Cricket Through the Ages

This game is great. I loved almost all of it... up to the badminton. I felt that that gameplay just wasn’t as fun. There wasn’t as much humor and I wasn’t really looking for a skill game in this but it’s ok there’s only like one level and it’s a funny storyline. The world war is the only other thing I have to complain about. The AI has way to much power, what with the grenade throwing. Maybe just lower there aim and speed a little? And the fact that if you kill the dude and then his grenade hits you second by like, 0.5 seconds he gets to advance is quite annoying. However, I played through it, and other then those two parts, it’s really fun, even the war one when you get the hang of it. So in other words, just a few touch ups and it’s a 5 star game.

While the mechanics aren’t always totally obvious, the ability to just grind through keeps things going and fun until 1939. At that point, all the joy is sucked out of the game (at least while playing single player). I’ve spent hours on both an iPhone and an Apple TV trying to get past the final round on this level to no avail. The AI can magically throw grenades instantly and almost always as a head shot; it spawns right next to me, allowing it to charge forward when I spawn off screen and have to make up ground. Etc. I feel _very_ weird getting this bent out of shape over such a silly game full of fantastic non sequitur and humor. But it gets in my craw because the enjoyment went from 100 to almost zero nearly instantaneously.

If you look at the reviews there will be a lot of hate. The two reasons for this are 1. People say certain levels are unbeatable but they just need to try harder, and I know this because I personally have beat the game. 2. They say the title is misleading but if you just play far enough you actually get the the cricket. Also someone said it does not save but there are savepoints at certain points in between levels. This game is hard at some points, but still very fun and you just have to push through.

Ignore the haters. The only thing they haven’t considered is that they’re just not good at this game. And that’s okay but don’t blame the game, yo. I’ve played through every game style multiple times over and regularly crack open Ashes World Cup when I’ve got time to kill, or a quick run through of Quantum Cricket if I feel like laughing and not really giving a crap. It’s fun, it’s dumb in the best way, the dry English humor and irony slays me, it’s earned a permanent place on my phone. Nicely done guys, hoping for even more game options in the future.

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I admit that I didn’t time myself for the amount of time I spent playing this game before I deleted it but it wasn’t long. Since I haven’t played every game on Apple Arcade, I can’t be sure this is the worst game on Apple Arcade, but I can’t really imagine how any otherwise professionally produced game could be worse. And I played the Atari E.T. video game as a kid, so I do know bad video games. Unnecessarily difficult gameplay (it makes Flappy Bird seem easy), generally unwinnable fights (against the computer anyway), at times you can’t tell which side your character is on (not that it matters), and downright offensive themes (who thought trying to launch the space shuttle without it blowing up was a good idea?) make this game a complete waste of data, memory, and storage.