Project Gert: Moonbreaker

Developer: Modern Intrigues

Cost: 1 dollar

Project Gert: Moonbreaker is a puzzle game that shares the name(and developer) of an otherwise unrelated Android platformer called Project Gert. The game is a collapsing puzzler when you have to knock out the correct blocks to send the target piece to the platform.  Any other piece left over is added to your score, including a special piece to which multiplies your score. To help you, you’ll have up to 3 characters at your disposal who come with special abilities, including slowing down time which influencing piece movement, a balloon which will keep pieces from falling, or sending the entire grounded structure in a particular direction. Also complicating matters is that every level has a condition, either time limit, minimum score, or a maximum amount pieces of that can be removed.

The game has two main modes. The first is a fully voice campaign mode with 12 easy  puzzles and a story that makes no sense revolving around hacking alien computers, or something. The real meat of the game is the 42 puzzle challenge mode, which is very challenging and will take some to some time to complete all 42.

Unfortunately, the game is not as good as it could be because of the cursor. It locks onto the nearest block at all times, so it’ll sometimes hinder you because you’ll be selecting the wrong block. This makes dealing with lots of cascading blocks more difficult than it should be. Second, when you select to use special ability, you’ll get a completely different cursor which will always start in the center for all powers, though it doesn’t lock, which can be disorienting. However, despite the problems, the cursor issues are more annoying than anything and not game breaking.

Finally, the voice acting is worth noting because it’s quite good.The actor is Dan Oster from Mad TV, though the actress is a no-name(starred in a few commercials). The problem is with a one dollar price, the voice acting probably took up much of the maximum file size, which is why the campaign is far shorter than it should be. As it is, the campaign is simply a glorified way to introduce the special abilities and the various conditions and blocks. I wouldn’t have minded paying three dollars for a much longer campaign. When the side mode has more puzzles than the supposed main one does, there’s a problem.

Overall though, Project Gert: Moonbreaker is worth playing. Nicely enough, there are hints that future game updates are coming, so the cursor issues should be patched out along with the addition of more level. I’ll check back in a few months to see if the developers followed through and released updates.

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