A load of ballsĪnd that's because it plays like a physics demo rather than a game.īlosics allows you to ping balls around a variety of 2D landscapes at will, and it'll hold your interest for a while in the same way that anything interactive will, but the game never asserts a coherent structure. Even the addition of new balls – heavy ones, multiple ones – fails to lift Blosics above the mundane. The levels get increasingly complex, but they never get any more satisfying. In others, you're required to bounce the balls off boards, playing the angles to your advantage. Firing balls at the stack causes the blocks to bunch together rather than collapse, leaving you to fire balls tediously against the compacted structure ad nauseum. In one early stage the blocks are stacked up against a wal.

In that respect, Blosics is fundamentally different from - and less exciting than - its rivals. Yes, your rating suffers the longer you take – and, indeed, not all of the blocks need to be smashed in the first place – but on the whole it's only a matter of time before you move on to the next stage.

Unlike other physics puzzlers, where your ammunition is limited and there's no guarantee you'll ever floor the structure in question, success in Blosics essentially calls for perseverance. With so little else to go on, everything falls back on the gameplay, and here Blosics is annoyingly hit and miss. Indeed, the only part of Blosics that leaves an impression of any kind is the inane mumbling of the blocks themselves. The game's art style is no doubt intentionally minimalist, but it's frustratingly lacking in character as a result. The levels themselves are typically sparse. The majority of the early levels in the opening world serve as target practice, with most relying on your ability to take out those at the foundation in order to cause the rest to come crashing down from above. Instead, Blosics actually feels like a step backwards.Įither using your finger to either catapult or flick ball, the idea is to smash a certain proportion of the objects on the screen – initially squares – using as few balls as possible. There's no problem with that in theory, of course, as long as the game in question eventually brings something of its own to the table. The very concept behind Blosics – flinging a ball at a stack of shapes in order to smash them to the ground – has immediate similarities to Angry Birds.

It says a lot about a game if all that playing it does is make you wish you were playing another one.īlosics launches on the App Store almost two years to the day Angry Birds made its first splash, and it's easy to imagine that those working on this particularly derivative physics-based puzzler have done little else but play Rovio's original monster in the intervening months.

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