it manually by pressing a button (X for the first, O for the second, Triangle for the third), which gets superimposed over the group of matches. So there is a good deal of strategy as to when player should cash in your matched fish. The bigger the group, the more points it is worth, and player also get more points if you cash in more than one group at a time. Also complicating matters is a large number of power-ups. These drift along like the fish, and you play them by hitting the L button. [3] The game is over when a certain number of fish has been killed.[4] This dire event happens when a fish enters a row that is already full of fish. The new fish takes the leftmost spot and pushes all the other fish in the row one spot to the right. The fish already all the way to the right gets killed most horribly, in an explosion of gore—a splotch of red and its skeleton drifting away. A sure way to give children nightmares, because the fish are so cute.
There are two modes of play (arcade mode and challenge mode), each with three different difficulty settings, easy, medium, and hard. Play is kind of like a survival mode, choose the desired difficulty level, and try to get as many points as possible without dying. The second mode is composed of 24 different levels, each one harder than the next, with a specific amount of points that need to be acquired in order to complete them. One is more suited for casual players, while the other offers a level of depth that more experienced gamers can appreciate. [3]
Anyway, in both cases player keeps playing until a certain amount of fish is killed, but arcade mode has no goals (other than a high score), while challenge mode does—generally to reach a given score with certain factors. For instance, no power-ups, or the fish moving very slowly or quickly. Or not even allowing a single fish to die. There are 24 different challenges, and in each one player can win a different medal, depending on final score. [3]
Music and graphics
The sound effects are minimal, it's a kind of calming background music. Sound effects include some popping sounds, whooshing water, and the like. This is a puzzle game, so there is really only one environment in the game, and that is the sea. There are around eight or so different fish. Fish eliminated from a tornado and fish eaten by a shark disappear.
External links
- ^ Andrew Yoon. "Fish Tank is a fish matching psp mini". Retrieved 18.08.10.
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