SLACKERJACK – Gift Shop
As you've probably established by now, Christmas is coming. And, as such, some of the Slackerjacks that we'll paste up here between now and the 25th will reflect the true meaning of Christmas; ferocious unbridled commercialism.
Gift Shop aptly demonstrates this. On the surface, Gift Shop is one of those puzzle games that you've seen a jillion times already. You line up the coloured balls and make them disappear, for level after level after level. But Gift Shop is different, because it's a bit Christmassy and stuff. For instance, instead of lining up coloured balls, you line up coloured baubles. Clever, huh? And also Gift Shop has a sort of vaguely ill-fitting storyline about flogging off Christmas tat to frantic customers that we didn't understand very well. Whatever the hell's supposed to be going on, it doesn't stop Gift Shop from having unusually edge-of-the-seat gameplay that you're bound to love. Or at least like a lot.
