Ten days for Play. Welcome to seven days to play
your Weekly mobile game review program.
I'm Edwin and I'm saint for the past seven days.
I have challenged Edwin to play Battle Breakers from epic games.
I'd like to sing battle Breakers to the tune of jungle boogie
while. I think you need to do it for
us. Now that's all Breakers.
Burn fat for Breakers are. Come on get down.
Anyway yes he says all these different things.
I'm goes, there you go. I'll get it out of your head.
Okay? Now, you're welcome.
Yeah, probably better than the game.
That'll Breakers is the latest mobile entry from epic games.
They are pushing this in all fronts.
They're pushing it on iOS Android and even on the PC, you
can find this game on Steam and on of course on the epic games.
Placed all Epic store, they'll have a stool, gotta have that
store and I thought maybe it would be a little different on
PC because they do It quite prominently but no it is the
same game they show it on like a vertical screen on your PC, just
in with like graphical enhances on the sidebar.
Is there to fill up that empty space just doing.
Yeah, so most mobile first, it is mobile first.
Then PC at the same time or later.
So yeah, this is a I would say it's a tactical color matching
RPG. Should we throw turn-based in
there as well turn? Yeah, exactly.
Turn-based. Sure why not?
Tactical color matching, turn-based, RPG.
Check, check, check check pray. There are lots of gems on the
screen, or what looks like gems, which you have to tap to make
them explode. There's probably some logic that
happens when you do this, but you also have like a set of
characters at the bottom row which are also colored and in
order to use them effectively, there is sort of like a, you
know, rock-paper-scissors mechanic of the green element is
strong against the, the red element.
And the red element is strong against the blue element, you
know, like it's like a triangle of power and you gotta know
which ones to use. In order to effectively break,
those color blocks, but some color blocks, as you break them,
they spawn monsters. And these monsters have hit
points. And this is where you have to
use your characters effectively in order to defeat those
monsters. Hmm.
Can I tell you? You might be asking where do
these monsters come from? Well, allow me to quote, the
theme song. Monsters from the sky.
Want us all to die. They're hiding underground.
Now they must all be found. Okay well I think that explains
it all. Oh that age-old pawn.
Yes. But let me also read you.
The description of course in their own was.
Let's in their own words like the game to us.
Monsters. From monsters, from space
trapped the world's greatest heroes in techno magic Crystal.
Now, it would sure it's one word techno magic Crystal.
Now, it's up to you to assemble the ultimate team of super
Warriors and take back your planet.
One break at a time in this cartoon inspired hero collector
RPG built as a passion project, by a small team at epic games.
Oh, they even put that in the blubber, interesting.
Yeah. So there is another aspect to
this which is the collection aspect.
So when the game starts it goes through your, you know, your
round of tutorials of like how this game actually functions by
playing through a level and you actually start off with maybe
like five characters and then at the end of that level, they get
encased in this techno magic Crystal, by the, the batty, the
big Baddie. Big, boom.
Betty. Oh no, he's trapped in his
technical crystals and You have to select one character from
then on to that will represent your your team.
And so immediately you get the sense of like, okay, I wanted
this game is to actually collect these characters and level them
up. Uh-huh.
Which comes to, I think it's like a big portion of like, very
Asian Centric. Mobile game is like, you have to
collect every character that's out there and each character has
like a different flavor, you can Adorn them with like different
costumes and weapons, and level them up.
So their stats become powerful. Oil.
And this is where like wear a lot of like Asian Games, really
build that fan base and money. So people pay for like
microtransactions to like, you know, Adorn them with new
costumes for the season and all that stuff.
So I can see, I can see how that aspect they tried tried to like
carry this over Belgium. So there is a cutout color
matching aspect where you tapped the map and then the brakes.
And then I'd say like a level lasts about five minutes of you,
maybe a little less. Five minutes of you doing that
and then you move on to the next level.
But before you move on to the next level, there is a little
Exposition. That tells you what's happening
in this world of battle Breakers.
Hmm. And yeah, so everything happens
in right in front of your face, there's lots of stuff happening.
