Games for Lunch: Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest

In a nutshell: The building blocks of evolution
6/9/2008 6:11 PM | 0 Comments | Page 3 of 3

0:41 Now I'm a Blueocyte that can pounce from afar.

0:43 Now a Redaped with "mad hops." My favorite so far.

0:45 Now a Purpial that can "back up really fast." Day turns to night after this mutation.

0:47 I come to some yellow tigers that finally give me a run for my money. I have to dodge their attacks instead of just blindly attacking. Eating their meat makes me a Yellowbrate: "I'm not only cute, but sharp on defense." You can say that again.

0:48 The moon is out, so I go to sleep. ACE II mumbles some weird poetry about frogs in his sleep. O...K.

0:51 A three-piece beast is somewhat predictably the next boss. He has a couple of cohorts that are good at scaring me back and attacking from very far away. They get me down to about 1/4 health before I eat one of them and get rejuvenated. The big guy himself does a lot of damage, too. I have to wound him twice before I can take him out. Glad to see things picking up a bit.

0:54 I got a "raw-bone" for my troubles. Now I can block better by pressing B. Hooray for evolution!

0:57 "Forget boneless ham! I am a big-boned pig now." That's what she said! "Life as a pig is sweet. Like sweet and sour pork!" Groan. I'm looking for "The consu-mate... the perfect female." Aren't we all?

0:58 Nice guitar music in this new stage, and more mating grounds! This time I attract four females with my massive raw-bone. (Oh, yeah!) We frolic off and create Piggy ACE the third! Three limbs! He can gallop along, rather than just kind of hopping like his dad, and he can tear off two pieces of meat in one bite with his mighty fang. I'm so proud of my little piggy grandson.

Would I play this game for more than an hour? Yes!

Why? It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen, and the simple gameplay is getting more complex by the moment. I can't wait to see what mutation happens next.

This column was based on a retail copy of the game borrowed from a friend.

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