Niggles: Evy: Magic Spheres
There's a free demo on Desura.
The game art is quite attractive, though still. The gameplay is very repetitive, and the "compelling upgrade system" is not compelling at all. Upgrade your damage stat and you will now a group of three red spheres will do 4 damage instead of 3. Upgrade your damage bonus stat and a group of 3 purple spheres will append 4 damage to your next blow instead of 3. In the first ten levels (or so) there were 8 battle levels and two levels where you eliminate a ring of spheres without first expanding it too far. The plot isn't interesting yet, just a mechanism for feeding you more of the same puzzle.
I'd imagined that combos would yield interesting attacks or effects, but no, you just see each of the attacks in sequence, without any multipliers or differences I could note. You do get extra turns for larger combos, which are very useful. But don't trigger a large combo hoping to engulf your enemy in fire. They're not as exciting as they could be.
So the presentation is pretty and neatly done, but the game is pretty thin, I'm finding. Fun enough for a short stretch, I guess. Give the demo a try, certainly.
edit:
I bought the game, partly out of curiosity, partly because I'm kind of an idiot. Got a few more levels in, and nothing's changed. No way I'll be able to slog through it.
