holedown

I’ll admit, I didn’t love this game at first. I had to try it a few times, reluctantly. After beating the first level, I couldn’t put it down. I picked up some techniques like shooting at specific spots on the rounded edge and paying attention to the numbers to think about my strategy. At first I was shooting randomly and crashing often. I beat all the levels and was happily surprised by the black hole level. Brilliant! Got my whole family hooked on this game. I’m excited for future updates and improvements. The simplicity is a major draw, but it could be fun to have power-ups and other types of blocks, like maybe squared corners to make it more challenging or diamond shapes. Anyway, this is a SUPER fun game and I highly recommend it!!!

The play style of Holedown is solid! I love to aim the line at different angles and watch the onslaught of balls Ricochet off of everything, it’s satisfying! What’s not satisfying though is the 3 hours I spent going through the games worlds. They have an endless world however there is no sense to play because there is no variety in the abilities you purchase. Plus the boss battles at the end of each world are just the exact same boss but with a higher number to bring down to defeat it. Ugh! That’s lazy. You guys could’ve made them different shapes, or have them move around or SOMETHING! Rather than the same circle of doom at the end of every level. This is definitely NOT worth $4 you all got greedy, this is a $.99 cent game up and down the board unless you have new worlds and abilities planned for the future. Shame really, because it feels really great to play, oh well.

Really satisfying feel to the gameplay. Could use more upgrades, more levels, more something. Maybe a challenge mode with blocks that have their own characteristics (flipping blocks on/off so the player has to time shots), or with balls that behave differently (arching maybe), or the board acts differently (moves up with time, not moves), or with a time limit. Not sure why I can continue to catch crystals when I’m playing the endless level and have all the upgrades, wish there was something to still put those toward. Really fun, was worth $4 to me, but I’d understand if someone were to say it was too much money for the experience.

This game is the best of all the Ballz-like games I've played. At first I was little concerned about the price for such a game, but I went for it and I am not disappointed. I played so much since downloading it last night that I’ve already finished it and have been focusing on getting better shot records. Very few games grab me like this and I really appreciate it when one does. The only issue I’ve had is the cloud save doesn’t allow me to transfer between devices so I had to play only on my iPad. Thanks for such a great gaming experience.

Starts off strong but after maybe 30 minutes to an hour the fun ends. With the levels being Procedurally Generated I’m really surprised at how few levels there are. At the start you have limited balls and shots but with a few upgrades you get unlimited shots which really kills the challenge. Then you get to a point where the crystals you collect to buy upgrades become pointless because you maxed out everything. I would like to see more block shapes that cause the balls to bounce differently or black holes or gravity spots that pull or push the balls different directions (goes with space theme) adding to the difficulty.