Godzilla Voxel Wars

Godzilla Voxel Wars is a single-player turn-based puzzle game akin to doing chess puzzles, e.g. given a certain setup of pieces, can you checkmate in three moves? There is a multi-player mode where you can build new levels and play levels made by others. I did not try this mode.

My wife and I got about 42 hours of mostly-fun out of the game before beating it completely.

THE GOOD:

• It's got all your favourite kaiju!
• Great variety of easy, medium, and difficult puzzles
• You earn hint tickets along the way that you can use to get you past really difficult puzzles you can't solve.
• Finding a perfect solution to a level is difficult, but it's fairly easy to find an imperfect solution.

THE BAD:

• Many of the missions involve trying to guess how the enemies are going to move and this can be frustrating. They follow deterministic rules, but the rules are somewhat convoluted and so for levels that had open terrain and lots of enemies I typically needed hints for the first few rounds so I could actually solve the last round. This usually happened after a long time fiddling and trying different options before shrugging and giving up.
• Are you Bobby Fischer? No? Then the odds are high that you will not be able to figure out the perfect triple platinum star solution to every level.
• It's got a goofy plot of sorts, which builds up to final battles that don't actually make much sense. For example, in the second final battle, the viewpoint character's father writes that he can't escape because of the Mushroom Tower. You then fight the King Mushroom, not the Mushroom Tower, and yet somehow this frees the father anyway. OK, whatever.