The game has just a couple of low- rent techno tracks, a few badly-mixed sounds, basic animated backgrounds, and bland particle hit effects that don’t confer any real sense of feedback or fun. The visuals and sound aren’t much better. Official Brick Breaker promo screenshot, That’s the core thing a Breakout clone needs to get right, and it’s completely wrong here. Similar randomness plagues brick hits, resulting in a bouncing ball that’s completely unpredictable and not fun to interact with. The ball careens off the paddle at random angles, seemingly un-impacted by the speed of your movement or its incoming direction. The paddle is slippery, fidgety, and imprecise to move left and right whether you use the analog stick or the d-pad. There’s no sense of feel, physics, or momentum to anything. That’s a fun throwback, but also far from the extreme engagement that most simple arcade-style games now use to keep you playing. As you beat each level, a new one unlocks, and sometimes there’s a trophy to mark your progress, but the game has no other progression mechanics or persistence of any kind. There’s also a local multiplayer mode, but good luck getting anyone to play this with you. When you load the game up, you’re presented with a basic menu, and a list of 100 levels to play, up from the original PS Mini version’s 50. Those small beginnings are prominently on display and the game never rises above them.
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