Aramation Games

Casual gaming market shows no signs of slowing down, and the biggest drug pusher is PopCap games. Their new release Peggle is an odd mix of Japanese-style pachinko and pinball. You launch metal balls from the top in order to clear the pegs in the playing field. In all, it is a very simplistic experience since once you launch the ball, you let gravity take effect and hope your metal ball goes where pegs are still around. Of course in order to master this game, you need to think about ricochet, shot angles and special powers. Special powers range everything from a fireball that’ll go through the pegs without bouncing off, to simple flippers at the both sides of the field which you can use to attempt to clear more pegs.

Simple game mechanics are packaged with very… trippy graphics. The game is dominated by flowers, unicorns (yes, unicorns), dragons, golden lotuses and even talking frogs.

Once you can get over the sugary graphics, you’ll find that this is a great game since it will suck all your free time. Oftentimes, whether you succeed in a level depends on pure luck as the bouncing ball’s trajectory cannot be reasonably anticipated at the beginning. Which would make the experience very frustrating in other games… except Peggle’s charm dictates you to try again and push your luck further to clear all orange pegs. Once you’re done with the main quest mode (yes, there is a quest mode), you can complete challenges where you’re given an increasingly tough objectives.

[Click here to play the online game for free or buy full version]

Score: 80%

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