I still remember when I was a kid, I would run to the video game store with my pocket money in hand and look through the piles of colorful pirated cards. There are dozens of games crammed into one card, and the covers are all printed randomly, with words like "100-in-1" and "500-in-1". In fact, many of them are duplicates, but you never know what surprises are hidden in the next card.
Recently, I was browsing Koon on my mobile phone and accidentally discovered this "Colorful Rope Sorting 3D Version", which immediately took me back to that summer. The gameplay is very simple, just sort out the mess of colored ropes by moving the nodes so that they no longer overlap. There are 200 levels in total, and the difficulty slowly climbs, becoming more and more brain-burning as you go to the end. There are actually similar rope-untying games on the original handheld console, such as "Knot Master" on the GBA, but that one was a 2D plane. Now this one is made into a 3D perspective. The rope has a three-dimensional effect and is more intuitive to drag.
To be honest, when I was playing pirated cassettes when I was a kid, what I was most afraid of was that the archive function would be cut off. Some pirates simply cut off the battery memory, shutting down the game halfway through the game and starting over again. This mobile game version is better, it saves automatically, the level progress is clear, and you can quit and continue playing at any time, which is really good. But to be honest, although the picture has become more refined, I still miss the simple pixel-style interface of the past. A picture with a white background and black lines, I can stare at it for half an hour without getting tired of it.
There are still several GBA roms lying around in the mobile phone simulator. This Android phone is also equipped with "Colorful Rope Sorting", so you can secretly solve a few levels while fishing at work. 200 levels is not too much, not too much. Each level only takes a few minutes, which is just enough time to entertain yourself. The developer is a company in Shenzhen. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements. It is clean and tidy, just like the pirated cassette of the past. You can just plug it into the machine and play without so many twists and turns.
If you are like me and miss those pirated cassettes you bought with your pocket money and want to find a simple game, you might as well give this a try. After completing 200 levels, you will feel that you have regained your focused and patient self. 🎉