Dropheads Review

This game is yet another spinoff of the spinoffs of the original Tetris game. You arrange falling pieces, in this case round smiley heads, into groups of 4 or more and then they disappear. The heads above your combination then drop down and you continue making these combinations until a treasure chest that is floating on water level meter reaches the top. I know you're saying what does a treasure chest have to do with heads? The theme and game play don't really have any relation to one another! Okay so if you can get past that incohesive theme and play on you might clear your current stage. So what is your reward?

There are five treasures to be won in this game. For each treasure there are groups of stages. So you clear the first group of stages. For each stage that you cleared you received a piece of a treasure map. Once you have all the pieces of that treasure map you are taken to another screen. You are then presented with a jigsaw type puzzle containing all the pieces that you need to put together correctly to solve the treasure map image. When you finally solve this puzzle you have found your first treasure chest.

The game play continues and with each group of stages the game becomes more difficult and involved. You have fun and interesting pieces such as: a weighted head piece that when placed on top of a column drops down and clears the entire column, or a balloon head piece that you can place on top of a column and the balloon bursts and clears the heads in its immediate surrounding blocks.

I played this game for about an hour and found myself hooked and wanted to keep playing just to see if I could get to the next level and find the next treasure. The game is mind numbing but that may be just what you are looking for after a long day dealing with work, family, your boss, annoying friends, or whatever stresses you. This could be the decompression you need so you can go to bed and sleep peacefully.