Game review: Waterfalls 3

Waterfalls 3 is a physics-puzzle game primarily utilizing particle effects and made by MoonMana.To get through the levels, the player must use the available redirection nodes to fill the goals with the corresponding particles.

Summary of analysis
Quick new player experience, enjoyable gameplay experience, mouse-controlled game with bare minimum interface, highly visually appealing, risky choice in background music.

Tutorial/New player experience
The game has very little in tutorial elements, leaving a new player to figure out the puzzles through experimentation. Given the nature of Waterfalls 3 as a puzzle game in addition to the gameplay, it's likely this was a good idea as walking players through each level with hints may strip away too much.

Gameplay experience
In my experience with the game, there was a rather low amount of difficulty in progressing the levels at least until the higher ones, where I needed a lengthy amount of time to start reconditioning the skills I'd learned in the lower levels in order to have the particles redirected in less expected ways and combine the efforts of multiple nodes in less direct solutions, including one where I played hot potato with the nodes in order to get the solution.
I will definitely say that Waterfalls 3 was fun and worth the try, my one regret being the limited availability of levels to play.

Interface & Controls
Mouse-only control scheme with very minimal interface.

Graphics
Simple and reasonably descriptive nodes with vibrant particle effects. While easily described, it hardly does credit to the visual appeal of the game's graphics.

Music & Sound
Throughout gameplay there was a relaxing background music featuring a singer. This began to lose its appeal over time as music with words is extremely hard to effectively loop without starting to become a nuisance. As I happened to like the style, I was able to listen to it a lot longer than I expect those with differing tastes in music would.

Commentary
All three of the games in the series share most of the same mechanics, making them easy extensions of one another. I recommend starting with Waterfalls 3 as it's seems to have the lowest difficulty curve due to having had the most time for level design to be refined.