This should be a lesson to game designers: forcing the player to put more hours than he normally would have only makes him/her notice the little things that are wrong (repetitive sound design, aberrant mallet behaviour on some occasions, too many menus.). Which is sad, because the grinding slowly kills a game that had good efforts put into it (there's decent writing, overall good controls, balanced AI). Overall this game surprised me with how fun it is and I feel I will be sinking many hours into it.Īn OK little game to remember the original game from the nineties with some flaws that cannot be overlooked.Ĭlearly designed originally as a free-to-play (an insame amount of challenges, in-game achievements requiring 50+ hours of gameplay and more than a thousand matches to win, different sort of currencies, XP, slot machine, etc.), these mechanisms only strenghten the impression of a lack of content. However, you can just play a different character upon getting too annoyed. So their catchphrases can get old quickly. When you score on characters they perform the same action upon every point you win against them. There is also a leveling system in which you unlock different coin boosts for the particular modes.Ī couple minors gripes I have are the lack of multiplayer and some annoying quirks of the characters. In fact you can unlock the mallets your opponents use to unlock their shots. Mallets and pucks of varying abilities are able to be unlocked. The unlock system adds complexity to the game. A survival mode is also available where one strike against you results in the game being over. There is also a bet mode in which you can bet up to a set number of coins on the match. There is a simple duel mode in which you battle your opponent up to a certain amount of points. You can play a variety of modes against each opponent. The opponents you face in the beginning don't have very tricky shots but the shots of later opponents are very intense and hard to combat. Each opponent you face off against has a special shot they perform once powered up. It is apparent there is much replay value to this game. This is a unique air hockey inspired game.
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