![]() ![]() Throw a ball back and forth between your paddle and the brick wall - until the latter is completely destroyed. In our great collection of the best Brick games here on you can easily spend hours immersed in the colorful tile world. We’re always eager to hear from you.Brick Games are puzzle and tile games in which you use a ball to drop tiles, for example. If you have any comments on the list, disagree with the order, or want to highlight a brick-breaker that we’ve missed, then give us a buzz in the comments section below. ![]() But there are a couple of diamonds here, and hopefully this list has pushed them to the top for you. It’s understandable: it doesn’t take a huge amount of time and effort to knock-up an Arkanoid clone and make a swift buck. ![]() Not what you’d expect from a shoddy-looking Breakout clone, eh?ĭiving back into the library of brick-breakers that are still available on Xbox, it’s pretty clear that there’s a lot of dross. If you’re creatively inclined, the library of things you can add to a level is significant, almost tickling the lower end of a Super Mario Maker. There’s so much content in Doughlings: Arcade, and that’s multiplied by a big old ‘infinite’ by a superb level editor. DNA strands will also drop, turning your paddle into one of six doughling gods, raining devastation onto the brick battlefield. The most basic of these is the colour-ball which will turn the doughlings a single colour (each colour needs a different number of hits and have differing effects), grouping them together, creating chain reactions. As you destroy doughlings, they drop ‘likes’ down the screen collect ten of them and you’ll be treated to various effects. Paddles shouldn’t have eyes and hands, dammit.īut what makes Doughlings: Arcade number one is intuitive controls and a constant, satisfying feeling of progression. Its characters, the titular doughlings, are ugly, and – from screenshots – it doesn’t even look like a brick-breaker. It looks like an old 3DO game, a CD-ROM cast off. Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventureĭoughlings: Arcade doesn’t look like a number one contender. It might be slightly too quirky and far-removed from the genre for some, but we liked it – our review suggested it had “block-breaking thrills without too many spills” – and it’s a budget £4.19, so there’s that. There are three difficulty settings to adjust regardless. You also have the ability to attack back, and you can do a quasi-teleport thing to get out of the way, so it’s not quite as difficult as it sounds. To bat the ball back and forth, you are jumping onto platforms on the left-hand side of the screen, while enemies lob weapons at you from the right. You are the dog adventurer of the title, and you’ve got a magical ball that can destroy the defences of the enemy. ![]() It might hurt the head to imagine, but the splicing works surprisingly well. So it goes with Arkan: The dog adventurer, which transplants Arkanoid (thus the ‘Arkan’ of the title) to a platformer. Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The great thing about an established genre like a brick-breaker is that you can go off in weird and wacky directions with it, and most people will still recognise its core. It’s like pausing Call of Duty multiplayer and asking a player to juggle four balls while wearing crab hands before they’re allowed to start again. Now make the Breakout game difficult, and lock the rest of the action-adventure game behind success. Imagine the complete and utter lack of speed and control that offers you. Imagine a basic Breakout game, but you control the paddle by moving an FPS-style reticule to the left of the screen to move left, and to the right of the screen to move right. The second is that it’s the worst example of brick-breaking committed to a professional platform. We wanted to include this for two reasons: one is that it follows in the cute tradition of movies like Jurassic Park, Hackers and Swordfish where ‘hacking’ is a visual and exciting game, involving people screaming about worms, trojans and backdoors as they spin around on chairs. A bit of a cheat this one, but the 2021 action adventure game ‘Protocol’ has a brick-breaker sequence, which is used to convey a ‘hack’. ![]()
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