Big Kahuna Reef review by Absolutist. Discover Sea Turtles and other aquatic life as you break open boxes in this classic style matching game.

Definitely one can say what can be new in puzzles? Thousands of them are played every day online or at home PCs. Thousands I said? Probably million kinds of them. Some of them are only to play once and some you'll enjoy for many many years. One of these games is Big Kahoona Reef by Reflexive.

So what is hot here? I can say only one word - EVERYTHIG! This simple game based on matching does grip all of you. Your task is to match pieces of undersea world vertically or horizontally. The game takes you to the bottom of the sea where you can enjoy dozens of fishes swimming around your puzzle. Great pseudo 3D graphic effects make you believe that your are really enjoying undersea adventures. You slide pieces on a wooden board opening blue squares.

Easy? No way. New figures will fill all free space on the board at once. You have definite time to open all the squares. This gives one more bonus to the game - arcade style. Game is full of bonuses but be careful - green shining fish will close your opened squares and even can double close but can double your bonus as well. If some time has passed and you did not remove any piece you can see hints showing you the pieces that can be removed from the board.
Feeling tired of reacting fast? Reflexive added one more cool feature - screensaver! Hide all the buttons and enjoy undersea world with kinds of fishes that you can add manually. If you tired of the same background you can choose between 3 different reefs. If you don't want to watch all of these - just set up a black screen background. To make things better invite your friends to join your adventures in multiplayer mode in Mouse Party.
The game installs quickly and has one hour limit to play. Big Kahoona Reef starts in a full screen mode.

You can choose what kind of game you want to play. In relaxed mode you can make your own levels or choose from the offered levels. Here you can start Mouse Party, see another games produced by Reflexive. Control your background and fish in My fish option. Tune video, graphic and audio options or exit the game.

Using My fish option you can choose reef background, kind number of fishes. I think 23 kinds are more then enough. All information of the fish you can read when you move mouse to the fish. Also you can choose screensaver here and relax. Screensaver of the game can be also set as screensaver at your PC.

Ready to play? Welcome to the Big Kahoona Reef adventures. Ancient totem shows the time you have to play by its color. Blue - full time. Green - enough. Yellow - better hurry up. And Red - time is almost gone. Also you can get a landing-net to remove any piece. But landing-net can be used only after definite number of the pieces removed.

At the bottom of the screen you can see number of your lives, level, your scores and main menu button.

The game automatically saves all the data and asks you on starting whether you want to resume the game, delete the level or start the game from any level you want. In the Audio options you can choose sounds of the game: whether you want to hear effects, ambient sounds, ocean waves or just listen to the music. Sometimes while finishing to play I just switch ocean waves and enjoy the sound of ocean and do my work.

What else can be said? No words can describe the keen pleasure you feel while playing. Its better to download it now and see everything yourself.