The objective of two of the main modes of the game is to make enough black pearls to match them in a cluster or flower, a task much easier said than done. Going even further, a flower of silver stars will combine into a black pearl, this having its own unique rotation rules as well where adjacent hexagons in a Y shape are rotated freely around the pearl. When this more difficult match is made, all pieces are absorbed into the central piece to make a silver star, the star now serving as an axle where all the surrounding pieces can be rotated at once even if no match is found during the rotation. There are special matches in Hexic HD it refers to as flowers, where a single hexagon is surrounded on all sides by hexagons that match each other in color without matching the central piece. The matching doesn’t come down to just making clusters either. While it can take a bit to dispense with the natural notion that you only need to have similarly colored pieces touching at all to get a match, Hexic HD’s matching style will quickly become second nature, providing a twist to the genre formula that helps it be more than another game following more popular titles’ leads. This choice means you can’t rearrange the board for bigger matches, the goal instead being to identify where a match can currently be made and trying to set things up for potentially larger matches down the road by changing the board’s layout.
To swap pieces around in Hexic HD involves moving around a three piece wide cursor that is able to rotate them clockwise or counterclockwise, the pieces spinning either until a match is made or until the hexagons return to their original position. Once a cluster of hexagons is cleared, the board will be repopulated with new pieces that fall in from above, new matches sometimes happening as the play area is filled up with new hexagons. The game board in Hexic HD is made up of an assembly of colored hexagons, the player needing to match them not just by putting them together, but by making little clusters where each hexagon is touching another of the same color (or pattern if the color-blind friendly option is enabled) with at least two of its sides. Hexic HD is a match-3 puzzle game but not one where the matching is as straightforward as it is in things like Puyo Puyo or Bejeweled.
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Hexic HD is a game available for free to owners of Xbox 360 and Xbox One systems, and while it’s not the most important game in the history of the console or anything, it did seem somewhat appropriate that the first game I would play on my new Xbox 360 would be a game that anyone with the system could download and play. As such, the first game I would play on it became a bigger question than usual, and while there were plenty of candidates, I noticed there was already a game installed to the system when I turned it on.
I recently purchased an Xbox 360 for a pretty good price, and while it wouldn’t be my first time playing the system, it did have the interesting honor of being the first game console purchased since starting The Game Hoard.
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