Brutal Hockey 9+

This game is a cool concept, fun for an hour. Then you realize there only one way to score with a goalie in net and the game quickly gets stale when its the same pass shoot every game. The power ups make things a little more interesting, but its not enough and usually leads to you losing the tournament because a bomb blew up both your players etc.

It’s a great game aside from a few issues. Your own goalie might as well not be there as they are useless. The hardcore league is a stupid mess. The little insta kill squares only work on the player and same with the slow down squares which will continue after you’ve passed them. This ruins the experience and creates situations wherein the AI will dominate you because you keep dying on those stupid squares and your goalie lets them score. The death squares just need to go and same with the KO puck perk. It’s a nice idea and I still win when the enemy has it but it just goes against everything the game teaches you up to that point. If an opponent has the puck I would go in front of them and block it but with the KO puck it makes that a terrible idea. Maybe that was the devs goal but I don’t like that at all. These factors together make hardcore league a overwhelmingly sucky experience that I’m only doing to finish out the game.

I’m not sure why this is happening. I downloaded the game in 2020 (don’t remember playing it) and just redownloaded it today. Maybe it’s set to my old phone through Game Center? Turned off Game Center and it’s still happening.

Load in screen looks fine, but when the game shows up, everything is way off center, buttons don’t work properly and in the tutorial, I can’t see the other teams net to score. I can’t click an options button to fix it, I tried deleting and redownloading before and after turning off Game Center.

It says it’s compatible with my phone and doesn’t need an update or anything. Just trying to play something similar to Slapshot Rebound since I don’t have a windows pc. It