Roogoo arrived on the Xbox Live Arcade earlier this year, bringing with it challenging puzzle gameplay with a twist. Players guided different shapes down through layers of rotating disks in a roundabout way of saving the Roogoo race. IGN gave the game an 8.5. Now it is coming to both the Wii and Nintendo DS with added features that take advantage of each system's unique capabilities. IGN recently spent some time with both versions and came away impressed with the amount of effort developer Spidermonk is putting into the Nintendo editions.
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Roogoo: Twisted Towers has all the elements a good puzzler should have – building huge stacks of shapes can be fun and moving the platforms so as to have items fall correctly and adding various traps and pitfalls along the way to make things that much more difficult are great building blocks on which to put a game. However, between a camera which hurts more than it helps, a control scheme which doesn't feel natural, and not giving the player full control of the platforms, the game simply has too many stumbling blocks to ever truly be enjoyable.
Gamertell has posted a negative review of SouthPeak Game's Roogoo: Twisted Towers for Wii.
From the review:
"Roogoo: Twisted Towers has its moments, but it doesn't have much staying power. It doesn't offer sufficient challenge, the multiplayer modes, though varied, are only adequate and can't compare to the PC or Xbox Live Arcade versions. It seems as though the game was dumbed down for the Wii audience. Younger players will likely enjoy it, but players over the age of 13 will eventually find themselves wanting more."
