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I've got the day off, and there's a long list of things I should get done. Write a few remaining Thank You notes for wedding gifts, practice playing songs for a show I've got coming up, returning rental movies that are already a week late, paint my Space Hulk figures, paint my Warmachine figures...the list goes on and on. But guess what? None of it is going to get done. Why? Because I have a new sworn enemy: Zuma, a puzzle game by PopCap. (My usual sworn enemy, John Mayer, is temporarily off the hook...only temporarily. Our rivalry will resume, and will only end with me sending him back to whatever hell he came from.)
In Zuma, you control a little frog who shoots colored balls out of his mouth. You shoot the colored balls at an incoming string of colored balls, trying to get at least three of the same color. Doing so makes them disappear. If the two balls on each end of the gap match, they attract...which is good since the thing you're trying to avoid is the string of colored balls advancing their way up to a hole which causes you to lose. Sounds confusing (and a little dirty), but it's rather simple. I'd say go take a look, but I don't think I know any of you enough to wish that upon you.
The thing that attracted me to Zuma was that I had read that over 17 million people have played it. I thought to myself, "I haven't played it," and proceeded to download the demo off of Steam. The demo lead to the purchase of the game, which then lead to a huge lack of productivity on my part, not to mention many lonely hours for my wife, friends, and family, as well as lateness for events involving them...I guess that's what I get for following the herd.
While Zuma may actually be a small part in the plans of the New World Order, I can't actually call it a bad game. Far from it. I'd be willing to call it the best puzzle game I've ever played (which, with the exception of Tetris and any game I've played by PopCap, isn't a genre I'm usually fond of). I just don't think I've ever had this hard of a time recommending a game after having seen just how addicted I was to it. Instead, I've been using my recommendation of it as a weapon. My brother absolutely destroyed me in a game of Warmachine, so I told him about Zuma. A co-worker and I both put in for the same day off...he got it, I did not. So I told him about Zuma. My mother likes Coldplay, so I told her about Zuma.
Well, I've got to cut this short...I've, uh, got....stuff....to do. Give Zuma a try, but be careful. This game will soak up your time like Brawny on steroids, not to mention the later levels can be a bitch. It's demonic in every sense of the word. Shit, I'd be willing to bet John Mayer invented fucking thing.
