Zenses Ocean DS: Video Game Preview

Ashley Gray
Zenses Ocean
Publisher: Game Factory
Developer: Shin'En
Genre: Puzzle
ESRB: Everyone
Platform: Nintendo DS
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So many puzzle games have been criticized for being nothing but dull, so it's unusual to find a game that's actually good quality. The developer behind Zenses Ocean might not be trying to exactly go that far with its new puzzle game, but it is trying to build a relaxing atmosphere aiming to help you cool off at the end of a hard day's work. While Zenses Ocean is aimed for the casual girl gamer, it can appeal to anyone at any age if given a chance.

Zenses Ocean features six types of mini games in its various puzzles. Different types you can solve our currently working under to be determined names for what they will be called. Pearl died, turtle turn, shelved oral, and hotspot are just a few of the names possibly being given to the games you find. Hotspot bears a obvious resemblance to ocean games and art projects known as electro-plankton and some others on portable systems. Anytime you see a hurt organism inside the ocean, you have to immediately turn the lens and antennae so that they're going in the correct direction. Then you snap them into the right order. One of these games isn't it just a pattern of dark turtle shells against light shelves and you have to match the collection of all the same colors. The colors are changed by choosing a shell which adjusted and all relative shells of opposite colors. You find a concentric, whirling set of rings made up of outlines in shelved oral, we have to take a group of shells that appear one at a time and try to order them in the vacant spaces of matching types. And lastly, pearl dive gives you a collection of gems on your screen and has you build shapes up as similarly colored pearls.

If these puzzles sound like they're easy to do, it's because they are. This game is intended to relax and will not have you building any stress over the answer. But, there is actually a gauge that tells you how intense the game is getting then you can alter it before each game to control how much difficulty collection to be encountering. This will in turn affect all the different factors as the number of things that appear on your screen and the amount of time you have to resolve the puzzles.

As far as graphics go, Zenses Ocean contains a pretty bare graphic user interface and a few ocean backgrounds to work well with the puzzle elements in the foreground. Things like beaches whirlpools and ocean fish can be seen in the city and in the ways, and almost look like something you'd see on computer. But the most shining part of the game is the economy and zen-like music and will certainly calm your soul and your senses.

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