There are objects that can help with these problems. Juggling these obstacles adds an element of strategy to the game.

Giant octopuses that ink up all of the balls on screen for a certain amount of time. Sharks that hit the boat and make it so that you can’t choose the direction of a shot. Snails that eat the coral and take away from the progression meter. Balls can also be encased in bubbles that keep them from being popped until they reach the surface of the water. There are squids that shoot ink onto the balls which make them un-poppable for a certain amount of time. On top of trying to decide where to shoot the next ball there are a few other obstacles that stand in the way. If the nutrient balls touch the coral at the bottom of the screen it is game over. Think of it as sort of a reverse Bust-a-Move game. Every time you fail to make a match more nutrient balls float up from the bottom of the ocean to increase the challenge, which doesn’t really make sense. These nutrition balls shift when pushed down, sometimes in predictable ways and sometimes in ways which are harder to predict. One of the major differences between this and other match three games is the fact that these balls float in the water, so as you shoot more balls into the water they push the ones floating at the top downwards. There is a meter that keeps track of this growth and once you reach 100% of the growth for that area you move on. When three of these balls match up, they pop and sprinkle nutrition down onto the bottom of the screen. There is a ship above the water that shoots more nutrition balls. During the game a field is set up with some orbs that contain nutrition that is needed to grow a coral reef that are floating in water. Honestly, the game sometimes feels like a message about the environment with a video game added to it to keep people entertained than it feels like a game that has a political message tacked on. I would guess that it was just an excuse to use an object that is similarly shaped to an orb or jewel for convenience sake except that the game has a very strong pro-environment theme about the dangers of destroying coral reefs. While some games are simple match three object puzzles, other games in the genre such as Harry Hatsworth or Puzzle Quest have taken risks with the formula and created games with a surprising amount of depth.īermuda Triangle: Saving The Coral is, as far as I know, the only match three game that uses coral. Just on the Nintendo DS you can find games in this genre where you can match orbs, animals, swords, bombs, jewels, Pokemon, enemies, and so on. By that I mean areas are cleared by matching similar colored objects off of a game board. One of the most popular style of the puzzle genre is the match three style.

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