It's a copy of a copy of a copy... Like you said yourself Sebastianos, Collums itself wasn't that original and you are talking about a copy of such a game which mean it's so unoriginal... This fact alone should bring the rating back at least to 4, ratings of 5 being reserved to real gems out there... Or at least I'd wish.
If this wasn't alone, there is also no point in adding points to the rating for the graphics, for even though they are high quality they are simply unpracticable. The board itself should have been bigger (and thus the gems smaller), you should be able to see the pieces better when they fall (right now you have no idea what is the second and third block of a pile unless you were fast enough to look at the "next piece" image... Which at high level is nigh impossible) and I was also finding more than strange that you just can't flip the piles horizontally. About a dozains of time when I tryied the game, I was frowning from this because it would have been perfect in the current setup to place the horizontal pile to clear several lines at once... But it's impossible. Plus, there is a blatant lack of very obvious options... Like for exemple a top score list??? In itself, the gameplay is by far pretty bland, no need for perfect 5 here.
When adding everything together, I thought that it was worth a 3. Since, however, I played a lot of similar games which were way better than this one, and probably earlier to this game too (I played a few on consoles and a few others shareware), I decided that 3 was even maybe a little too high and that's why I've settled for a 2.
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