Chalk Ball is the redeeming app that we needed to get for free today! Go get this game now, then come back to read about what I thought of it.
One of my favorite "software accessories" is Open Feint for its achievements, online leaderboards, and friends lists. It is also great because games that support it are generally better than games that don't. If you play a game that is Feint-enabled you will also have access to the Open Feint app from within each game, allowing you to view everything I've mentioned above as well as a list of all the Feint-enabled games you own across iOS and Android. Damn thats good. Did you catch that its cross platform?
So, back to Chalk Ball. This game is Feint-enabled, with achievements and only leaderboards. No online multiplayer, though something like that would be really cool. Maybe an Ikaruga type gameplay element could be used where one player is red and the other player is blue and sharing the same screen is the distracting element that makes it fun. And there is nother "more better" than point stealing!
This game has only two a modes of play, Survival and Adventures. In Survival you simply play until you die. And by die I mean your chalk ball hits the bottom and doesn't bounce back. Use this mode to get all the achievements and reach for that global high score. Adventures Mode is where you get to play some choreographed puzzles and even play in non-chalk schemes; notepad and 8-bit.
I played it for about 30 minutes after downloading and unlocked about 60% of all the achievements. Not at all hard. If you've read this far into my review and still haven't downloaded it then you should trade you're Android in for a Nokia Windows Phone 7 POS.
Here's hoping they don't get sued for the "Jedi..." achievements.
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