Diamond Drop 2

Color-match games are rapidly becoming quite popular over the Internet, especially since there are many online alternatives that allow you to compete with your friends for points and even showcase your high scores on your Facebook timeline. However, the genre is not at all new and there have been a lot of games that used the very same ideas, spanning over a few decades now.

Diamond Drop 2 is one of these games and it basically plays out as you would expect, considering it asks you to collect a certain number of colored gems and raise a various amount of points in the process. However, there are a few differences as well, which is why every game in the genre is special in its own way, although maybe not entirely original.

Hence, it all revolves a cute little mole, who's actually a grown male by the name of Gary, working as a diamond miner. In order to put his work to good use, he decides to collect a variety of beautifully-colored gems for the love of his life, Angela. Naturally, she can only be satisfied by a certain number of diamonds and they have to alternate in color as well, otherwise all the effort is for nothing.

In case you are familiar with games like this, there are not too many ways they can play out, although there are always some minor modifications to slightly change the gameplay a bit. In the case of Diamond Drop 2, this gimmick lies in the fact that Gary can pick up the gems that are of the same color and throw them back into the stack, only this time he rearranges them vertically, causing them to smash together and give you points.

As far as the technical aspect is concerned, there are not to many things you can complain about, since everything looks quite well and there are plenty of colors floating around the levels. The character animation is amusing, while the particle effects make for some interesting explosions and sparkles whenever you manage to score a combo.

In the end, Diamond Drop 2 is definitely an addictive game, especially if you happen to have nothing better to do and you spend a few minutes getting hooked by it. However, the levels soon get rather repetitive, although that is the case with almost every title of this kind and the feeling goes away after you stop playing for a few hours.