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Balloon Bliss is the latest game from Vortix Games. Downloading this game gives you a one hour trial and an option to buy. The first red flag comes when you are required to submit your email to register with Vortix. The download is quick and soon you have the option to try Balloon Bliss.

The game starts with you building your avatar. This is a child of roughly four years old. You pick the child's hair, face, clothes, gender and name. Once this is done you are ready to begin Balloon Bliss.

The story is a simple, albeit confusing one. You are a young child that wants to learn if you can fly. Of course your first stop is a balloon vendor on the street and she directs you to an old man at the edge of town that knows a legend that just might help you (ignore for a moment why a child so young is wandering around town alone). The catch is that you will have to follow a path of balloons to get to his house, each of which is a round of Balloon Bliss.

The play starts as a colorful explosion of sound and acrylics. While the graphics are good, there isn't a lot that can be done with the simplicity of the game and the music is so happy go lucky that your ears will bleed five minutes into the game if you don't turn it down.

The object of the game is to click on groups of same colored balloons before time runs out or those coming from the bottom reaches the edge of the screen. If you pop enough balloons you get a trophy and move onto the next level. Coins can be gotten from the balloons and used to buy upgrades such as balloons that clear columns vertically or horizontally and balloons that can both grant and take away coins. If you get stuck there is even a panic button that removes all balloons that aren't touching another of their own color.

The game is boring. One hour is more than enough to know that this is not the best way to spend your time. Other than adding new colors and speeding up the incoming balloons there is no end to the monotony. The game looks and feels like it was made for small children but the speed which the balloons eventually get to contradicts this.

All in all Vortix dropped the ball on this one. If they wanted to remake a classic click and destroy game they could have done much better. If you are interested in playing a remake game of this kind I would suggest finding one that is not trying so hard to be as cute as a teddy bear with a lollipop. There are many alternatives out there.

This game gets a 2/5 for the colorful graphics and a good idea that was just a bad execution.

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