Dreamstones

Dreamstones is a competent brick breaker game and probably my favorite game from Windybeard I have played so far. The game has over 200 levels with a decent amount of variety in level design. The game feels good to play because you have a lot of control over the ball with your paddle. You also get to customize your active and passive skills. Throughout my playthrough I changed my loadout frequently because as the difficulty increases you will need to adapt to the new challenges. Some minor issues: The game gets grindy towards the end if you are a completionist. It can be hard to distinguish background and foreground and the only solution the game has is to make the background grey. The passives for critchance don’t work. In some of the levels the ball can get stuck forever, even if it unstucks itself after a couple of minutes the ball will be so fast it is uncontrollable. You can’t rebind the controls.

https://youtu.be/WKQARU8i98U The extra RPG elements add just enough new flavor to the break breaking foundation to hook players. Picking skills, upgrades, and other customization keeps refreshing the fun.

Good, fun brickbreaking game. But, A lot of tutorial popups in the first levels, let me play already! Story is childish at times, though the game has a fairly fast ball speed aimed more towards older players IMO. It could use an auditory/visual hint for when your cooldowns end.

An interesting take on the classic breakout format, pushing a colouful world with a big progression system containing twists such as RPG-like elements and active abilities. The world itself has a relaxed feel, and doesn't take itself too seriously. If you enjoy block-breaking, looking at pretty colours or progression in general, this is probably a good fit.

A classic breakout game thrown into a generic but funny story and provided with a sometimes insanely hard gameplay. Fortunately there are many skills and weapons to use and combine so it's playable, but still there are areas that made me boil. Haven't played it through as the last world is a new level of unfair mockery, need more patience and time and tranquilizers. For the same reason it's so satisfying to actually do a level with the required scores. 7/10

i love it. finished 100%. lovely "levels" "maps, game world

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Just in case anyone is having a look at this in 2024 or later, I'd advise skipping it, primary for the inconsistency with the physics (rebound angles) that other people have mentioned. You can probably get through the first three or four areas without this being too offensive, but the further on you go, the harder that game is and therefore precision moves from important to crucial. I'm in the last area of the game and I don't know if I can bring myself to finish it. It's a shame, because it is a fun Arkanoid-inspired game, but for a game to become increasingly un-fun the further you go due to poor execution means you're better off not starting down the path.