Gamezebo: Yosumin Review
Gamezebo writes: "Square Enix’s Yosumin! began life in 2006 as a Web-based game in Japan that ran in Internet browsers. A year later an enhanced version was released for the Nintendo DS – again, only in Japan. But now this simple but addictive puzzler has finally been published in North America through several casual games portals.
There’s no real narrative in Yosumin!, just a rapid succession of hundreds of stages-some of which are as short as a few seconds and others of which can stump players for half an hour or more-and a healthy helping of cutesy Japanese design (we’re talking bright pink loading screens, kitschy emoticon-style playing pieces, and feverish music that could have been pilfered from a TV game show).
The object of each stage is to satisfy a set of target objectives before a timer bar runs out. That usually means clearing certain kinds or configurations of Yosumin-the name given the smiling playing pieces that appear in the game’s square, black play area."
