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From a relatively early stage, you are expected to split the mercury in two, before dyeing each section a different hue and combining them again to form a new shade. Passing through various ‘paint shops’ that dye your blob one of the three primary colours, allows you to pass through colour-coded gates and force fields. Initially you will probably cruise through the first few levels, but progressing into the later laboratories you will likely have to miss some out, returning with your skills honed and your knowledge of the various trip falls and mechanisms expanded.īeyond the basic moving blocks, conveyer belts and crumbling surfaces that are to be expected, there are around 40 other obstacle types, from rather uninspired enemies that harass and consume you, to the inventive colour-mixing puzzles that are a mainstay throughout Revolution. Each of these labs contains 16 levels, meaning that you get plenty of puzzling for your money. In the main game, after a brief tutorial made rather unnecessary by Mercury’s instinctive nature, you are introduced to the first of the eight laboratories. Excite Truck has already proved the degree of precision and accuracy this ‘stance’ provides, but Mercury Meltdown Revolution makes it its own, giving you an unrivalled sensation of control. Instead, Revolution takes the ingenious step of turning the Wii controller on its side, meaning it has to be held with two hands.

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The most obvious way to apply Mercury to the Wii would have been to follow in the footsteps of the other ‘ball in a tray’ Wii titles, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz and Kororinpa, which require the player to hold the Wii-mote in one hand like a TV remote. Dozens of obstacles and ingenious contraptions are in place to make this simple task a little harder, including those that reverse gravity, or require you to split your blob into three to reach several goals simultaneously. This is done not by directly controlling the mercury, but through gently tipping the maze and letting gravity take effect on the elemental globule. At a most basic level, the challenge is to guide a blob of the viscous metal of the game’s title through a maze from beginning to end, within a time limit and while keeping a set percentage of your blob from falling into the abyss below each stage.

With its motion sensitivity and wireless control, Nintendo’s little white box is the perfect home for Awesome’s liquid metal maze game.įor those who are unaware of the central premise of the Mercury titles, it is a fairly simple one that is reworked again and again, to create a mixed and substantial puzzle game. The game’s developers must have had their eye on the Wii since the moment the console’s control system was announced. That isn’t to say that Mercury has fared badly, but it deserves to have done incredibly well.

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Since then the series has stayed on consistently good form, appearing across the Sony formats, despite missing out on the huge commercial success it deserves.

When the add-on was scrapped, developer Awesome Studios pressed on with making the game, undeterred and obviously aware that they were producing something worth standing by.

MERCURY MELTDOWN REVOLUTION WII REVIEW PSP

When the first of the Mercury games was conceived, it was designed with a PSP tilt sensor in mind.

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