Lots of explosions and Splish, Splash has, and everyone really
eager. I think there's some voiceover
work as well. Right.
And then, yeah, you have to just either click Okay, click submit,
click continue click OK again and then tap on the map and then
then you're playing the map again but on top of that, you
know if you're if you're too tired to press on the colored
blocks right? It's been a long day.
You can simply press the auto
button, which is on the right hand side.
Let's talk about the auto button.
I'm kind of baffled as to why it's there, right?
And when you press on this, it just does everything for you.
It breaks the blocks for you. It starts killing the enemies
for you. It starts using your special
powers for you and it finishes the level for you, right?
Then allows you to go to the next level.
Yeah. How did you feel about us?
So I think this is for people that have probably played the
game. For a much longer time and it's
know you're no longer interested and color matching, you're no
longer really interested in using your special powers to
make sure you kill that body because that at this point,
you're probably strong enough to just like, you know, kill them
right away or like, it just takes a little bit more time.
Yeah. And you're more in it to like
upgrade your person and get the weapons and the Adornments.
That your character might have. Yeah.
And so this is just to like move it along.
Yeah, because there's nothing, there's a bunch of games that
are very similar to this, which I've done, which I found out
through my preliminary reading, as a games.
Professional preparing for the show, right?
It seems that I think there's like a final fantasy version
that does this. I actually think what was that
last drakonia? What is it that we play Galia?
Lost regalia lost plus? Yeah. yeah, it's kind of like
this as well, but I do feel like there's actually more of a
gameplay element and regalia lost Yes certainly but it's
funny is this him strangers, they have this kind of a lengthy
tutorial at the beginning yet they also have an autoplay like
if they're catering for players who played a lot of this style
of game, right? They will be annoyed by this
lengthy tutorial, but the same time for a person for a new
player, they might be just a bit baffled as to why the autoplay
option is there? Hey, I totally see that.
It's like, if you're going to have this really lengthy
tutorial, And then kind of prove that it's not really worth
learning all this stuff with in Auto button.
Yeah. Right.
That just sort of goes past everything, it kind of really
contradicts itself, doesn't it? One fun thing is there's a few
Fortnight character crossovers mmm in the game.
If your fault nighter. So, with equal people who play
for tonight, sure, why not? Yeah, if you're all nighter you
may recognize some characters the pop-up in this game.
Hmm. Easter egg.
Playful night. I don't play this game.
I didn't find them, but I understand, they are out there.
Sure. Being a game made from epic.
I feel like there's lots of opportunities for crossover.
Oh, I think he's like the pink bunny.
Mmm. I'm yeah, I think I've seen on
some streams. Yeah, I think there are some
accidentally. What's important screaming?
All, I know is that there's a guy in like a mask, like, kind
of a cool looking mask and like a dark suit, kind of a robotic
suit. That's all I know.
You'll be back to play the game and try and guess which these
characters are Fortnight crossover.
See ya. So, let's get on to the three,
three by threes Edwin. Yes, three things.
Get in three things, bad. My first point that theme song,
Pretty good. If you like well produce theme
songs, slow almost like a perfect 90s children's cartoon
theme song, it totally is. You know, there's like a nice
animatic. That goes with it as well.
It got me excited about the game when I first started it up.
Yeah. Me too.
I was like, okay, I'm into this right?
They even had that little section in the Middle where it's
like battle Breakers in a world where blow line and it goes back
to the theme song. It was really well done as a
nice touch. Hastings need to be too high, so
If you like fantasy sci-fi story lines.
Yeah, how do you find the story techno crystals from above?
I mean, it was hiding in the ground.
Gotta catch em. All it is very like fluffy.
Mmm. But if you're the type of person
that expects a little something in, between to move things
along, maybe you'll like it. I personally found it just like
kind of meaningless right that introduced me to characters that
I, you know, there was like, No, real drive.
There is a some like sudden urgency.
It wasn't didn't seem like a really well-crafted story just
something that's been added on and yet they expanded so much on
these expositions and like a comic book style.
