PrecisionThe Sun Is Trying To Tell You Something | Submitted by the99th on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 00:23. |
Precision is Cactus's latest deconstruction and then resurrection of a popular game mechanic: precision jumps. The way this guy works, he sheds entire Alpha's like dandruff while sleeping, then finds them years later, decides to polish them up a bit -- so something he started in '06 is now released two years later. The result is a charmingly frustrating suite of levels that allow you to truly experience precision jumping in a way you never before imagined. There's more precision.
PopCap has probably already made ten times what it cost them to build Peggle. This means that, while they wouldn't turn it down, they don't need your money. Considering however that Peggle is pretty much universally liked (though notably not 'beloved'), you can bet that it's worth checking out.
Peggle has more agency than Pachinko, but less than Pinball. Players shoot a ball from the top of the screen, bouncing it off pegs and blocks, trying to collide it with all the orange pegs before they run out of shots. However, pegs and blocks disappear whenever they are hit by the player's ball, meaning that options get fewer and choices get harder as the game wears on. Making everything harder is fact that no human being could possibly predict how a ball is going to bounce past the first two ricochets, which makes whether you win or lose pretty random in the grand scheme of things.
