Slowly drip fed your way, the early levels will see you limited to the choice of placing one of four enchantments onto your orb slinger in the hope they will help you progress. With cleverly designed levels being thrust upon you at a reasonable rate, much of the strategic side of the game revolves around picking the best power ups for the job at hand. If truth be told though, I care very little for what is being forced upon me and quickly skip the scenes in order to get back into the action at the quickest opportunity.Īnd that’s all because the action which has been included is pretty damn spot on. With a few screens detailing the back story and your overall quest for key retrieval, a map screen tries in vain to promote the story as best it can.
But that’s not to say 10tons haven’t at least tried to inject some form of narrative into the background. The whole game focuses around matching colours, gaining enchantments, collecting special power ups and ultimately unlocking enough runes in order to end each level. Five minutes down the line though and you’ll find yourself powering those balls into prime spots with ease, quickly switching colours with the help of the B button should you need a more strategic approach. Initially you’ll find the shooter takes some getting used to with little help in terms of shot alignment meaning a fair few of your early shots will go astray. You do this by matching colours (as you would expect), and whilst the early levels will see only a few coloured spheres arriving on screen, this quickly picks up pace with the introduction of further hues, ensuring that you’ll need to be pretty spot on with your marble shooting in order to get a clearance before the marbles reach their end goal. Taking charge of a static rotating orb slinger, your quest in life is to do nothing other than clear each and every level of the numerous marbles that come flying onto your screen as they get pushed along at some pace by those evil ‘pushers’.
Sparkle 2 is without question a quality match three shooter.
But there is enough new and fresh gameplay incorporated inside this second Xbox One Sparkle title to ensure that veterans of the genre and complete newcomers alike will be kept busy for some time yet. You may think that Sparkle 2 is just jumping on the glory train that Unleashed brought about, and looking in from the outside, you’d be about right.
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