Wetrix

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Imagine Tetris if the falling pieces were landscaping tools and the real enemy was rain. That is Wetrix, the cult Nintendo 64 puzzler from Zed Two, the independent studio founded by brothers Ste and John Pickford, published by Ocean in 1998. Nintendo Power summed it up as a mixture of Tetris and Populous, and that pairing still captures the odd, compelling feel of a game where you never clear a single line. Instead you are sculpting a small floating island so it can hold water.

Uppers, blocky pieces in rectangle, square and T shapes, raise the ground wherever they land, so you build walls and ridges to form basins. Downers carve the terrain back down. Then the water arrives, and anything you have not walled in runs off the edge into a drain meter; let that drain fill and the game is over. Fireballs vaporize your lakes for big points and lower the drain, mines blast holes straight through carefully built dams, ice cubes freeze the surface solid, and build the land too high and an earthquake flattens it. Every decision pulls in two directions at once: bigger lakes mean bigger scores, and bigger risks.

The N64 version gives the idea plenty of room. Classic is the core game, Pro speeds everything up, Practice walks you through the rules, and Challenge sets timed runs and fixed piece counts to survive. Handicap starts you off in trouble, with a half-full drain, a layer of ice, raised or random land, or random holes already punched in the ground. The two-player split-screen battle turns your own water level into ammunition against a friend's island, which makes for a very different kind of couch rivalry.

Critics praised its originality and addictive pull, along with water effects and an ambient techno soundtrack that give long sessions a hypnotic, late-night quality. It was also tough, and that difficulty is part of the appeal now: the gap between a calm, tidy lake and a total flood can be three bad pieces. Wetrix later resurfaced on Dreamcast as Wetrix+ and led to a PlayStation 2 follow-up, Aqua Aqua, but the N64 cartridge is where it found its biggest audience, and nothing else in the N64 library plays quite like it.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1998
Publisher
Ocean Software
Developer
Zed Two
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game

A rainstorm so fierce, it will keep you from leaving your home for the next six months. Using randomly shaped 3D blocks as they fall from the sky, you must create a series of lakes and dams before the heavy rains appear. Because if the water drains, you lose! Sound simple? Well, mix in a few natural disasters and bomb attacks, and suddenly you need to muster all your strategy and skill to combat nature's fury!

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Watch gameplayWetrix on Nintendo 64
Video: Wetrix

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