Cubivore for GameCube Reviews by Gamers

Does seeing squares rearranged into different patters excite you? Well then you will probably enjoy Cubivore. Unfortunately you are probably also 3 years old.

Cubivore is a game about evolution. You play as an aspiring cube who one day hopes to become king of the cubivores. Of course the only way to do this is to eat other cubes and change into their shape.

Cubes can be between 1 and 6 sections and come in 5 different colors which are divided into 3 different hues. Each color has a different dominant trait. For instance purple backs up very quickly and blue can pounce very far. The darker the hue you are the more powerful you are and the more sections you have the more complex and powerful your cube is.

Gameplay basically consists of hopping around eating other cubes and then mutating into their species. You begin as a 1 section cubivore and so eating 1 section of red with turn you red. After you have hopped around to the end of a level you will find a boss cube who is usually a little larger and stronger than the native cubes. Each time you beat a boss cube you gain a piece of "raw meat". "Raw meat" gives you some sort of power up such as dashing or extra defense. Once you have a new piece of raw meat you get to mate. Mating produces an offspring with one more section that you already had. After you are finished mating you get to hop around and eat more cubes, this time with an extra section so in order to turn a color you need to eat two of that color and eventually three and four and so on.

This repetitive gameplay wears thin pretty quickly. I found myself bored after only a few hours of play. Battling and eating the cubes is almost always the same. You simply lock on and leap at them until they have no health.

The only upside is the "catch em all" motif in which the game urges you to try and mutate into all of the possible color combinations. Unfortunately this involves eating the same dull enemies over and over again.

Quirky but boring.