Tetrobot and Co. Purchased through Trickery!

This weekend I fell victim to some of the oldest advertising tricks in the book.  Limited time offer!  Limited quantities!  Get it before we run out!  I was casually checking gog.com to see if there were any classic games that might be on sale.  They were having some sort of flash sale that included the original and reduced price and a countdown that indicated that there were only a few games left!  I had absolutely no intention of actually buying a game, but found myself wanting to buy it.  Sure, it was only $2.49, but I was mentally kicking myself for falling to the same old tricks.  As soon as the number went under 20, I hit the buy button.  That's how I ended up buying Tetrobot and Co.

Tetrobot and Co. is a cute puzzler that I was intrigued by after I unlocked a character in Cook, Serve, Delicious.  In it you command a robot with very simple point and click controls.  The goal is to navigate levels filled with different obstacles and puzzles.  Another goal is to find special "memory blocks" that will unlock pictures that help to tell the story about how the different robots came into being.  So far I've learned there is a girl who engineers the robots and that the idea to create them came from a dream.  I think, anyway.  Here's the trailer that actually explains the premise and shows a little gameplay.

I buzzed through the initial levels of Tetrobot fairly easily.  Then the puzzles got much more challenging.  Your cute little robot can grab certain blocks of material and save them for later use--you can only carry 6 blocks at a time and at certain points there places where you lose whatever blocks you are carrying (like in Portal where certain particle walls would disintegrate any cubes you were carrying).  The blocks of material--called "blox"--have certain special properties.  Wood blocks can be burned when placed on a laser.  Sand blocks...well, I've only figured out that they're made of sand.  Stone blocks will completely stop a laser beam with no damage.  Blocks of similar material will stick together--so if you have two wood blocks you can shoot them at each other and make a sort of platform.  I got stuck on a level that required you to create shapes with the blocks.  I really wanted to get all the memory blocks, but I just couldn't figure out how to make one certain shape that seemed to require blocks to float.  I tried every possible way I could think of and the only thing I accomplished was giving myself a headache.

For only $2.49 I don't feel so bad for falling for the same old advertising tricks.  Tetrobot and Co. has been entertaining and promises to keep giving me headaches for many more hours.