A stone frog, a chain of marbles crawling toward the golden skull, and twenty years going by.

The profile is clear, and merciless. Attachment, desert island, art style: all sit very low, from the bottom tenth down to the floor of the ranking. The wish to rediscover it for the first time only beats 4% of the games, and the soundtrack lands almost dead last. But the mechanics hold: fun sits just above average, and the controller feel puts it ahead of 79% of titles, though that rests on a single duel, so treat it as very much unconfirmed.

That is the usual fate of pure arcade games faced with these questions. What gets measured here is emotion, the mark left behind, the visuals, the OST. Zuma does not play on that field. It plays on reflex, trajectory, score, the short loop. What makes it good is simply not what it is being asked about.

So, who is it for? For you if you love a clean shot, chaining combos and watching the counter climb for no reason other than the pleasure of the motion. Much less so if you want a game to tell you something, or to still be in your head years later.