Yeah. That didn't really work for me
so I just I was kind of forced to just skip over it but if you
like that kind of stuff and maybe you'll like this because
there is a lot of it, there is And that's what a good point.
Wait, maybe do like casual style color matching games.
That's even casual enough for you, to set it to auto mode
feels like, makes you feel like you're doing something, this
might be the game for you, like I feel there is a market for
this stuff where people like the collection aspect people, like
the leveling up aspect, you're building up your character,
right? Every every day you can make a
little, you can chip away at the XP, you know, and make the
character a little better. You might like this game.
Yeah, right. It's free.
Yeah, but boy, that's first thing that tutorial.
I'm cygwin the bad points. Like, if you do like casual
games. Hello?
I'm Edwin. I like casual games, like to be
given this sort of pretty heavy-handed tutorial first up.
There's any of even some languages, like choose your
character, you will go to change it later stuff, which is always
a little bit off-putting. Ray have no idea.
Really, what you're doing, I chose someone who looked like
everyone else. Well, The characters I couldn't
he tell you the difference between them is basically never
isn't it too early on in the game.
You have no real context for who they are.
And yeah, I got any relationship with them at all right.
Right. And then you get this very heavy
feeling tutorial. Yeah, you can turn to off and so
I was already noise in the game and then kablam you're hit with
the login wall. Mmm, you better have your epic
megagames ID already set up because otherwise You have to go
through whole sign up process. And that was a point where I
failed out because I was annoyed and Furious, right?
So lazy. Yeah.
If you're looking for a deep meaningful, puzzle game with
deep tactics, even if the tutorial makes it seem like it's
something a little bit deeper. Ultimately when you actually
play, I mean I feel like you can play this without really looking
at it, you can just tap anywhere on the screen and you'll
probably get to the next level. We do something.
Right? Yes, because it's very, very
cluttered feeling, it's very cluttered healing and I almost
feels like there's really no Faults.
Why do you mean like I find it very difficult for all of your
characters to die. So you fail, that level.
Oh, I see what this is. You're not going to fail.
There's no right impending, doom.
Yeah, and you know, one of the main aspects of this like this
color breaking, like your breaker, you're breaking these
color blocks, don't battling as well, and there doesn't seem to
be any tactics and you breaking them as well, like, what order
you have to break them. Like, and when you see this
color matching, this, this color game, you kind of feel like, oh,
maybe it's a game. Or after destroyed this block
first and then allow me to destroy this block second and
some strategy but no, it's just you just break them all.
Let's just say it's like pop ringing, what is that?
Yes, it's like the, the packaging bubble.
This is kind of like, you know, breaking the packaging bubbles
poppity pop. If you like that kind of game,
this might be a gift for now. I'm actually a night like this.
The visual style is, I was confused by it.
I understand that like, there is a style of this very hyper
color. Very cluttered very easily in
your face visuals as like, that's cool.
Like, I get that. But there's something about this
game. That just felt messy ride and
just like cluttered and hyperactive.
He was also just kind of clumsy and unappealing.
Yeah, the same way. There was there was an aspect.
I mean outside of that. It just felt like very hmm, a
student we know what the style was like you didn't seem like
the fonts and the it kind of reminded me together at all kind
of reminded me of being on deviantART Where there's a lot
of really good art but there's no UI or proper UI design, that
sort of fits it all together. Yeah, right.
It's just like really good art, really good art, really good
art. You know, the Artistry of like
the characters are all really well done but when they're just
all like sort of smushed together without a nicely
designed canvas. It's just you know it just seems
like it's hot garbage. Like all over your screen.
Yeah and everything's exploding. Everything is like multicolored.
Everything is super Dynamic with motion blur and you know it's
just a Too much. Yeah.
Agreed Sam. What was your final 70 rating
for battle Breakers, you days? No no no their Breakers and in
Europe gonna do mobile phone, how the song goes?
Yeah, it was a one day for me, I do you ask me, there's a, I miss
a two-day as well because I may have started the tutorial once
or twice Bray. And of course, it forgets to be
opposition in the tutorial because it is B you to have a
longer attention span than I do. So, I had to replay that a few
times and then I hit the sign up, all when I was Furious.
