Perfect Balance 2 - A Game Review

You only have to look at the iPhone to see the success of the perfect balance. Anyone that plays flash games on their iPhone will see that there is now a series of games dedicated to perfect balance. This all started from the first flash game on the PC. Perfect Balance 2 the follow on to the now legendary game.

Once again players have to make their way through a painstaking 100 levels. The concept is still the same, you still have to balance seemingly impossible items on a map without any of them falling off; the tough part comes in when you have no straight surfaces to do so. Developers have not changed the way the game is played but instead tightened up the game play itself. Let's take a look at where the game has been developed.

The screen layout has been vastly changed, now instead of the previous tedious layouts developers have added a lot more colour, which changes depending on which one of the five stages you choose to play.

In the game there is now the option of a walk through, and even though I would suggest you try to steer clear from as many walk throughs as possible, it is always handy to have.

You also have the option to skip up to six levels; this is a helpful feature to have, because you will often find that if you spend too much time on one level, then you stop thinking about it logically. This way you can always go back and try the level again at a later stage.

The biggest development in the game is the scoring system. As well as the retracting bonus counter, which offers you more points for quicker completion; you now also get nine jewels per stage. You must try and balance these on your structure to gain more points. You get a set number of points for each one that stays on your structure, and if you somehow manage to get all nine, then you receive an additional bonus.

On the main menu you can reset your progress, this offers you the chance to get all six of your level skips back, but, lose all your progress, as well as your total score and the amount of diamonds you have placed.

Even though effectively there are 100 new levels only 20 of them are never before seen, because 80 have been taken from the iPhone game. Of these 80, half have been taken from the perfect paradise game and half from lost trials. I suggest you start out on the new stages created for the PC as they tend to be slightly easier than some of iPhone levels.

Perfect Balance 2 has taken out some of the gimmicks from the first game and concentrated on game development itself. This has allowed developers to structure an enjoyable game, one that boasts over seven million players. Yes, it can get severely frustrating at times but keep your head and you will figure it out..... eventually.

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