Puzzle Ball

Sadly, really unfinished. I regret buying it now. If you're thinking about buying it just because you played Balance; please don't do it. You'll only end up being disappointed :(

--OVERVIEW-- I just got this game on release day, and I must, say, it's surprising! Puzzle Ball is, in essence, a spiritual successor to marble-based games like Marble Blast Gold, Ballance and Marble Madness. Being a lover of Marble Blast Gold, I thought that this couldn't hurt and gave it a try. After playing with a few of the scenario levels and checking out the level editor, I must say that this game is amazingly fun for 3 dollars. This game is not as much of a skill platformer as others in its genre, but is more of a puzzle, like the name implies. Figuring out the order in which to accomplish challenges for a high score is important, as some points can be permanently missed if you don't do them at the right times. However, there is never so much chalenge that you will get angry at the game, as the game does live up to its "casual" tag This, the beautiful graphics, and the relaxing music combine to create a surprisingly fun experience, as watching each levels' mechanisms come to lif...

This is a cool game the camera can seem really wonky at first but you get used to it. The editor mode seems solid a little dissapointed to see a limit on how many tiles can be placed but I can see why this had to be put in. Its worth what they are asking but dont expect fancy menus and the such its simple but fun. Pros- -Has a level editor -Has split screen -Really cheap -Is a good little marble game Cons- -Only a few levels already playable and unless loads of peple grab this the level picker will probably end up with loads of hemp maps. -Feels a tad unfinished -No controller support (I know xpadder is an option but for a game like this it should just be standard in this day and age) -Tile limit in editor seems a little low would have liked to make some mad maze maps for the splitscreen mode. 7/10

I played this game when it was named Balance, and it was so cool and beautiful. The beautiful environment and the relaxing graphics were amazing so i bought this game hoping for a same experience. It was disappointing. This game is something else. Critical bugs and much, much heavier than balance, even the physics of balance were better.

Now has controller support, This game is worth buying. very cool nice looking game.

The game is OK, but it is not multiplayer except split-screen. It says it got coop, multiplayer and cross-platform multiplayer. Thats a lie.

Half of the text in the game isn't even english!

First review, go easy... To the nay-sayers here I'd advise remembering two things: 1) The game costs just £1.99 and 2) Ballance never had a level editor! In all seriousness the levels in Puzzle Ball do seems a touch easy, or their in-game level-ratings are incorrect. The sometimes Russian text is a small bug that shouldn't take too much to fix. I'd like to have access to all the levels shown in the preview video, there are definately some missing from this first release. Graphically the game is fairly good, I am glad to find others who like this genre enough to create a game and add a level editor.. I have to say thank you for that. Now, there says there is a Multiplayer option, but I cannot seem to find much information about it, or access it in game, any Ideas? - Also this would be perfect for sharing user-created maps surely? Anyway, for £1.99 - If you enjoyed Ballance and fancy something simerlar.. Buy Puzzle Ball.

This game is pretty bad, but for $2 it's hard to argue with. I don't know how many people these days have played or even heard of Ballance, and I have no idea how many other games are similar to Ballance or what Ballance got its ideas from, but Puzzle Ball feels like a worse made version of some of those other marble puzzle games. Either way Ballance is rather old, and doesn't have a level editor. The puzzles in Puzzle Ball are pretty fun though extremely easy, but with the level editor the possibilities are endless but since I'm not a creative type I doubt I'll see much use out of it. What makes the game bad? The music is terrible, a mouse cursor always flashes in the middle of the screen, the menus overlap, there's no 'next level' option when you beat a level, you can't actually close menus in 2-player mode without exiting the stage or restarting the level, deaths are rather meaningless since there's no lives or penalty that I can see, and only about half of the vital text is in En...

Good concept. Poor executuion. Reminds me of a game I played as a kid - Balance. Although I like this type of game, the gameplay it's really no big deal. The "puzzles" are easy, the game has issues with the graphics, one second I'm running it at 90fps, the other it drops down to 10fps ?!? Might be a problem with my pc, but I play most of the games on atleast 30fps with no issues.There's nothing that a good patch would probably fix but there's no support for the game. If you wanna try a good game with a good challenge, just find Balance and play that instead.