Soul Bubbles

Tomorrow, Dec. 18, Toys R Us has a coupon deal for the Nintendo DS game Soul Bubbles. Presumably (since the fine print states the coupon can’t be combined with other offers), you can’t also take advantage of the $10 gift card with purchase of Soul Bubbles going on through Dec 21. But that’s what I thought about the Sunday-Monday Soul Bubbles sale, and then I saw on Twitter someone had been able to combine them and get the game essentially free. The moral: It never hurts to try.

Soul Bubbles is a game that has been praised by reviewers as an undiscovered jewel, yet sales and consumer recognition haven’t been as strong. Part of this apparently has to do with the fact that much of the distribution of the game has been focused on Toys R Us stores. (Soul Bubbles is also available via sellers on Amazon.)

I haven’t played the game myself, so I can’t offer first-person-experience input, but essentially it’s a puzzle game in which you (the player) are a young shaman, assigned with the responsibility of caring for “lost souls,” which are protected in bubbles that you guide with the stylus. Yeah, trippy. But apparently people love it and find it a relaxing game. With the price so decent, it’s definitely worth considering strongly.

If you have a Nintendo Wii, you can use the DS Download service to sample the game on your DS. You can also visit the official Soul Bubbles homepage.