Welcome to our review of Gabbuchi, a game that excels in its puzzle mechanics but provides quite the challenge from the start!
Gobble it all? Or in moderation, for progress’ sake? “Gabbuchi”, an action puzzle brain exercise game with simple controls. “Gabbuchi” is a curious creature that loves gobbling blocks and stuff.
His favorite food is the heart cookie. In order to get it, you have to think about which blocks he can and can’t gobble. He can gobble blocks the same color as himself.
You can change his color, too, so he can gobble different colored blocks. Blocks that are a different color from Gabbuchi can also serve as supports to reach high places! The more Gabbuchi eats, the more satisfied he gets.
But, if you make him eat too much he won’t be able to get to his heart cookie, so you have to think carefully about what blocks he should and shouldn’t eat!
There are 180 stages awaiting Gabbuchi, ranging from easy to hard. With the included level editor, you can even make your own stages, so there’s no end to all the ways you can satisfy Gabbuchi!
Gabbuchi might be the best and worst puzzle game at the same time. While easy to just finish a simple level, it is hard to perfect it. there is always a perfect solution to solve the puzzle, but boy, this is a pain in the ass sometimes.
When you start the level, you get the lay of the field ahead of you. You can usually immediately see how to solve the basic puzzle, but as an avid puzzle fan, that does not satisfy me in the least. I want to find out that one perfect solution to not only satisfy Gabbuchi’s hunger but also do it with the minimal amount of color changes.
I have spent several tries on a ton of levels just figuring out how to get more efficient and how to get that perfect score more easily. So how do you do it? You keep restarting and retrying the level. One level, I am sure to have tried 20+ times just to get a perfect score.
I had the challenge to reduce my color changes by 1 time and before I realized I started the puzzle by tackling the wrong side. So after I headed right of the pieces, I suddenly saw it. I saw the solution to grab that perfect score and this is exactly why I love this game.
It made me think so many moves ahead, out of the box even if you’d like. It’s been since BoxBoy since I had this experience and be it pure coincidence or not, it has the same simplistic graphics. Another proof that graphics do not make the game. This game is all about basic graphics with a die-hard puzzle game underneath.
In conclusion, Gabbuchi is tough as nails to perfect, but very doable to just finish levels, do you have what it takes to go all the way?
