On the one hand Trioncube is an interesting game because of its off-beat characters and bizarre storyline, and on the other it’s a game that is just too simplistic and shallow to sustain interests. Think of it as Tetris without any penalties as you attempt to land your various shapes into 3-by-3 squares.

The game is way too much like Tetris – which isn’t a bad thing by itself - but the problem with this wonderfully cute game is that it is just too easy, and even the most casual of players will quickly plow through it with no effort. That’s mostly due to the fact that the game doesn’t do a good job of challenging you like it should when things get frantic and you – or your fingers – get reckless. The result of stacking shapes like a moron in Tetris is a game-over screen, but in Trioncube it’s pretty hard to mess things up.

In this puzzler five shapes fall from the top of the screen that the player must then rotate to create a 3 X 3 block. This starts a chain, which can be added to for bonus points. When you can’t add anymore to your cube, the extra blocks fall to the ground and you start anew.

The game offers a colorful and fun story mode with 40 levels and an endless mode with around 99 levels to blow through. As go through these levels you’ll get some nice unlockables, though not all of them come soon enough.. These unlockables include background skins and special block effects that you can combine as you like for some amusing moments. There’s also an arcade mode where you visit stages, all leading up to big boss battles. Finally there’s a multiplayer vs. mode that can be played against the CPU or another player. In this mode you put blocks together like in single player but in a twist your success floods your opponent with unusable blocks that make creating chains rather difficult… Of all these modes story mode is the best just for sheer entertainment value, while the rest is simply passable..

You’ll have no problem plowing through most of the game in a few scant hours, with the only thing to entertain and stimulate being the off the wall characters and their bizarre ramblings about nonsense. This part of the game is the most entertaining, so going through these levels has some rewards to give players for their time.

Trioncube is just one of those games where just below the surface you can imagine what could have been a pretty fun concept – Tetris style gameplay with a soul where bizarre space kings talk about odd personal and mundane topics as you just continue to make your way to the obligatory princess at the end of it all. But the game just doesn’t pull the rabbit out of its hat at the end of this magic act.

If there’s one group that this game might be worth recommending to it’s the youngsters ages 6 – 10 who aren’t quite agile enough to take on Tetris. If they are you might be better served picking them up something more stimulating like a Meteos game.

At the end of the day this game just doesn’t deliver a cohesive compelling product for the audience that it is targeting. Trioncube just doesn’t have the gameplay to back up a rather soulful, fun, charming and bizarre cast of characters. If you are looking for something for your kids to play this game might be worth checking out, otherwise, hold out for a deeper puzzling experience.