[h2] There are some nice ideas in this game but it is far too easy and therefore only the achievements and high scores will be any motivation for you continuing. Even then, because of the easiness of the game, all of the modes can be beaten in ninety minutes and more than likely you will quit at that point. [/h2]
I liked the idea of a Arkanoid brick breaker clone paired with a Galaxian type Space Invader game play, and it should be an excellent mix, but there's just not enough excitement to keep your interest unfortunately.
For a start, you cannot destroy any of the blocks until you collect a power up that allows you to do this. Sometimes, it can be a couple of minutes before it slowly drifts down to your bat and you can start blasting away. Okay, that would work if in the meantime you were kept busy will alien invaders, but nothing much happens until you get the power up, which can mean minutes of just waiting around. I was literally drinking my cup of tea whilst waiting. There are a few solitary invaders that make an appearance in that time but they are no bother to kill and never threaten you.
Once you do have the power up in your arsenal it doesn't take too long to blast away the bricks and complete the level, and this is the story of the game. On later levels with lots of bricks, things do become more difficult, as hitting bricks releases enemies, and at one point it felt quite exciting with swarms and swarms of enemies buzzing away at me like angry wasps, and I really enjoyed that part, but then I realized that if you bump into one of them the whole swarm is defeated and you lose one of your fifty lives, and it went back to being easy again.
[h1]🎬Gameplay Video🎬[/h1]
https://youtu.be/tz3ylFsQHk0
Fifty lives is just a ridiculous amount of lives to have, and it is so easy to gain lives as well, so I maintained my fifty lives through all of the campaigns and was never in danger of being defeated. I think the lowest I got was forty-two lives.. Each of the three campaigns has ten levels and the final level is the boss battle, and this is the only time that an enemy fires back at you. Breaking bricks does occasionally produce debris that flies off at angles, which can take a life, but didn't produce much danger in reality.
The three different campaigns felt exactly the same but just with a different aesthetic. Even the boss at the end was exactly the same, but I did like the idea of having a boss that moved around the screen firing at you.
The endless mode with a high score table is far too easy also, and I got bored playing it after four hundred thousand points and eighth on the leader board. I doubt it would be much hardship to get to number one but I just couldn't be bothered as the game play was incredibly repetitive and took far too long to get going. In the twenty levels I played almost all of them were identical and contained so few bricks that one power up destroyed them all. This mode really needs to ramp up the difficulty much sooner.
[h1]🍳Conclusion🍳[/h1]
[quote][h2][b] I liked the concept on offer here, but it just wasn't executed well enough for a recommend unfortunately. It is far too easy and enemies have no attack patterns, do not fire at you, and the amount of lives you are awarded is far too much.
With a few changes this could prove to be a winner but at the moment there's too many things stopping any enjoyment being had. [/b][/h2][/quote]
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