Balls Breakout 2020 4+

Update to my original review. I’ve gotten used to the changes and I’m addicted again. Bumped up my rating.
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I enjoy the game, but wish I hadn’t updated to the latest version. The new design looks like crap. The colors are garish, they’ve added a pointless outline inside the blocks, and the balls have become soccer balls, which look bizarre on the black background because the black parts of the ball visually drop out, leaving a weird shape. Also, the block colors used to range from red for ones that need many hits to clear to through orange and yellow to green for blocks that needed few hits to clear. Totally made sense. Now, the colors seem to be haphazard, almost random and devoid of meaning. How can you do such a crappy job of redesigning? I would have given 5 stars if not for the awful redesign.

First of all, the game does not like you to see the satisfying shots that it advertises on other apps, so it will throw an add at you that will guarantee that you miss it if you even think you got a shot like it. Second of all, those shots in the ads are only possible in the daily challenge, which is how you can get infinite coins. Daily challenge rewards 40 coins, ALWAYS! Even when you pay 20 coins to do it again you will get 40 coins when you clear it. This means that if you can technically die once per try on a daily challenge and break even. I did this to get a 700 coin skin within an hour without paying a single cent. And if you are fine with ads, you can double your ball amount at the beginning of each challenge to almost guarantee that you will win every challenge. However, if you have no WiFi, like when the phone is in airplane mode, ads cannot be played. THIS INCLUDES ALL ADS THAT GIVE YOU ANY KIND OF REWARD. Gold chests, 10 coin ads, and daily double challenge won’t work in airplane mode. The app otherwise works in airplane mode though, so props to the creators for that. I approve of optional ads, but sudden ads just aren’t nice.

Game is pretty fun. The ads are annoying at first (the “precious” treasure box), but they’re quite easy to ignore later on. There are really nice features such as continuing after losing, redos, and the X3 speed, but honestly after like 3000+ I think the game gets pretty unplayable. The double bricks feature also makes the game pretty unique, but they get real annoying when there’s more than 3 double bricks in one line. Each line can have up to 7 bricks, so having more than 3-4 doubles in one line should be illegal. Unless you land a crazy shot, you can’t break them in one round. I think the game could use a X5 speed or a X2 ball-value so each round goes faster.