Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy

I was just enjoying the game, but after I got the last marble (there are 5 in game: Attack, Shield, Power Boost, Heal and Reflection) the game got so hard and frustrating, almost impossible to play. AI has a huge advantage, always gets the right marbles, and knows what is off screen. You'll find yourself trying to survive deadly combos, and repeating the same stage over and over and over again. The game gives you points to distribute on your stats to increase the power of your marbles, but its also messed up, because every enemy needs a different strategy, and I had to keep reseting my points and distribute them in different ways for each stage. For a casual game, it's too hard and boring. I just want to shoot marbles, and not to calculate things like damage reflection, or defense points, whatever.

Very fun marble game, something like Zuma - duel edition, I think the main auditory for this game is kids because of the story, but the game is still fun for all ages :) : +Very nice and colorful drawings (the only problem is that gurl looks like a 30 years old sometimes :| ) +Great soundwork - both OST and effects are well done +Gameplay - most of the time you are dueling various monsters, mechanics exactly Zuma alike, sometimes you even face easy puzzles, and you also leveling your stats, like damage, HP etc. +Pretty fun and yet easy, I've beaten like 35 levels in one sitting. yet there are like 70 more to go ^ I need to update this one, once you get to the yellow orbs levels (lvl 50+) the game drastically increases the difficulty, and becomes hard AF. Maybe I'm a crybaby but yeh. +steam achievements - buggy for me, there are a lot of achievements to unlock, and they unlock in-game just alright, at the same time, in steam they unlock only after you close the game, all together +stea...

Dumbest fu%$ing game in the world. This game will piss you off and you will want to smash your monitor over your head. It's nowhere near as fun as Zuma.

Pure RNG mixed with nearly unbeatable AI with all seeing eyes that can see miles off screen. Game constantly gives the opponents the better start causing you to become frustrated and restart the battle. All in a vain effort to try to have a good lead in an attempt to beat them, in most cases you'll still lose. This is not a strategic game at all and relies solely on luck.

Zuma versus mode is a good idea (I wonder why Popcap never released one), but in Marble Duel the execution of the idea is terrible. The AI is VERY unfair, meaning you must rely on the luck of the starting draw of marbles to defeat the opponent. Which in turn means restarting over and over again. After defeating an enemy, you are never certain if it was just luck or if the umpteenth respec was the key. The game also has a few bugs, after playing for an hour or so it starts to slow down its framerate until it eventually freezes when you try to quit. Finally, some people on the game hub wanted local 2p versus, but I wouldn't want to submit a friend to this pain.

I reach level 50 of the game try to pass it for 25 times but the computer is always had better collection of marbles which put it in advance, actually the marbles didn't changed a lot after replaying the round. Note I collected all the diamonds from the previous levels, did the skills upgrades, but didn't get the chance to advance the level or any tips to do that. I recommend updating the algorithm to random the marbles collection which may create a chance to advance the level.

Great causal marble game.......until you reach level 50 and super epic legendary difficulty is enabled. I uninstalled this game and will play something fun instead. 2021 edit....F*ck this game...still on lvl 50.

A pretty decent clone of Luxor but with some twists and a lot of negative highlights. The game is fairly easy at start, you learn the basics in about 15min, and after that .. well.. you get pissed off more and more. Thing is.. i read quite a few reviews before purchasing the game and now (i'm at lvl 51) i just wonder if any of this goofballs, that really praise the game, actually finished it at some point. A game of this sort is supposed to be mastered after a while, even faster if you have previous experience with games of this kind. I doubt i'll get more levels done from this point since the AI is cheating like hell and it was pure chance i got few of the others levels done as well. The bonus levels i've discovered so far and that probably were supposed to help with the rewards they give are impossible to finish (no matter how you distribute the points). All in all .. a bad game with the potential to be good. It needs to be updated and it has to be re-balanced. If you get it at 70...

[u]Recommendation[/u]: Good for a couple of hours of Zuma-style play, but ultimately frustrating. [u]Review[/u]: Marble Duel could be called the "Zuma RPG," because it adds character stats, leveling, and story to the traditional Zuma gameplay of shooting marbles into a moving line to match sets and make marbles disappear. The different colors of marbles each correspond to a different kind of action that your character performs, as each level represents a battle between two opponents. So if you match red marbles, that performs an attack on the opponent, whereas a green match will heal your character. Ultimately, you have to deal enough damage to the opponent to reduce its health to zero, which completes that level. These are all fun additions, and it gives the potential satisfaction of "completing" the game (as opposed to Zuma, which continues endlessly). [u]Critique[/u]: This starts out really fun, because the RPG elements really add something special to most games. But the implement...

It gets very annoying later, almost to the point where it feels the AI cheats and gives them exactly what they need to win. Avoid. Update, I played a bit more since I own it anyway. Level 46 is complete and utter BS. You'd think they were selling micro-transactions.