Hexic was originally developed by Carbonated Games and was released on the MSN Games online service in July 2003. The gameplay music from Hexic HD, released with the Xbox 360 in 2005, is from the album Hexophilia, an experiment in loop-based composition composed by Jerry Schroeder.
The game is over if all pieces on the playfield become locked. If the player successfully clears the entire playfield or survives fifty rounds, they win the game. Forming a flower unlocks all pieces on the board and causes all pieces the same color as the center piece in the flower to clear from the board. Clearing clusters with bonus stars causes nearby locked pieces to become unlocked. Instead, the player forms clusters and flowers until no more moves are possible, then any remaining pieces are locked in place and all open spaces are filled with new pieces. Unlike in Marathon and Timed modes, clearing pieces from the playfield does not automatically cause new ones to fall from the top. Survival mode challenges the player to completely clear the playfield. Creating starflowers also increases the maximum amount of time available, up to two minutes. The amount of time increases with successful clears, and resets to its maximum value when the player forms a starflower. Hexic offers two variations on the standard Marathon mode: In Timed mode, a timer constantly counts down toward zero, and the game ends when time runs out. Defusing a bomb by clustering it with at least one multiplier piece of the same colour causes all pieces of the same colour as the bomb to instantly clear from the playfield. The counter on the bomb counts down with each move, and if allowed to reach zero, it explodes and the game is over. A bomb is coloured like other pieces on the board and can be defused by rotating it into a cluster or flower of the same colour. The ultimate goal of the game is to form a cluster or flower of black pearls, after which the game will end.īombs appear occasionally throughout the game. Forming a flower of silver-stars changes the center piece into a black pearl, which allows the player to move three surrounding pieces in a Y or inverted Y pattern. A gold-star allows the player to rotate all surrounding pieces clockwise or counterclockwise. The surrounding pieces are cleared, and the center piece is replaced by a silver-star (unless the center piece was already a silver-star, in which case a new silver-star drops from the top). The player can create a "gold-star" by arranging six like-coloured pieces into a hexagon or "flower", surrounding a piece of a different colour or type. Bonuses are awarded for clearing more than three pieces at a time, and some pieces contain bonus stars, which yield extra points and can clear larger groups of pieces depending on how they are cleared. Pieces above the cleared pieces fall, potentially forming more clusters and causing chain reactions, and new pieces appear at the top of the playfield. Clusters are formed when three pieces of the same colour touch each other. There are no buggy, discontinued, unobtainable or missable achievements.The objective of Hexic is to rotate hexagonal pieces of various colours and clear them from the playfield by forming clusters or flowers.
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All achievements can be won offline and without a Gold Xbox Live account and the time to complete is variable due to the skill involved on the higher ratio achievements, ranging from as quick as five hours but can take ten times that, but you should be aiming for a fifteen hour completion.
This game is quite a tough completion, as indicated by the TA ratio on several achievements. This can take many hours of heavy concentration and playing.
Keep playing "Marathon Mode" until you get all the other achievements in the game. This game mode isn't good for any other miscellaneous achievements.Ĥ). Choose the goal of getting to level 50 because it will make it a lot harder on yourself if you don't. The last game mode, "Survival Mode" is next with its own unique achievement for clearing off the whole screen or by passing level 50. There is really no need to grind that achievement because it will come in time while you’re trying to get the other achievements.ģ). This mode is easiest only to boost the achievement "Hexic Addict" so other than that, it is not the best choice of game type. One game of 75,000 points is required for that achievement to be attained. Next is the "Timed Mode", which also has one unique achievement, called "Tick-Tock Doc".
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