Roogoo

With rainbows, butterflies, hearts, stars and cutesy little characters the newly released Roogoo on Xbox Live Arcade is reminiscent of the Care Bears, if the Care Bears were sadistic monsters who liked to torture you.

This puzzler is a contradiction, a game so challenging it'll make you want to pull your hair out but in packaging so sweet it'll give you a toothache. Yet this wolf in kindergarteners clothing, with its ever changing gameplay in a harmless environment, has incredible appeal.

In Roogoo you play as the defender of Roo, a planet drained of its beauty by a corrupt king who hoards the colorfully shaped meteors that are essential to the life on the planet all for himself. How do you save planet Roo? By sorting the meteors through floating discs as they fall from the sky. Stars, cylinders and triangles drop from above and its up to you to turn the floating discs so they match up with the shape that's falling. Sounds simple, and at its core it is, but each level offers up something different.

Roogoo starts with three shapes but pretty soon you'll have four, then five. Then you have to deal with purple critters named Meemoo who block your path, or multiple blocks coming in waves or evil butterflies (yes, evil butterflies) that like to steal your blocks...and that's just for starters. The gameplay is challenging because Roogoo lets you get used to its premise, then constantly tweaks it.

Because you rarely see the same thing twice, the game will be frustrating for some. Gamers are used to seeing patterns in puzzle titles and there aren't many here, but that's what makes Roogoo so addictive, and with 45 levels, a game with high replay value.

PROS: 3D puzzle game with simple yet complicated premise, highly addictive
CONS: You'll never trust cute animated characters again

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