hot take: not fun!
My mum spent hours on this game for days and days and days. I said 'mum, don't you have any friends to go out and play with?'
Worse than puyo/tetris but I don't necessarily understand the complete vitriol towards it
Its fine... I mean its a pretty basic gem matching game with a rather drab Egyptian coat of paint and a soundtrack that bores more than excites. Somebody at Sega must have a hard-on for this game given the sheer amount of ports it has to everything going.
(sonic's ultimate genesis collection 4/40)
what really can i say, just a pretty simple puzzle game. reminds me of a lot of games that came later on though. it faults pretty heavily from just looking and sounding boring, and that kind of stuff is vital in keeping someone interested in this type of game, so i can't say i'm leaning very positively
what really can i say, just a pretty simple puzzle game. reminds me of a lot of games that came later on though. it faults pretty heavily from just looking and sounding boring, and that kind of stuff is vital in keeping someone interested in this type of game, so i can't say i'm leaning very positively
Tetris but 16-bit jewels
One of my favorite puzzle games. Still addicting to this day. As a competitor to Tetris, it did surprisingly well to keep me transfixed. There are a couple of modes to change things up, but at the end of the day, it's a pretty solid puzzle game.
My mom's favorite game.
Melhor que Tetris e tem musiquinhas legais
fun enough puzzle game, though i don't find it as addicting as other puzzlers like puyo puyo or tetris.
the issue with columns and the reason why it doesn't stack up (sorry) to tetris boils down to its insistence on verticality. both tetris and puyo puyo allow for more freedom in the dimensions of how you lay down your pieces - meaning that there's more diversity in tactics during play. as a result, gameplay in columns is very limiting and feels a lot more luck-based than skill based. the aesthetic feels rather generic and the music is forgettable. with puyo on the up and up there's really no reason to return to this game.
Solid puzzler that lacks variety. Its music is alright and matching the gems is fun for a little bit. You could do better, but you could also do much much worse.
Not really interesting enough for me to return to at any point over more interesting puzzle games to zone out to, but it wasn’t incomprehensible or frustrating and I liked that you could get matches in some frankly bizarre patterns. Also lmao Christ what is that backstory. Do future games in this series have some kind of goofy story mode about the secrets of the Phoenicians? They should.
Sega's answer to Tetris is a decent, if kinda boring puzzle game. Fun fact, one of the first games I ever owned! it came bundled with Sonic and Alex Kidd with my Mega Drive, so lotta nostalgia associated with this one.
It's columns. Decent time waster puzzle game. The menu is a bit strange, and at the end of the day all the modes lead to the same ol columning gameplay. There isn't really an ending, its just columns. Play if you like columns. columns columns columns. what else do you want from me
Came with my Game Gear. It was an adequate Tetris timesink.
when i think of memorable puzzle games i don't think of this
Upsettingly fast
Odiaba este juego.
A game not suitable for color blind people.
One of those multiple games that sought to enjoy the success of the eternal Tetris, but one of the few that has also been able to endure over time and be also eternal. It looks like a clone, but it is different. One has a Russian background, the other Phoenician. One is based on placing blocks and not leaving any gap in the line; the other is based on combining colored jewels to get rid of them. This is Columns.
PROS
⭐Nice pixel art, fluid and delicate. Like real jewels.
⭐The audio juice just feels amazing. The clunk fo the jewels falling down, the rewarding sound when jewels break... Recognizable and varied sounds. Even the smallest action has a dedicated sound.
⭐Clotho theme.
CONS
⚠️It is a "chill" game. If you are looking for something like Puyo Puyo this is not for you.
⚠️If you play alone it can be monotonous and you get bored very quickly.
One of those multiple games that sought to enjoy the success of the eternal Tetris, but one of the few that has also been able to endure over time and be also eternal. It looks like a clone, but it is different. One has a Russian background, the other Phoenician. One is based on placing blocks and not leaving any gap in the line; the other is based on combining colored jewels to get rid of them. This is Columns.
PROS
⭐Nice pixel art, fluid and delicate. Like real jewels.
⭐The audio juice just feels amazing. The clunk fo the jewels falling down, the rewarding sound when jewels break... Recognizable and varied sounds. Even the smallest action has a dedicated sound.
⭐Clotho theme.
CONS
⚠️It is a "chill" game. If you are looking for something like Puyo Puyo this is not for you.
⚠️If you play alone it can be monotonous and you get bored very quickly.
I didn't really need to play this for long to find out that I'm not a fan of Columns
Sega 6-Pak for life
Yup, it's Columns.
It's clearly a Tetris clone, picking a nationality to focus on as you clear falling blocks and whatnot, but rather than rotating blocks you decide where each one is in the column. You can clear by connecting 3 or more in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Rarely you get a block that clears all of a gem.
There's potential but like most first iterations of a Tetris clone, it doesn't do a whole lot.
It's clearly a Tetris clone, picking a nationality to focus on as you clear falling blocks and whatnot, but rather than rotating blocks you decide where each one is in the column. You can clear by connecting 3 or more in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Rarely you get a block that clears all of a gem.
There's potential but like most first iterations of a Tetris clone, it doesn't do a whole lot.
Easily one of the most games of all time
It's a puzzle game that you can easily spend 10 minutes on.
This game got my Nan into video games. She would finish her housework and then settle down with this game. The air smelling like cigarettes, dettol, and tea, she would sit for hours playing this while I sat and watched and awaited my turn to play Street Fighter 2.
This game isn’t even that great, but it will always remind me of her.
This game isn’t even that great, but it will always remind me of her.
I'm column-os-seum, this is an average puzzle game I don't plan on playing again.
Listen, glad this gets carried forward in all these SEGA compilations but boy this is genuinely boring. Just play Puyo-Puyo.
Columns is a fine puzzle game. It doesn't do anything awful, but it doesn't do anything great either. It can be fun in short bursts, but it just lacks variety and strategy, and this isn't the puzzle game I just jump right back into instantly. It was more so just to spend more time playing on the Genesis Mini
It's not bad, but I think there are better options to crave your puzzle game fixings with fallen blocks like Tetris
It's not bad, but I think there are better options to crave your puzzle game fixings with fallen blocks like Tetris
As far as falling puzzle games go, I mean its no Tetris. But Columns is a very fun game with suitable challenge and variation that can emerge throughout games.