![]() ![]() You can also quick-save from this menu should you want to step away and not have to start over from the beginning, which is yet another much-appreciated quality-of-life addition. But purists can simply opt out of this feature should they wish to play I.Q. Once you bring up this menu, you can simple scroll back through moments prior and basically get a redo, at any point, which lets you master each round in - or under - the suggested number of moves, instead of having to live with your failures and simply move on. Thankfully, with the most recent version of I.Q.: Intelligence Qube, Sony added the ability to rewind time via a “the last few seconds recorded” chapter select, which you can pull up using the Options button on the DualSense (I played this on the PS5), as the touchpad, oddly enough, acts as the Select and Start buttons. definitely had its merits, it just can’t hold a candle to I.Q. That game felt mostly like a naming convention tie-in, and although P.Q. 2005’s PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient for the PlayStation Portable. In fact, since then, the only thing I can compare it to is the under-the-radar, underwhelming, vastly different pseudo-sequel. There doesn’t seem to be much else like it in the gaming world. Intelligent Qube was an odd game, and it was arguably well ahead of its time. However, I don’t think this will count towards your college acceptance or anything. By chaining them, you can sometimes delete most of a round’s worth of cubes in one fell swoop.Īnd so it goes, the race to delete these incessant marching cubes (or Qubes, I guess) while staying below the suggested number of moves per round so you can rack up the highest score possible, which in turns raises your I.Q. Green highlighted tiles on the edges of the map will delete six tiles, while those not touching the edge will delete nine tiles. These can be activated at any time to delete multiple tiles in a radius around them. Grey blocks delete one at a time, while green blocks, once deleted, leave green highlights on the tile they were deleted on. You can activate one tile at a time, which turns that tile blue, and once a cube rolls onto it you then have to press the button a second time to delete the cube, thereby turning the tile red. Your current move count is highlighted in the upper right corner of the screen for example, 5/5 or 8/8. You must delete every grey and green cube while avoiding the black cubes - ideally, you’ll achieve this within the number of moves the game suggests for the best score per round. There are various assortments of grey, black, and green cubes. At the start of each round (there are multiple rounds per level), the floor rises and reveals a block of colored cubes that all begin tumbling toward the player, one forward rotation at a time. For some unexplained reason, you are trapped in a void on a floating plane of cubes - think of it effectively as a grid of square tiles. is that you play as some guy who looks like he maybe stumbled out of the “Money for Nothing” video from the ’80s band Dire Straights. But really, that’s nothing one can’t easily overlook. now that I’m playing it as a middle-aged adult - is that its barebones presentation gets in the way of the core gameplay a little more than I would prefer. For me, it is the perfect puzzle game, perhaps only outmatched by the Game Boy version of Tetris. ![]() I played the heck out of that game and have always held it in high regard. I was 17, and some might say this was my first love. ![]() originally released on January 31, 1997, in Japan, and it came Stateside that October. The graphics were hardly a great showcase for the system (I suppose 3D shapes were kind of a big deal back then, but CUBES?!), and the gameplay was… limited.I.Q. And while I remember it was fairly fun, (at least for a middle schooler with no money for any other games) I wonder if it has held up at all. I remember spending many hours (spread across a span of many months and years) playing I.Q.: Intelligent Qube on a demo disc that came with my Playstation 1 back in 1997. I have taken it upon myself to dip my toe back into the pool of nostalgia to see if these games are still worth playing, and in turn, see if they are worth your time and money in downloading and playing them. Some of them will have you waxing nostalgic about the good old days of gaming, and others will leave you questioning your sanity and wondering why or how you could have ever been so enthralled by such jaggedy graphics god-awful controls. Instagram: has several different PS+ packages available for subscribers now and the Premium subscription comes with a host of classic Playstation games from the PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3 eras of gaming. Shop at Amazon to Support James Loves Games: Thanks for watching! Please subscribe to my channel for more great content! ![]()
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