Think Before You Hit With X-Raye

Is X-Raye Really So Easy?

This flash game X-Raye seems really easy at first. In fact, on the first level I was complaining to myself that the game moved way too slowly. Okay, so here is how it works. You are a hammer (well it is some kind of tool anyway). In the first level you have five pegs next to each other and with your hammer you have to smack them until they turn yellow. Once they have all turned yellow (there are just four on the first level) you move to the next level. Okay that is easy enough I thought. In fact, the music irritated me as it was so slow, almost the kind of music you get when you walk in to a church before a funeral. I was beginning to wonder if this game was on the same league as other free flash games I had played on this site.

X-Raye Gets Harder Very Fast

I need not have been so sure of myself! X-Raye is really hard!! On the next level I got nowhere for ages. But then I started reading the tips in the game. The first tip was very helpful (use the spacebar to detach yourself from the current peg). It was that which was holding me back. I (as in me who was controlling the hammer) would just slip all the way down. But once I worked that out, on the second level I managed to hit all 3 pegs pretty easily. But then the next level gets even harder as you have to hit some of the pegs a few times to warrant a result and you are not sure which ones need to be hit a few times? so it is all trial and error and learning new things on all levels. But that is the fun of the game. I still think the game is a little bit slow and in future I will choose to play it without that deathly awful music (which makes it seem even slower) but other than that it makes a nice change with its different, albeit slower, pace.