Not content to give you one look and stick with it, the color palette and design of the game changes as you score points. Honestly, this is one of the best looking Minis on the market, and that is because this game has some serious style. That isn’t to imply that the game looks bad, or even dated. Everything is made out of large pixels, including your character, a wonky looking cat with a huge grin. Any port that adds new, quality content deserves to be rewarded.Īs you can probably surmise from the title, this is a game that love its pixels. I can’t give this section anything less than high marks. Each mode plays different and offers a fun experience. For a Mini, having all these different ways to play is pretty rare.
Honestly, these modes take full advantage of the game’s play style.
You can turn off the music and/or the sound effects, view the credits, look at high scores, and view a quick guide to clue you in on how to handle each mode. Both of these have time limits.īeyond that, you have some basic options. Arcade Mode gives you one pass at this while Puzzle Mode gives you infinite passes, but you can’t move on to the next bit until you’ve gotten all of the tokens. When you reach a wall, you’ll turn around and do the opposite. In this mode, you move from left to right grabbing sun tokens and avoiding moon tokens. The PSP version of Pix’N Love Rush contains both of these modes as well as another new mode. There are five stages here, aptly titled “hard, harder, hardcore, hardcorer, and hardcorest.” Your score is kept as a percentage meter, with the goal of getting one hundred percent.
That may seem easy, but these jumps are treacherous and require timing and reflexes. Instead, your character automatically moves forward and all you have to do is jump. Here, you don’t have to worry about collecting points or health bars. This edition contained extra skins (more on those in a bit) and also a new mode. The game was later re-released as a special edition. You never know exactly what you’ll do from one level to the next, but you know it will involve jumping and shooting. The way these levels come at you is akin to something like Warioware. In both cases, you’re given a mostly random series of micro levels to complete in which you try to maximize your score by earning combo rewards and avoiding damage. The two variants were one with a five minute time limit, and one with infinite time. When the game was first launched on the iPhone, it had one mode with two variants. As you’ll you soon see in this review, Pix’N Love Rush is the definitive version of the game and is easily one of the best Minis I’ve played. Give us PSN users a reason to care about your game. Take a critically acclaimed game, add a new feature or two, and put it up as a Mini. However, for every Twin Blades, there is a diamond in the rough like Pix’N Love Rush.
The only plus that most could come up with is that people with a PSP and without a iPhone would be able to play some otherwise exclusive games. These games often don’t add anything new and cost more money. That might not seem like such a boon at first. You see, the PSP Minis section of the PSN store has been lighting up as of late thanks to developers porting over iPhone games. While many would claim that the rise of the iPhone has been thorn in the PSP’s side since it came out, the reality is that in some ways it has provided a boon.