EDIT-12/8/2018 MOUSE CONTROL!!! Great addition, and adds much to play, game length, and ball control (or seems to for me. Especially improved by mouse control is ball aiming! Section on lack of mouse control removed.) Also, pressing ESC out of habit (to pause) no longer exits the game. (Perhaps the best sign of a good game is attentive developers. If so HA2 will do very well. Thank you!) As a player who has an almost obsessive interest in the PONG, Breakout, Arkanoid genre of arcade game, Halloween Arkanoid 2 (HA2) was pretty much a certainty (at least at this very reasonable price.) While I’ve been playing such games since my Odyssey console in 1973 included a PONG game, I won’t begin to say I’m proficient. But I can speak from more than four decades of intermittent experience. Please keep in mind that what may be its biggest plus may also be its biggest (review) negative: 150 levels. I can’t begin to comment on more than the first handful of levels within the first few hour...

Simple but satisfying breakout game. You can switch between using mouse or keyboard to control the paddle via the Settings screen. I made it to Stage 4 on my first try at medium difficulty. There's 15 screens per stage and the final screen of the stage is a boss fight. Power-ups are the standard in break out type games - large ball, laser paddle, large paddle, multi-ball, bumper guard, exploding ball, Pretty much standard brick types too; standard, hardened, invulnerable, invisible, switches, moving bricks, ect. All in all, it scratches the itch for a new variation of the standard break out game. And at the price, definitely worth it.

Brick Breaker Halloween (aka Halloween Arkanoid 2... oops... the developer used the licensed trademark from Taito without permission) is a GameMaker Studio template copy + paste, the developer took a bare bones brickbreaker game template from Yoyogames, slapped some asset flipped Halloween art on it, and is now trying to get paid for it. Unsurprisingly this shovelware has zero redeeming interest for gamers. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in lo...

Well I'll be damned this game is great. I'm glad I read reviews because it looks like some Arkanoid spinoffs suhk. I can't help but remember the email I got about being refunded for my recent Steam controller purchases, because I used the gyro with the last one I have & it felt great. No mouse, no analog, it goes where I'm pointing, & the fine movement is there since I can use my whole arms instead of just my wrist like a mouse. This is now a review of the Steam controller. RIP.

Good mind numbing fun

PROS minimal mouse lag ((on my 2011 laptop) there are't many games around satisfying this criteria. if any, don't wait to tell me) many bonus balls that lets skill matter. fun new mechanics including brick animations and whole-board invisibility. the item system is mostly in Arkanoid style, i.e. no bad items. but there are some bad "objects" (if touched by the paddle) that acts like bricks which could be hit and destroyed by the ball (and some take effect when hit by the ball). even the most classic "speed-up" effect is implemented in this way (through hitting the colorful brick/flying object dispensed by the boss). this is really unique and fun, though it appears only at late stages, and before that i thought the ball will have constant speed forever. many speed-up will stack up and give you some hyper speed (in a short time though) most effects are time-limited, positive or negative, except for triple-ball (actually, 2 bonus balls) and falling protection (until a ball breaks it). th...

good game, music is pleasant , has halloween expected sound effects ie witches cackle. its not scary.

its ok for a game to listen to music and chill

For what it is and how chep it is, so is it a good game. I do only play it (very) casually, as of the time of writing have only played 0,8h.

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