Pleasure Ball Journey Assessment | TheXboxHub

What you’re about to learn doesn’t actually represent a overview. For it to be a overview, we might have needed to play all forty of the sport’s ranges. However we didn’t do this. What’s written under is much less a overview, and extra a Public Service Announcement. 

That’s as a result of Pleasure Ball Journey is, sadly, damaged. It’s not damaged in a wholesale method, blocking you from getting any enjoyment in any respect out of it: it’s damaged within the sense that there’s a single degree that can’t be accomplished. Because the forty ranges which can be packaged listed here are linear, that one uncompletable degree is a dealbreaker. When you hit degree fourteen, that’s it: Pleasure Ball Journey is over.

The extent in query has an invisible block (or seen: we are able to nearly see one thing clipping by means of a wall) which sits, sadly, between the principle character and a platform. Because the block is in a slender hall, you may’t progress. There’s no technique to cheese previous it, and you may’t skip it by selecting a future degree. So, 13 ranges is what you’re getting in your £3.29 (lowered to £1.69 for the launch interval).

It’s a disgrace, as a result of Pleasure Ball Journey confirmed a variety of potential as much as that time. Pleasure Ball Journey is astonishingly related in title and gameplay to final 12 months’s Child Ball Journey, which we’ll assume was achieved in good religion. It makes use of related mechanics to good impact. You’re a bouncing ball, however that bounce is automated. Go away the pad alone on the desk, and Pleasure Ball will bounce away. 

All you are able to do is direct that bounce, utilizing it to navigate the extent and keep away from any spike traps that may be in the way in which. Steps turn into a case of ready for the apex of the soar and jabbing left or proper to maneuver over to the subsequent step. One-time platforms are all about touchdown your soar after which transferring on, lest you fall into spikes under. And springboards are nice when it’s good to attain someplace excessive, however not so nice when spikes are masking the ceiling. 

The 13 ranges all put the mechanic to first rate use. There’s nothing right here that’s notably past Child Ball Journey, or Dadish 3 for that matter, which used an analogous mechanic, however there’s a mild pleasure in utilizing the trajectory of every bounce to greatest full a degree. Gamella Studios have good enjoyable creating gaps which can be simply sufficiently big to bounce throughout, so you must time these arcs to perfection. 

In fact, we didn’t even play the primary half of the sport, so it’s laborious to make a judgment on issue or longevity. Despite the fact that there are just a few testing jumps, there’s nothing right here that may preserve you awake at night time. Certainly that was to return from ranges fifteen onwards. Going by the primary ranges, nevertheless, the entire shebang wasn’t going to final lengthy: we bought to degree fourteen within the area of roughly fifteen minutes. 

Which leads us to the awkward second on the finish of the overview. We felt, in all earnestness, that readers deserved to know that Pleasure Ball Journey is damaged. However it is a overview, and opinions demand a rating. We may slap a quantity on it, however that quantity wouldn’t – couldn’t – be excessive. What occurs if Gamella Studios mounted the blighted Degree 14? Is it truthful {that a} horrible rating stays? Equally, we may merely not apply a rating, which feels protected but additionally stops wanting actually being a overview, and would imply the PSA doesn’t get seen by individuals who would possibly purchase it. 

So, we’re going handy it a rating, and re-review if issues get mounted. These no-achievement, cheapo video games don’t usually get up to date, so we’re not holding our breath, however we are going to do our due diligence and examine in on it, from time to time. If one thing substantial has modified, then again we are going to come to a overview. 

With all that in thoughts, we now have to implore you to not purchase Pleasure Ball Journey. It’s unfinishable, bugged to the purpose of impassibility on Degree 14. What little we performed was good, notably for that low worth, however you may expertise an precise, working model of it by shopping for Child Ball Journey as a substitute. It has the novelty of really being playable.

You should buy Pleasure Ball Journey from the Xbox Retailer