Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
This is a puzzle game with a simple yet excellent concept: try to move the big red brick on top of the small red squares. To do this, you move other bricks out of its way as it proceeds toward the winning position. This game is quite difficult and you need lots of patience and persistence to win.
Only download this game if you really enjoy puzzles.
Reviewer: PalmerAH1
I can still remember spending hours of my childhood, trying to get that darned red brick out of its starting position and onto the "finish line" as I called it back then.
Bricks is one of those old, classic games played to pass the time, and it will surely succeed in doing just that. This game is not for the casual game player, though, whose only desire is to relax through a mind-numbing activity. Considered to be a puzzle game, Bricks requires some intense critical thinking skills and patience, as finding the answer isn't always as easy as it might seem.
Essentially, the main goal of the game is to "free" the large red brick from the mess of surrounding bricks and to move it on top of the four smaller red bricks that are located somewhere else within the puzzle. The player has a number of levels or set-ups that increase in difficultly as each preceding level is mastered. Additionally, the challenge is further heightened by the different types of bricks that surround the red brick, acting as barriers to advancement.
You will find that Bricks is very similar to a much newer game called Rush Hour, a game that requires the player to "maneuver through traffic" in order to free the red car so that it can be on its way. Rush Hour can currently be found for purchase in Apple's App Store on such platforms at the iPhone, the iPad, and the iPod Touch.
Similarities stop at the goal of the games, however. Bricks' graphics are very typical of the time period in which it was first created (late 1990s).
Other features of the game include the ability to reset a level, save and load levels that were not completed, allowing you to pick up where you left off, undo previous steps and moves, and other things. I always appreciated the game's ability to challenge you by tracking your moves, goading you to do better and complete a level with fewer moves with each successive attempt. Another nice feature connected to that aspect is the game's ability to replay the "Best" attempt that completed the level with the fewest moves to that point.
Frustrating and impossible at times, you can be sure that Bricks will continue mocking you and drawing you back for more, time after time.
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