Bloons review

Get it? It's the developers clever way of spelling "Balloons" in order to sound "cool." Good effort developer!

When you boot the Mini you are greeted with some lovely simplistic music and a picture of a deformed monkey with a small prick...I mean...A small DART prick. People these days...You also have some very colourful options! Straight to it then. The task of this game is to use your prick(ahem) to pop the number of ballons which you are told to. Simples!

Ignoring the big "Play" option to start with, the second option down is a level editor. Yup, that's right, a level editor! In a Mini! Upon choosing this option, you are greeted with a lot of differe "editable level" levels. Choose the one you want, and start it. Wait what, nothing is here! Oh right, yeah, i have to make the level first...The level editor here is pretty simple. You use the shoulder buttons to cycle through different things that can be placed on the invisible grid - things like destroyable blocks, rubber blocks and of course balloons. When you are done, you can play it. Cool level editor for a Mini - sure it isn't shareable online, but you wouldn't expect it to be. It would be fun no doubt to edit a really hard level for you or someone else to try and master, though!

The other gameplay option for this Mini then - the actual game! When you choose this option, there is an option at the bottom for unlimited darts, but why would you want to use that? It eliminates all of the fun of the game! Right then. Controls for this game are very simple indeed. You use left and right D-Pad buttons to alter the angle you through your dart, and you use the Up and down arrows to alter the force with which you use it. The task is to burts the required amount of balloons (shown at the bottom) using only the amount of darts you are given.

This game is good fun. It's very simple, sure, but that is part of the charm of this game. Like "Let's Golf", it is good just to kill 10 minutes, or it is good to play with someone else who might not be into games very much - the simple controls make it very easy to get into and learn. The added bonus of a level editor make it just that much more fun, and that much better value for money. This Mini is, in my opinion, one of the best little time wasters on the PSN.

Bloons