3/13/2023 0 Comments Stoneloops of jurassica trailer![]() My apologies for it being so short, these kind of games are fairly simple and don’t require a lot of words.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. I tried to update it more how I usually write things these days. This post has been completely overhauled, making it drastically different from when I originally wrote it, where it was more like a blog post. I can see the appeal and the addictive nature of these games, for sure. I’m not even super-big on casual games like these and I had a fun time for about 10 minutes. However, I downloaded the trial again recently and found it just as goofy as I remember it. Which means this whole adventure was kind of a waste, in retrospect. (It came with a Steam key, so I gave the key to a friend.) It was clear GameStop was using this to attract people to the Impulse service, which wasn’t a big success as it would shut down in 2014. This would be the first out of two games I’d get from GameStop’s Impulse service, the other being a free copy of Darksiders that I didn’t use. I recommend it just to hear that overexcited announcer. ![]() Sadly it’s a trial version and not the full game, but an hour is probably enough to see the StoneLoops! experience for yourself. You can try StoneLoops! of Jurassica for yourself on CodeMinion’s official website, free of charge. There really isn’t much else to this game, the game is fairly innocuous and no different than the other color-matching ball shooters out there. StoneLoops! has the same kind of gameplay loop these ball shooters have, including upgrading your hut (which doesn’t do much of anything), and a long story progression of multiple levels of challenge. Guy could give the Unreal Tournament announcer a run for his money. Though I doubt Luxor has an excited announcer yelling words like “ASTONISHING!” and “AVALANCHE!” when you’ve done great combos. Not a big deal for developer CodeMinion, as they still have the game available on other platforms, including the PC. The similarities to Luxor were so blatant that MumboJumbo actually muscled Apple to remove an iOS version of StoneLoops! from the App Store. StoneLoops! is based on Luxor‘s gameplay style, yet has a theme/style more reminiscent of Zuma, so in a sense it’s a weird mashup of the whole ball shooter genre. Luxor added to this by giving the player powerups like spears and time stoppers, almost like the powerups in games like Arkanoid. Luxor changed it up a bit where instead of shooting randomly colored balls like Zuma or Magnetica, you’d pull a ball over and shoot it back onto a stack to make combos, clearing groups of balls being pushed by special monsters (Beetles in StoneLoops!). A color matching ball shooter game created by Mitchell Corporation, duplicated by many others, notably PopCap’s Zuma and MumboJumbo’s Luxor.įor those who haven’t played these kind of games, the goal is to shoot balls of a color into a matching color to stack combos for points. Look familiar? Yeah, it’s similar to the Magnetica series of games (or Ballistic/ Puzz Loop, if you prefer). In my excitement and fervor for something free, I didn’t realize what the free game really was. I get home and go through the less-than-interesting set of events, including having to register for GameStop’s Impulse service, and then installed StoneLoops! of Jurassica. (Note from me in 2019: I played Arkham Asylum and thought it was great, but I still haven’t played Die Hard: Vendetta to this day.) So I buy a few games at a store just to use up another coupon I had: Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition for PS3, since I had heard it was a pretty cool game and Die Hard: Vendetta for the Gamecube, since they were gonna stop selling Gamecube games soon. This was back before they branched out to “geek culture” alongside games. Normally I don’t frequent GameStop because of their nasty business practices of pushing pre-orders, plus I often find games on sale elsewhere, so often times my GameStop visits are usually that: visits. I’m a complete sucker for free games, so I couldn’t resist the temptation to snag a free game, despite it being somewhat of a clunky way to do this.
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