TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Suika Game’ – TouchArcade Leave a comment
Nicely it is a bizarre one for a few totally different causes. First, Suika Recreation isn’t precisely new. It launched on the Nintendo Change in Japan manner again in 2021, however some outstanding recreation streamers found it final 12 months and precipitated it to go viral in that nation, and it pretty rapidly discovered its approach to the North American eShop. A cell model appeared like a no brainer given the gameplay, and this previous January an official iOS model launched in Japan. Quietly at first of this month that iOS model was up to date with English language help and pushed out to extra international locations, but it surely wasn’t till this previous week that we had been made conscious of this. I suppose we’re not precisely on the leading edge, are we?
In addition to not technically being a “new” launch Suika Recreation can be sort of an odd choose for a Recreation of the Week as a result of it was solely final month that we selected Galaxy Combine as our Recreation of the Week, a recreation that was brazenly and proudly impressed by Suika Recreation and did its darndest to place its personal distinctive twists on the “merging giant spherical-shaped objects” system. Certainly, Galaxy Combine is great, and does have a handful of cool options that aren’t current in Suika Recreation correct. Nevertheless, as somebody who didn’t play the unique on Change or in its considerably janky web-based kind, this week has been my first expertise with the real-deal Suika Recreation, and I’ve bought to say… I believe I prefer it extra.
There’s simply one thing totally different concerning the physics of Suika Recreation in comparison with Galaxy Combine and related titles. It’s very onerous to elucidate however having been leaping forwards and backwards between the 2 video games all week, evaluating and contrasting, they’re most positively fairly totally different from each other by way of really feel. And whereas the power-ups and combo scoring in Galaxy Combine are neat options that do differentiate it, I’m feeling extra drawn to the purity of Suika Recreation. This can be a no-frills high-score chaser, and the dearth of combos means I’m not by chance making a sticky scenario for myself making an attempt to construct up an enormous chain response, and no power-ups retains my focus squarely on the house administration of the jar and never hoping at the back of my thoughts that I’ll get bailed out of that sticky scenario because of a fortunate power-up.
On the flip aspect, it’s solely honest to level out what I believe Galaxy Combine does higher than in Suika Recreation. Specifically this has to do with controls. Galaxy Combine has a relative contact scheme, which means you possibly can drag anyplace on the display to maneuver your little aimer line. That is good if you wish to transfer your hand out of the best way to see what’s occurring after which make a transfer. In Suika Recreation the aimer line snaps to wherever you contact on the display, so on a couple of event I’ve discovered myself taking my thumb off the display to plan my subsequent transfer after which having the aimer snap to a location I wasn’t anticipating after I put my thumb again to make that transfer, thus dropping a fruit someplace I wasn’t meaning to. This may REALLY screw up a recreation, but it surely’s a reasonably minor nitpick and I’m beginning to get used to it. Nonetheless, a relative contact possibility can be most welcome.
A cool possibility in Suika Recreation that’s not in Galaxy Combine is the flexibility to play in panorama if you’d like. This considerably addresses the difficulty I point out above since in panorama you management the sport with digital buttons, both motion arrows and a drop button flanking both aspect of the play space or all controls on both the left or proper aspect of the play space for ambidextrous one-handed panorama play. Clearly the sport is inherently suited to portrait orientation given the form of the play space, and also you’d should be a borderline psychopath to WANT to play in panorama mode, however I recognize that the choice is there for all of the sickos on the market. I child, I child.
I actually do assume the 2 video games are totally different sufficient that they’ll each discover a everlasting spot on my cellphone for the foreseeable future, however after binging on Galaxy Combine for a month straight and sort of burning myself out, Suika Recreation is providing a pleasant change of tempo whereas nonetheless having that “another go” gameplay that’s simple to select up and play however onerous to place away. Gosh, that was like each cell recreation cliche in a single sentence, however I stand by it. In the event you’re a Galaxy Combine fan I believe it’s well worth the couple of bucks to see what the OG is all about, and when you’re a Suika Recreation hardcore then it’s effectively price plopping a buck all the way down to see what the competitors brings to the desk. One factor’s for positive, we’re well-served within the “merging giant spherical-shaped objects” style on cell and I ain’t complaining. Lastly, this piece was closely a comparability between two particular video games since that’s the perspective I used to be coming from personally, however for a extra basic have a look at Suika Recreation by itself take a look at our overview and perhaps even study a factor or two with our suggestions and tips information.
