Reviews

The best puzzle game on the Speccy by a huge margin and IMO one of the Speccies greatest ever games.

I've played it to completion so many times but have never once got bored of it.

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that it's a better puzzle game than Tetris (on any platform).

Magazine Reviews: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/search.aspx?wosid=0004770

A fantastic puzzle game. Possibly the best for the Spectrum.

The graphics are great, gameplay is brilliant, great sound as well, and if only the themes on each puzzle were a bit less 80's personality influenced, the game would still appeal today to younger audiences.

This game was riddled with copyright problems for being too close to the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and was thus re-issued as Split Personalities. It's a very popular puzzle game and I never got to grips with it at all. And I read of people finishing the game multiple times and I can't even complete the first one, I'm rubbish. The graphics are really good and the idea is clever but it always came off as confusing for me, it did back then and it does so even more now. Never was one of my favourites.

Split Personalities was published as Splitting Images first, then due to the similarity of its title with that of a British TV show called Spitting Images, it was renamed as Split Personalities. For this reason, my review below is copied and pasted from that of SP, except for the obvious name change towards the end ;-)

A great puzzle games where you must put together the portraits of some celebrities from Ronald Reagan to Marilyn Monroe (although to this day I still don't understand who the couple of level 8 is supposed to be). The catch is that you cannot just put the pieces into place and get away with it; the walls of the assembling area get progressively filled with cracks which push the blocks away when hit. You play against a time limit and on later levels, pieces will also push each other if there is not an obstacle in their direction.

Apart from the puzzle pieces, you will also find several icons. Some can give you more points or time, or even kill you instantly when colliding each other (the gas can and the lit match). You also have to stay alert for bombs - which can be neutralized with a faucet icon for 5000 points.

Splitting Images is a puzzle game with fast arcade traits. Original, well-presented and addictive. A real classic.