https://play.google.com/retailer/apps/particulars?id=com.Majorariatto.Pureya
I simply stumbled throughout this recreation on the play retailer and I believe it is my new once-in-a-blue-moon recreation that is going to remain on my cellphone for a really very long time.
To preface, I am aspiring to get entangled in recreation design and administration. I am nonetheless pretty younger (within the latter levels of highschool) so after all my passions are topic to alter, however I am very intrigued by what makes a recreation enjoyable. There are tons of various avenues for this, however the conclusion I’ve come to is that polish, particularly concerning ease of play and fluidity, might be crucial a part of a recreation to me.
Anyhow, I’ve at all times thought {that a} Wario Ware styled recreation can be excellent for cell. For these unaware, Wario Ware video games are made up of tons of “microgames” that final solely round 5 seconds. The extra you efficiently full in succession, the sooner it will get. I really feel like one power of the cell platform is the convenience of leaping in and leaping out of a recreation, so this system is fairly excellent for this machine.
Enter Pureya, which was the results of my tireless looking for a recreation like this on cell! Pureya has over 30 minigames that you just slowly unlock over the course of gameplay. The sport is a wholly uninterrupted loop of ten minigames and a pachinko recreation the place you spend all of the marbles you bought throughout the earlier ten video games. It is an awfully polished expertise and is listed for $7, but it surely’s additionally on the Google play go.
Every of the minigames are surprisingly very nicely thought out and replayable. They’re all easy, using solely two buttons on the underside of the display, but they’ve fairly a little bit of room for mastery. After taking part in a very good bit every day for every week now, I nonetheless really feel like I’ve lots to study with every one.
I exploit the time period minigame as a substitute of microgame right here as a result of the basic design of those video games are a little bit completely different than the Wario Ware ones. In Wario Ware, the aim of them is to make a couple of cut up second choices in hopes of finishing the required activity earlier than the timer runs out. In the event you do, you progress on to the subsequent recreation with out dropping a life. In Pureya, although, every recreation has a hard and fast timer of ten seconds, and the primary objective is to gather the marbles that present up in numerous methods relying on the sport. “Shedding” these mini video games is a quite common affair, however the recreation would not have any type life system. Somewhat, when your character dies by falling off of platforms or getting hit by asteroids, the sport respawns you after 1-2 seconds to get again into the motion. The pure consequence right here is lacking some marbles you doubtlessly may have gotten for those who weren’t too dangerous / unaware together with your actions. The video games are additionally tremendous polished right here, with little satisfying interactions right here and there with button presses and so on.
Every minigame is pretty different, as nicely, which is a nice shock given how easy the controls are. All of the video games happen on the highest half of the display, and what occupies the underside is a pair of easy left and proper buttons. Naturally, video games which might be platforming primarily based use these as buttons as left and proper motion, however you would be stunned at what number of different makes use of they’ve. Additionally, even inside the numerous platformers, there are distinct methods wherein your character strikes. For instance, within the recreation the place you progress a penguin alongside a repeatedly aspect scrolling sequence of platforms, the penguin at all times jumps ahead if you press the correct button however strikes backwards usually with the left button. There’s additionally one other recreation harking back to doodle leap, the place your character (a goat this time) is repeatedly leaping upwards and it’s a must to place it to land on numerous small platforms because the display scrolls upwards. That is simply the tip of the iceburg, although, as there is a bunch of video games that are not platformers however as a substitute use the buttons for very completely different mechanics. I will not go any additional with these although as a result of that is already getting very lengthy lol
Like Wario Ware, there’s additionally a pace up mechanic at work right here, but it surely works a little bit in another way. There is a hidden tally for every time you die, and if it passes a specific amount the display will briefly flash an animation that signifies a reducing of the pace. The much less you die, although, the sport may shift to be even sooner. What’s attention-grabbing is that these modifications replicate solely in gameplay pace, not recreation size. Subsequently, if the sport shifts you to the very best pace setting, you’ve gotten the next probability to get extra marbles on the worth of a better probability of dying. In the event you’re shifted to the bottom, the video games transfer extra slowly so that you naturally get much less marbles but additionally have extra time to get your bearings and never die typically. Subsequently, this technique is ingenious in the way it retains various the speeds primarily based in your efficiency, however would not give a loopy nervousness issue of completely dropping your streak– when you get shifted all the way down to decrease pace, for those who’re cautious sufficient you possibly can simply get again to speedy mode in little time.
The minigames are available in units of ten randomized ones, after which the sport instantly shifts to pachinko mode! Right here, there is a easy pachinko machine the place you possibly can launch all of the marbles you bought from the earlier ten video games. It is a pretty easy system with maybe too little variation in marble launching speeds, but it surely’s nonetheless very enjoyable to see all of your work go into getting extra stuff. Every time you get sufficient marbles to hit a goal, a roullete spins which tells you what number of gadgets you get. It is a small element, however I completely love what the creator did with this. Not often, one of many numbers will not match one other, and so there’s a little bit animation of the subsequent quantity (which at all times matches the opposite two numbers) attempting to push the completely different quantity down. It will get much more enjoyable when it goes into an entire ridiculous and flashy particular animation the place the numbers are anthromorphisized (is that the way you spell it?) and duke it out in random conditions.
Anyhow! As soon as the numbers line up, you get that many capsules. Every capsule both comprises a beauty for a particular minigame or a chunk of a brand new minigame. It takes 4 items to unlock a minigame, and fortunately everytime you get a brand new piece it at all times goes in the direction of the subsequent recreation you have not unlocked. For instance, I am going to solely get items for unlockable recreation A earlier than I get any new items for unlockable recreation B. For the cosmetics, there is a metric ton of them and you’ll toggle which of them you wish to see in recreation or simply have all of it randomized with those you’ve gotten unlocked to this point. You can get duplicates, nevertheless, which is perhaps a little bit annoying for some, however I unashamedly do not thoughts because it simply retains the sense of rewards going for a very long time.
Lastly, I simply wish to contact on how fluid the sport is. It’s actually completely uninterrupted the entire time except you exit of your solution to entry your assortment or different small issues. As quickly as you full ten video games, it strikes straight to the pachinko recreation, and as quickly as you full that it strikes you proper again to the video games. There’s completely zero extraneous buttons and plus indicators in any nook of the screen– in actual fact, there is not any icon to entry the primary menu, as a substitute you simply faucet the highest portion of the display. There’s additionally an attention-grabbing UI determination to have completely no textual content in any respect, solely icons. It may be a little bit irritating for some, given a few of the critiques I’ve seen, however I do not thoughts in any respect and I shortly grew accustomed to what icon meant what.
And that is just about it! I am glad to have discovered this little recreation and I will be having fun with it for a really very long time given what number of collectibles there are. I am a very long time fan of Wario Ware and regardless of the a lot decrease manufacturing worth, there’s some issues I believe Pureya truly does higher than it, not less than from the standpoint of a cell recreation. Thanks to anybody who has learn this far, I hope you verify the sport out! 🙂
