Blokus is one of those board games that only takes a few minutes to explain: you get a bunch of oddly shaped blocks (a la Tetris) and have to fit them all onto a board with ONLY their corners touching (which is a lot harder than it sounds). Which color you’re playing (blue, yellow, red or green) determines your turn order - so yo🌊ur strategy will depend largely on the luck of the draw at the beginning of a match. The only drawback to playing this game on the PSP that we can see so far is waiting for the A.I. to make a move. Nobody likes a smartass A.I. that owns you in half a second; but it can be a real drag to wait while the computer thinks the first move of the game over for a full 10 seconds.

Time will tell if Blokus Portable lives up (or down) to the franchises from which it's made. Given that the board game has won tons of internation🐼al awards and Steambot Chronicles has at least some name recognition, you'd think that there's hope for their love child.