JellyBalls

JellyBalls by [HyperBees Ltd.] is one of the most beautiful puzzle games I have ever seen. When I first saw the icon of this game, I thought “Another match the colored balls game, huh…”. Once I actually started playing, my opinion about this game instantly flipped 180°. It is still a “match the colored balls game”, but the way it’s designed makes it THE “match the colored balls puzzle”.

As you already know from the previous paragraph the aim of this game is to group balls by color so that they pop and you get points. The game offers so many ways of doing this that it never gets old. The little variations of the game are broken into two categories; arcade and logical. If you choose the arcade mode, you’ll have to deal with the clock that doesn’t allow you to sit around and think about your next move, but forces you to make instant decisions. The logical mode has no time limit, so you can plan your next move carefully in order to get the maximum amount of points and be able to advance to the next level. I like to play the arcade mode because it is more extreme (as far as extreme puzzles go) and that makes it more fun.

The game is full of little animations like the floating bubbles in the background of the menu, the dissolving points that appear for a short while after you’ve popped a few balls and so on. All these little details make the game very enjoyable. The music and the changing background colors are so relaxing that if I was a girl I would take a bubble bath with candles and play this game.

Something I haven’t seen before in this type of games is the option to change the gravity, meaning that if you want the balls to fall in a different direction at any point during gameplay, you just flip your phone and play in landscape mode. This is cool, but too advanced for me.

You can create a Scoreloop profile that will not only enable you to submit your score to online highscores but also give you the ability to add friends. Beautiful graphics, great sounds, nice little animations, many ways of playing the game and many other well thought out details make JellyBalls a flawless puzzle game absolutely worth more than the £0.99 (~$1.56) you can get it for on the Android Market.