Kurupoto Cool Cool Stars (DS)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars Mediocre
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 4.5 (2.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Frank Provo
• Reviewed on: 10/25/2007
• Released on: 10/07/2007
• Originally published on GameSpot: Kurupoto Cool Cool Stars (DS) Review

While battling a nasty flu, the moon sneezed and knocked the stars out of the sky. Now, it's up to you to reunite the stars with their haloes so they can fly back into space. That's the story behind Kurupoto: Cool Cool Stars, a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS that's certainly unique but not really all that interesting or time consuming.

Kurupoto is about solving mazes. In each of the game's nearly 200 mazes, you have to guide a rounded star to its halo simply by rotating the entire maze multiple times. For every quarter turn you make, the star and any loose square blocks inside the maze will shift then fall into place. The whole idea is to manipulate the blocks so that they fill gaps, open passages, and generally help you get the star into the goal. Of course, one wrong turn and they may end up blocking your path. That's the long and the short of strategy in Kurupoto: figuring out how to get to the goal in the fewest turns possible.

The controls are simple enough. You can use the shoulder buttons to rotate the maze, or you can tap icons on the touch screen to do so. Apart from the times when you need to choose modes and puzzles in a menu, you can literally control the game with one finger.

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