Be one with the stone from the toss to the splash.
Kersploosh! is a puzzle video game developed by Poisoft and published by Nintendo and released on Nintendo 3DS eShop in 2011 as a launch title for the service. In the game the player takes control of an object that has just been thrown down a well and must steer the object safely to the bottom of the well. The player must avoid objects in the well like cookies, moving planks, and cannons while also collecting donuts to increase speed and popping balloons to restore HP to the object. The object will break if it loses all HP. The game features ten wells and several unlockable objects.The game contains the following tropes:
- Appease the Volcano God: Subverted. It's actually an act to Appease the Well Spirit when someone drops the plate item down the well in an attempt to calm down a spirit that they feel needs nine plates.
- Bizarre Puzzle Game: An object is thrown down a well, move it to make sure you can get it to the bottom quickly without the object breaking!
- Didn't Think This Through:
- The watermelon gets dropped in the well when two people are paying a visit to the countryside where the well is located and one decides to drop a watermelon in the well to clean it. The other person asks how they plan to retrieve it.
- The wooden fish gets dropped in the well by someone who decides that a fish needs to be in water to swim.
- Heirloom Engagement Ring: Subverted because even though the jewel item is dropped in during a conversation between a couple where the person that fumbles the ring into the well says they found it on the floor at their mother's house, it is not specified that the person with the ring is about to engage.
- Hollywood Darkness: No matter how deep the wells get, they are always brightly lit.
- It's All Junk: The iron ball is a shot-put ball that gets thrown down the well when its owner decides it's not worth keeping it anymore as they are retiring from the sport.
- Made of Indestructium: The bouncy ball. It has infinite HP and always bounces harmlessly against everything, but is the slowest to get going again after hitting something. It is basically the game's Easy Mode.
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Nintendo Hard: With only just ten levels, it's more challenging than you would think to get an item to the bottom. - No Plot? No Problem!: The game does not have a centralized plot that explains why every character is gathering at the same well and dropping objects in.
- Tech-Demo Game: As a launch title for the 3DS eShop it shows us the 3D display and the system's analog control.
- Thrown Down a Well: The main premise of the game is that objects are being thrown down a well and the player must steer them safely to the bottom.
- Very False Advertising: The person that throws the bouncy ball down the well is upset because the bouncy ball advertised that it will "bring your whole family fun and joy" but it instead wound up destroying his family.
