By: Derek Yu
On: June 2nd, 2009
shockedfrog writes:
Though they’re better known for Pekka Kana 2,
Q-Lat2 is my favourite thing by Piste Gamez. Again, simple enough objective (hit balls together in an attempt to make them all the same colour), but addictive gameplay with great presentation. Though the gameplay does rely on a fair bit of luck with what bonuses appear, it’s one of those games that makes me want to keep trying to do a little bit better, whether it’s completing a certain number of levels, getting a better score, or surviving a bit longer. I think it’s a real sign of fun that I’m setting myself targets, which is something that’s been lost with the focus on rather artificial ‘achievements’ in more recent games.
Unfortunately, most of the games from Piste (which I’m pronouncing “pissed”), including Q-Lat 2, do not seem to fair well on Windows XP/Vista and modern graphics cards and suffer from slowdown and graphical glitches. But those of you with old computers are in luck! For everyone else, the developers are thankfully still active and are purportedly working on Pekka Kana 3. The game, which can be seen in the background of the group’s blog (last updated December 2008), looks like it maintains the high quality of graphics from all of their releases.
TIGdb: Entry for Q-Lat 2