I'm really sorry about this

[davidn]

Apparently not feeling like he had unleashed enough suffering on the world, Qrostar - the creator of Hanano Puzzle - has released another puzzle game. This one is called Jelly Puzzle, or something like it, and will be instantly familiar to anyone who played the previous one - it features more coloured blocks and infuriating PxTone music in prime-numbered time signatures, this time with a higher-resolution Worms 2-ish aesthetic.


HOW THE HELL ARE YOU MEANT TO DO THIS

Have fun with this one, because this time around, non-Japanese speakers don't even get the benefit of instructions! Left-click to move a block left, right-click to move it right. Blocks of the same colour (blue, not-blue and other) placed adjacent to each other merge together. That's all I've been able to work out so far. The solution to level 1 is not among these things.

I'm not 100% sure as to the goal of the game yet (though it's probably to eliminate all the 1-block pieces), but after the last one, I think the only thing this author would ask you to do with jelly is attempt to nail it to the ceiling.

Get it here or here - and say goodbye to your brain.

Comments

[premchaia_pre4]

(very approximate) “The rules are simply explained. Below, there are colorful jellies. Left clicking moves left, and right clicking moves right. When the same colors of jelly touch, they cling and become one. To clear the level, put all jelly of the same color together. You can restart any number of times. That's all. Good luck⁓ (It may be much harder than it appears…)”

I've finished level 1 now.

[premchaia_pre4]

Once you get to level 4 (again very approximate): “Here's what we know up to here. Once-clinging jellies cannot be cut. There is no way to lift jellies.
The motion of jellies pushes on neighboring jellies. The undo button restores only one state.”

[davidn]

Well, thank you so much :) Helps not a jot with my current situation, but it's nice to know that I'm not missing some amazing property that suddenly makes the game able to be completed by mortals.

[premchaia_pre4]

Level 7: “Stationary jellies do not move.”

(I suspect that's the last one.)

*peers at your current situation curiously*

[davidn]

Thanks, game - very helpful!

I'm on level 8 now, though I can't remember how I solved level 6. This one may take some time.

[premchaia_pre4]

You're awake! I just got to the beginning of 10. 9 says “Dark blocks also move.” 8's solution (at least the one I used) involves n gjb ba bar fgnpx naq n punve.

(appended) There's a level that combines the new mechanics from 9 and 7. o.o

(appended 2) 10 took a bit. 11 through 15 were pretty easy. 16 is amusing…

[davidn]

I felt very good when I finally worked out the solution to 8 :) It - like so many of the other levels - involves breaking the pattern to do something quite unexpected...

I was similarly flabbergasted when I saw the... affixed-mobile mutant! Thankfully, that level only had one configuration in which it was possible to join the yellows around the block, but... I fear what's to come. Once I got into the mindset, I was able to get through another run of levels fairly easily. I think I'm on level 15 now, which would have been a fairly benign bridge-building puzzle in any other game.