Turba

It's spelled "turbo", guys

Turba takes the enticing idea of a Bejeweled-style game that utilizes your music library and screws it all up by incorporating features that don't work as they should, resulting in a nearly unplayable mess. The simple task of matching three or more blocks of the same color is complicated by "bomb" blocks, which are blocks that will cause a 3x3 set of blocks to turn gray if they aren't matched within a certain number of beats. Adding to this problem is the brainless design decision that your board fills up with blocks with each beat of the song. This ensures that fast songs are literally unbeatable on certain play modes, even without the addition of bomb blocks. Worse yet, the game does not accurately detect beats, so blocks appear at completely random intervals. Finally, cheaters have devised a way to obtain the top scores on literally every song, so forget about ranking in the top 3 on anything, no matter how obscure it is. I've spoken with one of the devs (They have another terrible-...

Good concept, terrible execution. Beat detection is a core gameplay element and is implemented so poorly that the game is often unplayable.

The late 2000's gave us a cool new type of game which I like to call the "media player" genre: you load up music files from your own computer and they generate the level you play, often with elements of a rhythm game. This fad gave us many classic games such as Beat Hazard and Audiosurf, and continues strong to this day with games like Melody's Escape and Drive Any Track. It's personally one of my favorite types of game. Unfortunately, it also gave us some real stinkers like Ugly Baby and Turba. Turba is supposed to be a rhythm-based match-3 game, but it's so ill-conceived and badly-designed on so many levels that it’s almost a work of art. The basis of the game is that you’re supposed to select groups of same-colored blocks, then right-click to clear them to the rhythm of the music. You get more points for using multiplier blocks, for keeping the rhythm, and for selecting one group of each color before clearing them at once. There are three game modes which determine how the tile...

The idea is simple yet clever - a bejeweled-like game that lets you clear the board in the rhythm of your favourite music. Sounds like fun, right? Well, it's not. The beat detection - a core part of this game mechanics - is totally screwed up which makes it pretty much unplayable. First time, I played for about an hour before I grew irritated enough to uninstall the game. Second time, I got frustrated after a few songs. Third time, I didn't even manage to finish the first song. There will be no fourth time, I'm more than sure.

A solid premise, destroyed by terrible beat detection. More often than not this flaw makes play next to impossible. If you want a real music game, buy Beat Hazard and never look back.

This is a really cool puzzle game powered by your music.

All the reviews on the "most helpful" catagory are just people complaining so I'll try to make a review that acutally reviews it. cons: -low resolution -the game expects you to click on the beat of the song for combos, but the game is bad at recognizing where the beat is, so it's pretty random if you get a combo or not -2 of the 3 modes feel stressful and arent' very fun pros: you can play with your own music the 3rd game mode, "ascend" is very fun As you can see, the cons do outweigh the pros, so I wouldn't recommend buying this at full price. But if you see it on sale, (it's only 99 cents right now) that third game mode is well worth the money.

I just played Turba for 15 minutes, to get the Summer achievement that was added to it. Afterward when I got up from my chair, I stubbed my toe very hard, fell and bashed my arm on a bookcase as I tried to catch my fall, scraped my leg rather painfully, and finally broke my fall by smashing my hand against the sharp corner of a wooden box. My arm hurts, my leg hurts, my hand hurts, and my toe is bleeding a bit. I also seem to have punched myself in the stomach or something on the way down, I'm not even sure on that, but it hurts there too. Still, if I had no choice but to repeat one of those two experiences, I would not choose Turba.

Overall a weak game, while the concept drew me in, the game itself, doesn't really live up to it's promise. The colors and shapes on the board feel random, and the gameplay isn't interesting. Worse, the user has to highlightthe area to remove, whereas most games seem to allow a single click to clear the board. Nothing really enticed me to play more than a half hour, and that's after two attempts to really get hooked. If you want a game where you can "play your music" Beat Hazard at least has a more entertaining game, and Audio Surf attempts to get influenced by the music, Turba, well similar to the name, it's a confusing attempt at a game, where you think you know where they were going with it, but the seemed to fail to arrive there.