Topic: OldMan Chat: Wetrix (N64)

[OldMan Nintendo]

I remember renting Wetrix for the N64 a couple of years ago.  It intrigued me just by reading the box because of the unique concept that the game presented: You had a 10x10 flat landscape that you had to terraform so that you'd make craters and lakes with different-sized land tiles (some of the shapes were similar to those in Tetris).  Soon, you'd get big blocks of water that you'd fill your craters and empty lakes with.  The objective of the game was to make the biggest lakes with the land given to you while preventing the water that comes down from leaking over the sides; if too much water leaked over the sides of the landscape the game ends.

When I popped it in my N64 at home I was instantly hooked -- it was just so much fun and the puzzles presented were challenging and ever-changing as you progressed (there was this one map where there was a big hole in the middle that you'd ultimately have to fill in).  I made ringed mountains for the monsoons that were to come and tried ever-so-quickly to patch up the corners, where a leak formed due to a small meteor that i had to drop somewhere.  I even got a rubber ducky floating in one of my lakes... I never found out how or why that occured, but I got extra points for it being there!

A couple of months after I played the game I saw the game for sale as a used product in an Electronics Boutique in my neighborhood!! I couldn't believe it!! $14.99!! Ahhhhhhh!!

...But alas, I didn't have enough money to buy it.
I went back to that EB a few days later to find the game gone.

Ever since then (which was a good couple of years ago) I've always wanted to see a sequel to Wetrix -- I believe that the game deserves to be re-made, even if it was a sleeper hit.

Has anyone else played Wetrix for the N64?  <sigh> I'd ask everyone if anyone knew if a sequel of it was gonna be made, but I haven't seen any rumors on the Net about it.

[Infernal Monkey]

There is a sequel to Wetrix. It's on PlayStation 2 though, named "Aqua Aqua"

It's okay, the graphics have been bumped up heaps (As you would expect) and the gameplay is the basically same thing. Not that that's a bad thing.
But yeah, the original was great fun. It sure surprised me at the time, and I grew to love it. But like you, never owned it. And it's very hard to get in Australia. Since it only had a very limited release to begin with. And now it would seem that Aqua Aqua is impossible to track down here, bah.

A port on GBA is what's needed =)

EDIT:  Aqua Aqua review, if you're interested

[oohhboy]

You make me want to go out and buy it. I will get back to you if I find it.

[GoldShadow1]

Yeah, a GBA port would be awesome, though the water effects would obviously have to be toned down.

Anyway, this game is awesome.  The gameplay is brilliant - few puzzle games are this unique, it's utterly addictive, and you get extremely protective of your little landscape.  I wish they'd make a sequel for GameCube - I'd buy if it was cheap enough, and they added quite a bit to it.  I'd love for more options and scenarios, lots of new powerups and hazards.  What'd be really cool and wacky is if they'd have little animations to jazz things up - things like little tiny islanders and sharks and things in the water.  They also need lots of new music - the first game had *awesome* music, but it was very repetetive.