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This one's apparently rare enough to have retained its value as a collectible - there are plenty of copies online, but they don't come particularly cheap. But it's certainly one of the more unique titles to grace the Playstation, with an artistically-driven look and feel, and I enjoyed spending a little time with it. Intelligent Qube is an acquired taste, to be sure, and not an easy game I gave up before I got frustrated, but I can imagine quite a few dented controllers lie in this one's wake. And after several retries on Level 2, ending with my surrogate tumbling off the end or being crushed by the cubes, I decided I'd had enough of a sample. The game certainly delivers a level of tension - it becomes easy to panic and mark the wrong block, or get out of synch with one's intended strategy, marking when one means to capture and vice-versa. But the basic gameplay doesn't really change - the first level is tricky, and the second one demands faster thinking and more agile reflexes. And, I imagine, Intelligent Qube continues to get more complex and challenging, with tougher block patterns and faster tumbling. Level 2 ups the ante significantly, with more black cubes and larger sections of tumbling blocks - three or four rows of granite death to contend with, instead of the two we started out with.

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