Review: Biniax
Score:
75%
Version Reviewed: 1.15
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There are times when what you want in a game is a bundle of massive plot lines, ongoing game play, full screen videos, voice actors and the complexity of the Space Shuttle. But, conversely, there are also times where you just want to start something, get straight to the game, play for a few minutes and then switch back to real life. Biniax gives you the latter.
Let's glance at the screenshot, because that tells you everything you need to know. You can move the single coloured block around the screen. Touch your coloured block to a domino that has the same colour, and it disappears. At the same time your coloured block changes to the second colour on the domino, and away you go again, to find another domino with the new colour, etc, etc, etc.
It’s a simple principle, and the gotcha, as always, is the advancing dominoes. They slowly march towards the bottom of the screen and if they reach the bottom, then it’s game over. There is another way to die, and it’s very subtle. You can easily get to a point where you have, for example, your single block being yellow, and you can’t get to any yellow dominos because your blocked by all the other different colours. Frustrating? Yes. Addictive? You bet.
Biniax is purely a burst of logical adrenaline, and when that’s what your craving is, then you need to serve it. No matter that it’s a generic java midlet, no matter that it’s freeware, no matter any of this. It’s a tiny download and it deserves to be on your device.
It’s also, scarily, pretty original for a puzzle game.
Reviewed by Ewan Spence at