Of all the games on Spogg.com I’ve probably spent the most time in Ooze. A casual bubble popping game, it’s one of the most diverse games of its kind I’ve ever run into. By diverse I mean it brings out a lot of different versions of the gamer that I am with all the different ways to play it.
You see, Ooze can be played easy, medium, or hard. In Hard you are set up against a group of other Ooze players; much like you are in medium and easy but here you can inflict them with your own bubbles when you pop so many. This encourages players to be a little more competitive and it strikes up some interestingly aggressive, but still playful, conversation. At the same time, the easy option allows you to simply play the game and compare your score with other players at the end of the round. I, personally, spent the most time in the medium aspect of the game. In medium you pretty much play the same as you would in easy (without all the competition) but you move at a much more demanding speed, therefore you are challenged more and you typically end up with a higher score at the end…if you can keep up.
I’m not entirely certain if it’s because it’s the game that I spent the most time on or because Ooze is a particularly fun and easy game to master but this is the first one where I actually managed to reach a few of the mastery goals without even trying. They just sort of came the more I played which was extremely nice and rewarding. Still, the best part of Ooze has to be the fact that it was so relaxing. Granted, it can be a little stressful when you play it on Hard, but maybe that’s just because I’m an insane person who must, at all times, be the best at everything…yeah, that’s probably it. While playing on easy the game is slow yet rewarding, challenging but not yet frustrating. It’s all about the score and if you don’t manage to pop enough bubbles and your lines make it all the way to the top all you really miss out on is time and anything you would have gotten in that stack if you had been fast enough. There’s no game over, no real loss: it’s just your score that suffers.
This is a game anyone can play.
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