Numblast is a puzzle developed by SCE Japan Studio, released 18 June 2009 on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Android.
What Numblast is
Numblast is a puzzle game developed by SCE Japan Studio and released in 2009. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Android.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Numblast is a colourful puzzle game which follows the tale of Japanese university students Aoyama and Akasaka. After an experiment with mysterious cubic artefacts, Aoyama accidently triggers a magic explosion that turns his colleague Akasaka into a monkey. You have to help Aoyama return his friend back to human form by solving the puzzles of Numblast. By swapping the position of the numbered cubes on a grid and creating a combination of four identical numbers in a two-by-two square, you can cause the cubes to explode. If you form longer and more complex combos the explosions become even bigger, giving you the chance of wiping out the whole board with a single combo chain - and bringing you…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Numblast holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Numblast launched on 18 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine and The Sims 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine, The Sims 3.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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