GEM SMASHERS
Company: Red Wagon Games
Release: November 1, 2011
ESRB: E (Comic Mischief)
April 24, 2012

This quite colorful game is much like the 2007 GBA game M&Ms: Break 'Em, in which
your character is bouncing along an area hitting blocks that are the same color
as your character, and there are different block colors as well as things that change
the color of your character. The enemies come in the form of deadly blocks, which
with one touch you die. They are black with a skull and crossbones and, as far as
I know, no way to get rid of them, so avoiding them is your best bet. All my time
with this game so far was spent in the "Color-cade" mode, a mode in which you play
until you die a certain amount of times, which lives are displayed by the heart
number. In Color-cade mode, you can get extra lives, but they are rare. A level is
cleared when you smash all the blocks and get to the door where you started from.
If you touch an enemy block, you start back at said door and your original color.
As for difficulty, don't let the packaging or graphics fool you, it gets hard starting
 at aboutlevel 5 in color-cade mode. In terms of gameplay, this is a fun little game
in short spurts, but I wouldn't find myself playing it for hours on end.
rating: 7/10