Burdaloo Review

29Jun/110

Think Beach Boys or Jan and Dean when you hear the surfer music while playing Mac match game Burdaloo. With that in mind, relax and have fun matching the colorful crazy looking birds on the playful Hawaiian islands.

Go from island to island matching 3 or more same colored birds to make them fly off the vines. You click on a row and move the burds from side to side or up and down. This is similar to Chuzzle, another fun play. In order to complete the level, you fill the silhouetted burds at the left for one form of the match game. Other forms of play are to not let the burds reach the top of the screen, match burds in order given or match the burds to the small pattern on the left.

There are rankings given to you on how well you accomplished your goals in each level. They are gold, silver and green. You can always go back to better your score. Also there is the ever present shop where you can buy upgrades. The first item is free, but you will need burdaloons to pay for the other gently used products. An interesting shop buy is the paint that will cause all of the birds of the same color to fly away and clear out your board. Lots of fun shop buys to unlock.

It is not all fun and games, there are blocks in this play in the form of black burds called Herman. They will block you from sliding the rows either horizontally or vertically if they are sitting in your way. Also the foliage will impede you from moving the rows. As the game progresses, so do the blocks from Herman to less matches, but that’s the fun of it so keep trying. You can always come back to that location on the island if you wish. You can always play in the Zen mode. It’s the endless play.

Burdaloo is just plain fun match game to play and listen to the ukulele music while watching the colorful and stylistic artwork of Hawaiian backgrounds. The burds are cute and funny with their own personalities. Enjoy yourself.