One More Brick

My biggest gripe is how the game buries you in blocks eventually no matter how well you're doing, to the point that unless you're a geometry expert with a Ph.D. and can calculate every single angle, you cannot go further. The problem with this mainly is that sometimes you clear a block and the next level stops up that hole. Then you get almost entire rows of blocks in successive levels after that which make extra balls inaccessible and also makes it so you can only clear one or two blocks. Before you know it you have thick columns and rows of blocks you can't ever hope to clear. When you get an entire row of blocks it's pretty much impossible to clear more than one block from that row, and once you clear the row there are 4-5 rows of blocks above you from which you can only clear one block and it just descends on you until you die and you see the screen just filled with blocks. Other than this it's a great time-killer. I complain about getting buried in blocks but I'm also proud of the fact I managed to make it to level 238. Another plus is that though there are ads, you get buried in blocks rather than ads, and I'd rather have the challenge of clearing blocks than have to watch an ad constantly advertising a game I don't care a lick about.

I have been playing this constantly. Unlike other games with in-app purchases, it's not restricted by having to pay for more lives. You can purchase the removal of forced ads, which may or may not bother people, but if I enjoy playing a game, I don't mind throwing $3-5 at a company for giving me one of my favorite time wasting games ever. My one complaint is the lack of instructions. I've figured most things out, but that took longer than it should have. It's not as self-explanatory as you may think, especially if it all of the different power-ups and abilities.

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This game was not designed to be a fun way to try and do better the next time, but so that you’re forced to watch ads. I get that they need to make revenue, but the game doesn’t make me want to stick around to keep watching ads. First, the shooter only allows you to go so far to one side or the other, stopping you from escaping a situation if you have a block that gets too low. If you lose, and watch a video to resume, only half the time does it actually take you back to your last checkpoint, the other half, you watch the video and then start over. That’s cheap and cruel. Lastly, if you build a game that requires you to be dead accurate to succeed, make your game accurate. I hate the line that shows where your ball will end up, only to have it hit a corner to the side of where that line shows. I understand that that is the physics of it, but I think that there’s a difference between a game being hard because it’s hard, and a game being hard because it doesn’t let you play with the tools it’s giving you. This had potential to beat all other games like this, but until they fix a handful of things, I won’t be playing it any longer.

For the most part I love playing this game since you don’t run out of lives and have to wait or purchase to continue playing. However... I understand that if I don’t want ads I can pay but I’m not quite there yet. So, I’ll watch the ads, but too many times the ad gets “stuck”. There is no X to get out and nothing plays, it’s just a black screen and the only way to get past it is to kill the game and reload but you lose your place and have to start over. Also, what happened to the bouncer that appeared after the balls were no longer hitting blocks? Now it doesn’t appear so the balls can just go from wall to wall in the exact same place hitting nothing FOREVER!!! Trust me, I tried it. Put my phone down and came back and it was still going in the exact same place. You have no option but to call them all back and lose the benefit of them hitting anything on their way.

I like this game a lot! Its physics are a lot more consistent than a lot of other similar games I’ve played. The power-ups are fun and the challenges are really interesting. I like that you can hold position to lock down your shot and get things pixel-perfect. The game never feels cheap to me, I always feel like I deserved to lose when I get overwhelmed. I would give it 5 stars if it didn’t suffer from an obnoxious softlocking issue that forces you to reset the app, especially when doing challenges. It looks like the advertisements are the cause, because once I paid for no forced ads, the problem stopped happening. I’m on an iPhone 8+ running latest iOS 12.3 as of the time of this writing, and am running the app version that was released yesterday.