I've never really considered myself a puzzle gaming fan, but over the past 2 weeks i've been playing them like crazy, and I realized what a great time this is for them right now.
Some of the best puzzlers in years (or perhaps ever) are showing up as cheap downloadable purchases. Orbient and World of Goo for WiiWare are both original and excelent puzzle games that recently released for bargain prices. Tetris Party also released for the wii this past Monday--and though I havent played it yet--based upon previews and reviews its still tetris and still one of the best.
Portal: Still Alive for the 360 came out on Wednesday... and I took a sick day. I never played the Orange box and had about 3 non-stop hours to dedicate to it... it did not disappoint.
all of this, and even the PS3 had one extremely original and engaging puzzler come out this year with echochrome.
Collectively, all of these puzzlers will provide you with TONS of entertainment, and if even you bought all of them you'd only be out about $75! There's no doubt this has to be one of the best periods for puzzlers...EVER.
