Survival mode impossible

[Yuichiro-Akuhei]

So I decided to start this game because I was curious why survival mode was so hard.

Before starting I thought this will not be that hard right, cmon a brick breaker game? 

 

Starting the first level, 112 bricks!!! what, the first level okay, small overkill right away, but it's doable.

While playing I notice the controls are really bad, and the paddle is really slow. 

 

Now a small game mechanic, the more your ball keeps shooting/bouching around the faster it goes up to 10x speed! starting at 1speed.

While the ball is at 10x speed it's really easy to lose it, It just needs to hit a brick in a bad corner and your not able to reach it anymore, with other words 1 life lost out of 5. For every level, you get 5 lives.

 

after a couple levels, it just got worse, the bricks can be so low on the screen, at 10x speed, it's just not doable anymore with the bad controls and the slow paddle, you're not being able to keep it up. of course, we have 5 lives so we have some room for mistakes.

 

After a couple more levels we get abilities, great always useful (multi-balls, fireball, guns, extra life, bigger paddle, the ball goes slower) and now a funny one, the ball goes faster!  

Great just what I wanted a power-up that can screw me over.

 

And again after a couple more levels more surprises, negative upgrade (smaller paddle, reverse controls, multiple fake paddles, or you lose all your abilities you collected so far in the level. Now the fun thing about these blocks, if you hit one, it will shoot AT you the negative power up, of course, you can dodge it. but guess what, when it hits the bottom of the screen after you dodged it, it comes back  up again for another round

 

Now the reverse controls, when a bad upgrade comes down you can not see what it is, so getting the reversed control can screw you up so easily, of course, you can adjust to it, but at 10x speed you will just not get it, now when the controls turn back to normal, try to adjust to that lmao, you will just miss the ball, and like I said some levens the brick are so low on screen its not doable to react to it when the ball comes up and down at 10x speed.

 

After level 20, bricks will start moving around or rotating. Now, these bricks can change the direction of your ball so stupid or fast and because you're at 10x speed, you have no time to react because of the slow paddle.

 

Now I decided to play survival mode, to check it out. why is this so HARD? Well, its the base game level 1 t/m level 100 with only 5 LIFES total… fk my life.

With everything, I just said above here List with every problem this game has!

 

1 bad controls and a slow paddle.

2 the ball at 10x speed at some levels is not doable.

3 to many negative upgrades and they shoot at you.

4 to many bricks in each level.

5 destroying too many bricks at ones, you could lose your ball on screen because of all the chaos.

6 blocks are moving to much around.

 

At the moment I'm at level 38 and it has 16 negative upgrades and 6 good upgrades tbh (the upgrades are terrible) and I already find it impossible to do this without losing a life, so thinking about to do the whole game with 5 lives, and getting a couple more lives from a good upgrade (they are always the same) nobody I mean nobody will get this trophy...

I could see somebody do the 30 levels survival,  but not 100....

 

p.s sorry for my bad English 

 

(I try to upload a video later to show how BS this is xD)

 

for anybody who is trying good luck ??

 

 

Edited February 24, 2018 by Yuichiro-Akuhei

[HOGIE838EIRE]

I just bought this game in the sale, it was only €2.50 so not really bothered. I then looked at the trophy list and seen nobody has gotten a trophy for more than 10 levels survival!

 

I am in no way skilled at games but I will really really try and get hard trophies. If nobody has gotten them I won’t stand a chance lol so I will give this a miss. I do wonder if the developers were able to complete survival mode or they just added it without any thought ?

[Asmund]

Yep, gonna have to skip it, No body can crack the 30 levels let alone 100 lol.

[JFthebestJan]

nobody's perfect, he really is

because some maniac has gotten all the trophies! this is insane, it really is!

[MidnightMoth]

That sounds horrible. Lucky for me I don't like brick breaker games but I am surprised to hear about how awful the design was.

[giggs_amos]

The guy who got all trophies should be counted as a new species. (Hello stranger, welcome to Earth)

 

I've never seen such poorly designed game, it destroys the nostalgia completely.

 

For a game that puts emphasis heavily on precision; it's element of precision is based around bending you over, and puttin' a ton of bricks into your naive backbone for thinking this could be fun. 

 

Usually when you have traps in other games, you get a chance to evade, even if it's based on surprise mechanics, you still get a micro window to react. In this one they thought, put ten unavoidable traps in a row; and to spice it up, don't show the player how long the illness is gonna last, let him guess and count on his transcendental intuition. You know what, put a comeback mechanic also... hmmm.. what else lies in the depths of my corrupted mind. Reversing pads and bricks two rows in front of their noses with speed limit 10x. Seems too easy, please add flying colors for decreasing the visibility. 

 

All in all, the only gripe i have with it, too many lives for hundered levels in one sitting. Can't wait for Brick Breaker 2, you actually have to break bricks with your head and that's the easy part. 

[rednaxnxam]

I absolutely love Brick Breaker games, but this game sucks!!!  

Edited March 4, 2022 by rednaxnxam