Marble It Up! Extremely can hint its lineage all the way in which to the traditional Marble Blast titles from the flip of the century. A sequel to Marble It Up!, this new entry follows the outdated adage of “greater is best” by increasing the quantity of content material on supply.
Marble video games usually supply a reasonably commonplace mixture of momentum and platforming-based puzzles, and that is no exception. The overwhelming majority of the sport’s 100+ ranges adhere to this. The gameplay is enjoyable and compelling. That is notably true of the momentum-centric puzzles, as the sport does an distinctive job at conveying pace together with your marble. On most of the bigger straightaways, you may end up touring so quick that you’re going to begin to get anxious. One false transfer and you can miss your mark by kilometres. The platforming ranges do not convey this uncooked mayhem in the identical vogue, however they do home nearly all of the sport’s problem, particularly in later chapters.
There’s one thing exhilarating about enjoying out rounds of Takeshi’s Citadel however as a marble. The beneficiant checkpoints imply you will not lose a lot progress both, assuming you are purely occupied with finishing every stage versus attaining the highest medals, although be cautious of bizarre collision points on reset — hopefully that is mounted. Attaining medals within the sport is a bit uneven, as some ranges appear completely affordable with their time necessities, however each every so often, the constraints are both beneficiant or nigh not possible. There’s not likely any consistency to this, however finally, it is a fairly minor drawback.
Not content material to only have a big pool of ranges to dip into, the title additionally includes a multiplayer mode comprising 10 maps and a handful of modes. One of the best of those is a king-of-the-hill-esque Sumo mode. Throughout all of those modes, the sport reveals off its vibrant color palette and artistic stage design, with sprawling environments on show within the ethereal void these marble video games appear to exist in. That is true of your marble as nicely, absolutely customisable with totally different finishes, hats, and contrails.
Usually, the sport is packed to absolutely the brim with content material, and it is a blast to play, even when it by no means sees match to reinvent the wheel.
