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Wetrix GB came out for the Game Boy Color in 1998, published by Ocean. It was part of that wave of puzzle games trying to do something different on the handheld, a time when developers were experimenting with how to make falling block games feel new. You don't just clear lines here; you're tasked with managing a whole landscape.

You control the falling pieces, which are blocks of land, and your job is to catch and rotate them to build walls and basins. The main objective is to contain water droplets that fall from the sky, creating lakes, and then to use bombs to vaporize the water before it overflows and causes a flood. Two key mechanics define the game: you can also freeze the water into ice, which you must then carefully melt with fireballs, and earthquakes will periodically tilt your entire landscape, threatening to spill everything. The pacing starts deceptively calm but the difficulty ramps up quickly as meteors and more frequent disasters are introduced. It feels like a constant, tense battle against the elements, where one small mistake can undo all your careful work.