Honeycomb Beat

Nintendo exclusive

The first music-driven puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, Honeycomb Beat features intuitive touch screen gameplay and more than 200 unique puzzles to energize your mind. Solve each puzzle by touching on a Honeycomb tile, which will change the colors of the tiles around it. Line up tiles of the same color to eliminate them or create different shapes and patterns. Solve mind-bending challenges of increasing complexity in Puzzle Mode, or play through Evolution Mode where the board advances upwards and you have to eliminate lines before it's too late.

Released: 10 August 2006
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genres: Puzzle Rhythm
Developers: Hudson Soft
Publishers: Hudson Soft
Modes: Single-player
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB E

About

Honeycomb Beat, known in Japan as Nōnai Kakusei Honeycomb Beat, is a puzzle video game developed by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo DS and mobile phones. It features touch screen gameplay and more than 200 unique puzzles. In the game, players use a stylus or their fingers to clear puzzles.

Keywords

abstract
high score
hexagon

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Reception

The DS version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two sevens, one eight, and one seven for a total of 29 out of 40. GamePro said of the game, "If tile-pattern puzzles are your cup of tea, this game might be the honey."