Metamo Ark Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Meteos Game. History Talk 0. It was a dark time The existence of all planets was threatened by one: the evil planet Meteo. A stream of phantasmagoric matter flowed endlessly from the planet. This matter -called Meteos- crushed life and stole the sparkle of the universe.
World after world fell But then, by chance, three Meteos of the same type aligned. Rather than being restricted by a time limit or score limit, the only thing holding you back is your own skill. Versus Computer mode is very similar to Challenge Mode, but with one added twist: You're also challenging a computer opponent to a game of Meteos. Like Tetris or other games in the puzzle genre, the challenge comes in performing larger and faster combos than your opponent.
Doing so sends a group of "garbage" blocks over to your opponent's side, making it harder for them to perform combos and bringing them ever closer to defeat. The biggest problem with Meteos: Disney Magic comes in the fact that it was designed for a younger audience than the DS original.
The first change comes in how you hold the DS. Rather like Brain Age or Hotel Dusk , you hold the DS sideways as you would a book, rather than with the two screens on top of one another. This causes a fairly significant change to the game's overall difficulty.
The overall vertical length is significantly increased, while the horizontal length is shortened. What that means in the long run is that it is easier to perform combos, and you have a lot more room for error than in the original game.
The other big change comes with the addition of horizontal movement. As mentioned above, Meteos only allowed you to move the blocks vertically, but Disney Magic adds horizontal movement. This seemingly minor change actually makes the game significantly easier, as you can simply drag icons around to perform combos. To be fair, the game's Expert difficulty level partially does away with this addition, but overall, Disney Magic feels dumbed-down from its predecessor.
For younger kids, this is an excellent decision, as it makes the core Meteos gameplay more accessible, but for those fans of the original looking for a sequel, Disney Magic is going to disappoint. The other big change comes in the form of the titular Disney Magic. As you play a stage, your magic meter, located on the left hand side of the touch-screen, slowly fills up as you perform combos; once it's filled up, you can access one of three kinds of Disney Magic.
Nitro Boost, perhaps the most dramatic of the three, allows a combo to launch the blocks into the air incredibly quickly, making it very useful for preventing an untimely game over.
Slow does exactly what you'd expect — it slows down the fall of the blocks. Finally, and only available in Expert difficulty level, Horizontal Movement allows you, for a brief period of time, to move the blocks left and right in addition to up and down.
These new abilities actually do less to change the core gameplay than you'd think. In the game's single-player story mode, you are heavily punished for using magic; doing so guarantees that you won't get a golden medal, and makes the chance of a silver highly unlikely.
One bright aspect of the game is the multiplayer mode. Like Vs. Computer mode, up to four players can compete against each other to see who can last the longest. This is a surprising amount of fun, even with the slightly dumbed-down features found in Meteos: Disney Magic.
Furthermore, for those who are worried about finding someone else with a copy of Disney Magic for multiplayer gaming, don't worry: Disney Magic supports download play, so as long as one person has a cart, everyone can play.
The only thing sadly lacking in Disney Magic is Wi-Fi play, which is a feature that would have done a lot to set Disney Magic apart from its predecessor.
The biggest selling point for Disney Magic over the classic Meteos is the addition of the Disney characters, ranging from classic characters like Simba and Winnie the Pooh to new stars like Toy Story 's Woody and Buzz and Lilo and Stitch 's adorable alien Stitch. The primary role these characters serve is altering the blocks on each stage. The Nightmare Before Christmas stage, for example, may be made up of some of Jack Skellington's bizarre Halloween-Christmas toys, while those found in Lion King levels are more built on the symbols and icons found within the movie.
The left screen shows an animation while the game is playing that changes as you go through the stage. A scene of Pride Rock from The Lion King may start dark and covered with hyenas but slowly changes to a bright scene as you come closer to completing the goal.
In Challenge Mode, this animation just loops over and over until you complete the game.
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