Nintendo DS

Meteos

Description

Designed by Masahiro Sakurai and produced by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Meteos was the DS's second big-name puzzle game (after Polarium).

Most of the game's action takes place on the bottom of the DS's two screens, where colored meteors plummet downwards towards a planet's atmosphere. There, they form columns that the user can manipulate with either the stylus or a combination of the D-pad and A button. When three or more meteors of the same color are arranged either vertically or horizontally, they "ignite" and rocket up towards the top screen. Rockets carry upwards any other metors that happen to be above them, and by stringing together several ignitions it is possible to lift many blocks at once. The ultimate objective of the game is to lift as many metors as possible back into "orbit" in the top screen; the game is over if the bottom screen fills up completely with meteors. Meteos features many different "planets" that the user can play on, each with subtle variations (such as in gravity) that affect gameplay.

Alternate Titles

• "陨石大战" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
• "メテオス" -- Japanese Spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Genre: Falling block puzzle
• Genre: Tile matching puzzle (creation)
• Middleware: CRI

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The Press Says

GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	Jul 01, 2005	10 out of 10	100
G4 TV: X-Play	Aug 17, 2005		100
Sliced Gaming (GameBiz)	Feb 06, 2006	9.5 out of 10	95
4Players.de	Jul 19, 2005	90 out of 100	90
PAL Gaming Network (PALGN)	Sep 24, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Mygamer.com	Oct 20, 2005	8.8 out of 10	88
Gamesmania	Oct 18, 2005	85 out of 100	85
Nintendo Spin	Aug 17, 2005	8 out of 10	80
Gamestyle	Aug 08, 2006	8 out of 10	80
HonestGamers	Mar 28, 2005	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi claimed to have been inspired by a myriad of pop culture monoliths during the game's production, including the television program "24" and the classic arcade game Missile Command.