There may be some jaw dropping 3D-based games coming out on MMC for the N-Gage, but you should never forget the other area which makes this a great games machine. The small, downloadable 'Over the Air' Java games that you can get online, through your network's portal, or through those adverts at the back of The Sun.

Super Yum Yum is one of those Java games, and it's absolutely infuriating in a way that reminds you of puzzle games gone by.

You play Leon the Chameleon, who lives for one reason. To eat fruit. But he's no ordinary chameleon. Because he can only eat fruit that is the samecolour as his body. Given that there are four colours of fruit available (red, blue, green and yellow) that presents him with a weide variety. But how does he change skin colour? Well the fruits can have different coloured leaves. Let's imagine Leon's skin is red. If you eat a red fruit with yellow leaves, then you'll turn yellow. So can eat a yellow fruit, which might have blue leaves. So you turn blue. And so on and so on till you manage to eat all the fruits on the level you're on.

Being a chameleon, you have one missing attribute. You can't jump. And as each level has some handy walls, you need to remember you can only climb up steps to get to these raised levels. If you need to go from one wall to another, then you'll need to use your long tounge to grab a fruit on another wall, and pull yourself over.

So two ingredients, while not amazing on their own, become rather tasty when combined in this original puzzle game. Pukka!

But with ingredients, you needa good recipe, or level design in this case to get away from the Jamie Oliver references. And the level designs are devious, to say the least. Most levels only have one solution. Sometimesit's pretty clear, sometimes the way forward takes forever to find.

One of the good things is that if you get stuck on alevel, you can skip it and move to another leve. They're grouped in sets of nine, and while you can tackle each set of nine in any order, skipping difficult levels, ulitmatly you'll need to collect every fruit, on every level, in every world to finish the game.

With primary colours being the basis of the game, it's nice to see that the fruits, the leaves and Leon himself are all crisp and clear. The 'two level' playing field is well defined as well, so no complaints there. The only area is the ground texture, which can get a bit complicated sometime and while it doesn't obscure anything, it does detract slightly.

Of course we're talking 2d, top down view here, so no snazzy 3d graphics, but frankly you don't need them. The gameplay is everything in Super Yum Yum, and that's what counts.

Summary

We're looking at around two weeks of puzzling from Super Yum Yum, which is a pretty good strike rate for a Java Midlet Game. It's clear and crisp to watch, the rules are staggeringly easy, and it's well worth a look. My only worry is that levels are either very easy or incredibly hard, there doesn't seem to be a nice middle ground.

Ewan Spence