Ever since games saw the light of day, they have been restlessly modified to suit the gamers’ equally changing taste, although some game stayed the same throughout the years, and a good example would be bubble shooter. Now this particular game has not changed much because, well, there’s no need to! It’s the same fun that you know and love, and while the presentation style looks a bit dated, there’s no reason for you to not have a good time.

If simplicity is beauty, then this game would have been the Mona Lisa, and while it really that much artistic in a sense, the gameplay still retains its charm. Nostalgia is at work here, and once you see that colorful cluster of bubbles, you’ll almost instinctively know what to do. Burst them by matching three or more of the same colored bubbles together. Simply use the mouse to aim your launcher to the left or to the right, and then click to shoot your bubble! There are some tricks for you to learn to make the game more interesting, like when you clear a line of bubbles and different colored bubbles are also hanging onto that line for dear life, then they get popped too! This is called an avalanche, and of course, more bubbles popped at the same time means a higher score! Try to score high because you can later send your score to the leaderboards, and it feels good to be a leader.

There’s just one game mode available for this game, and it’s play-at-your-leisure mode. But, even though there is no pressure for this game, you still shouldn’t waste your shots. Before you get lost in this game and shoot bubbles randomly, be reminded that there is such a thing as “fouls” in this game. If you shoot, and it didn’t clear a line of bubbles, well, do that a lot and a new line of bubbles appear from the top of the game screen. The number of fouls is shown as silver balls next to your launcher, and bubble shooter doesn’t want you to get too many fouls so as a form of help, the next bubble is shown on the left of your launcher. Now when too many new lines appear on the game screen and the cluster is already near your launcher, say your prayers. Let one bubble touch the bottom of the screen and it’s game over. Actually, there will be a lot of bubbles from the start of the game, so problems come early.

The settings can be changed in game. At the right of your game screen there’s the setup button and there you can change the color of your background, or the difficulty of the game, or activate the animation to make random bubbles shake up for no apparent reason, or see other features that can only be used in the deluxe version of the game. You can have a good time in playing this game, and you almost don’t have to wait for it to load since the game is very small, thanks to its minimal graphics.

 When you see that a particular game is the sequel already, you know that the first one must have been a game that tickled the gamer inside a lot of people. That’s how it is for Tilt 2, and we know what happens in every second version of a game; it is either improved, or changed. It was the latter for this one, although the fun and entertainment of the first game remains intact.

Do you remember balancing sticks in your hand (or a finger if you’re that awesome) and moving to the left or to the right to keep the stick from falling? Well that idea was used by Alex Heaton, an England-based web and business developer and that’s what pushed the Tilt games into existence. It must be one of the simplest mechanics ever thought of for a game and everyone will surely feel the need to not let go of the mouse soon enough after a first try.

You start with something to balance hanging down from your mouse cursor, flip it and the game starts. In the first game, you balance a dish on top of a stick. When you reach a certain score, the stick becomes shorter, making it harder to balance. In Tilt 2, you are now balancing a Y-shaped stick, a bit easier right? Not until you find out that balls will be raining from above. They will accumulate on top of your stick, but you can manage a few balls. As you play longer, you’ll forget that this is an “easy” game. The challenge arises and finally when you can’t balance anymore, the stick will slowly tip to a side, stopping your hard earned score from getting any better. But a competitive man cannot accept a score too low! You’ll be flipping that stick back up again until you’re satisfied with your score, or if you’re already too frustrated because you can’t go past 500.

If you have played the first game, you’ll notice that the background music is gone. The insults shown after a game over is also absent in the second game. But don’t let that stop you? It’s still the fine game that you’ll want to play over and over again for a couple of times to prevent a possible death-by-boredom.