The thought behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that each Friday afternoon we publish the one recreation that got here out this week that we expect is price giving a particular nod to. Now, earlier than anybody goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t essentially imply our Sport of the Week decide is the very best scoring recreation in a evaluation, the sport with the most effective graphics, or actually every other quantifiable “finest” factor. As a substitute, it’s extra simply us selecting out the one recreation out of the week’s releases that we expect is probably the most noteworthy, stunning, attention-grabbing, or actually every other exhausting to explain high quality that makes it price having in the event you had been simply going to select up one.
These picks is likely to be controversial, and that’s OK. If you happen to disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s attempt to use the feedback of those articles to have conversations about what recreation is your recreation of the week and why.
With out additional ado…
QuestBall
I’m an enormous fan of slapping RPG mechanics onto an in any other case fairly simple recreation mechanic to create one thing a bit of extra substantial, and that’s simply what Left is Proper studio aka solo developer Stuart Wallace has finished with the idea of tennis in his new recreation QuestBall (Free). Or as an alternative of tennis you can say Pong, or desk tennis, or volleyball, and even badminton I suppose. Principally any recreation the place two gamers are batting an object forwards and backwards with the purpose of getting stated object previous your opponent to attain some extent. Left is Proper has taken that attempted and true idea and utilized a skinny veneer of fantasy RPG on prime, creating an extremely entertaining expertise.
Enjoying QuestBall couldn’t be any easier. You maintain down on the display screen to load up your swing, and launch when the ball is close to to hit it in the direction of your opponent. Attempt to bait your opponent to get them out of place and use angled photographs with a purpose to blast on previous them and earn some extent. I imply, everyone knows how this goes by now, proper? The true enjoyable in QuestBall is within the recreation’s eight playable characters who every have their very own distinctive set of attributes and play fairly otherwise from each other. These characters are primarily based on precise historic and legendary figures, like Robin Hood, William Wallace, or the Scottish goddess Beira.
Every character additionally has their very own particular assault that you would be able to unleash when you’ve crammed up a magic meter which will increase with profitable photographs and rallies and reduces when your opponent scores on you. These particular assaults relate to a different distinctive mechanics within the recreation: Your life meter. Sure, along with not letting your opponent outscore you, you’re additionally making an attempt to forestall them from killing you. Together with these particular assaults with the ability to knock some life away, every character’s distinctive court docket additionally options harmful parts that you simply’ll have to dodge or in any other case pay attention to throughout the course of every recreation, like arrows randomly firing from the forest in Robin Hood’s stage or powder kegs that may blow up and harm you in the event you don’t stamp out their fuse on Man Fawkes’s stage.
Lastly, there are particular means icons that may randomly present up on the court docket that you would be able to accumulate and inventory as much as three after which use them if you deem match. These may be issues like tremendous energy or velocity, turning your character into a large, slowing down the velocity of your opponent, and extra. The completely different characters, particular assaults, and these skills all mix collectively to create a recreation that’s like Pong on steroids. However tremendous charming fantasy-based steroids. The AI isn’t any pushover both so QuestBall positively places up a satisfying problem, and pushes that even additional with an unlockable Arduous Mode.
QuestBall is free to obtain and also you’ll unlock characters through the use of gems that you simply earn via taking part in. Or, you may say nuts to that and simply unlock the entire recreation immediately for a $1.99 IAP. The developer could be very lively in our forums if you wish to drop by to go away your ideas or suggestions, so free of charge there’s no cause you shouldn’t be trying out this tremendous enjoyable tackle a basic recreation.
