 Fun To Be Addictive
Addictive. Not because those Megavitamins give you a buzz... Addictive because the gameplay screams at you "you can never stop!" even if you wanted to ignore it. So it goes like this. The Mushroom Kingdom has a spread of a cold, so Mario takes it upon himself to take a piece of paper and write himself a PhD in medicine. Then he takes some plastic capsules and fills them with Kool Aid packets for his placebo miracle: Megavitamins! The viruses see the placebo and think it'll kill em', so they get killed from both the placebo effect and the fact that viruses and Kool Aid work just like snails and salt.
There's also a 2-player mode in the game, and in this mode, if you perform a combo, you dump garbage pills into the opponents bottle. Combos are when you clear one virus, and the access pills kill another. You can figure it out.
Sound: When the pills land on something, they make a sound as though you dropped a pile of books on the floor. As far as music goes, you can turn it off, but for a more pill-enduced feeling, play the "Fever" music. After playing the game with it on for a few hours, you'll feel like you've had a Megavitamin overdose. Control: "A" for clockwise pill rotation; "B" for counter-clockwise. "Start" is for pause. "Select" ain't used. Moving around and rotation is easy, that is until the pills start to fall like meteors. Then you'll bang your head against the controller. But remember: you ain't supposed to be as fast as light. And where's the challenge without speed? Fun: Woah! It's like you're trippin' on mushrooms with every game. But don't worry. It's just one of the greatest puzzle games ever made!  |
Playing the game is simple. Move the Megavitamins around this bottle and land them on the viruses, matching the colors. You have to get four units in a row, units being a combination of viruses and pills. But don't just throw them around. Use yer noggin' to clear them all without stacking the pills to the bottleneck. Ever play Tetris? Yeah, it's like that. Touch the top and your bottle freaks out and all the viruses laugh at you. Why? Because they're wondering why you're using the pills in a bottle and not an actual cold sufferer.
See the picture to the left? Mario has just realized, after overfilling the bottle, that he could have cured someone of the dreaded common cold had he not have wasted his time moving the pills from one bottle to the other. Despite this, Mario also realizes that this game of killing viruses in a bottle is more fun than watching Average Joe feel better after a few dozen of these pills. You would, too. See the yellow virus in the magnifying glass? Unlike the Hillbilly Red Cold virus and the Bucktoothed Rabbit Blue cold virus, he's got all his teeth in check. When you have to laugh at the guy playing the game, you gotta smile for him.