Wow. So I'm I'm very badly.
I mean, that's a solid. I mean, I feel like there's no
reason to stop. I just hate, I just was just up.
Ya know. But this is exactly why games
and the Apple arcade exists. Yeah.
Right. It's because there's no sign up
needed. There's no ads.
It's sort of, like, kind of quality controlled for these
reasons that allows you to be an apple arcade, right?
Yeah. So I get it.
I mean if that's Stopper for you in the stopper for you.
And I will stopped. And you are stopped.
I was stopped for other reasons. But yeah, today's and one day,
sorry battle Breakers. We tried to like it.
This is also recommended by the Chad.
Oh, yeah. The snare of the show.
He did say the theme song was great.
Yeah. So he's right, which is great.
Yeah, I agree. I'm so just listen, the
soundtrack on Spotify. That was Battle Breakers.
Chosen by Sam, which means now Falls to me to pick the game.
For the next week, Sam, you have seven days to Play, heli, 100ml
atli. The number 100 are already a
bit, you know, I'm already biased by the name.
Hmm, but let's see. Well, let me tell you, we are
revisiting a game from one of the previous developers.
This is tree man games and they have made.
That's cop chasing game. Oh, Paco, Paco, forever, Paco,
and Paco, forever. Yes, they've got a new game out.
Heli, 100, 100 plus levels. Of Destruction to record.
It Haley 100-plus. Anyway, they have a new game out
as a few weeks ago, and that is what you should be paying for
the next seven days. All right, I did, like, Paco I
did too so, we'll see how this goes.
Before we go Edwin. Things of the week, low.
My thing of the week is the TV series Daybreak on Netflix
conquer. Give it a full hearted
recommendation, but it was enjoyable, nonsense.
Mmm, Kyle, perfect, like, Thanksgiving week where your
little bit lazy. You can want something a little
bit fluffy, but also comical but also you're not too heavily
invested in it, and that was kind of just a perfect thing.
Hmm. It is a popular post,
apocalyptic teenager World. That also has Matthew Broderick
in it. Oh, that's right.
It does have Matthew Broderick in it.
And if that is not enough to tempt you, then I don't know
what it is, but it's a, it's a fun game.
It's a fun place. A fun romp.
Yeah, if I were to describe it it's kind of like they got the
essence of like an 80s movie but made it into a TV show for now.
Yeah, the first 30 minutes of very much.
What the hell is going on, right?
With a lot of like had tips to older 80 movies.
Yeah. Like I think it's very uneven.
I think the first opening it was a whole verse episode is a
little bit like wait what? This just feels crazy but it
does settle down and I think we are a little bit, like, are the
first episode pops, come this half inning the second or third
episode. We were, we were hooked.
So yeah, give it a try, be warned.
Yes, the first episode is pretty crazy but it was a fun, what
fun? It was a fun Thanksgiving week
watching. I can see that.
Yeah I think I made it past the first episode and decided.
Okay I might give this try. Yeah, yeah.
My thing the week is another Show on Netflix.
I'll look at us. It is the third season of dragon
Prince It's wild horse prints red.
I wish I almost when he died impressive.
It is the third season of an animated show by the creators of
the last Avatar and Legend of Korra from their head writer
era. Neha's, why do you know so much
chi? Chi is sort of like, you know,
this was his after he finished writing, I think.
The Last Airbender or the last Avatar.
He went on to like sort of leading this with a new company
called Wonder storm entertainment which Netflix has
fully produced which is cool stall.
It's on season three only like 10 episodes per season.
30-minute episodes animation is done cool in like a CG way but
it sells shade is it looks like a cartoon.
Hmm cool. It touches on like pretty heavy
moral decisions but done with like a lightness that makes it
really palatable but like they're really pretty intricate
stories of like what's happening as compared to like you know the
last Avatar which we've all seen what you've all seen.
Yes suddenly this room but yeah it's great.
I think you know still continuing to watch it wrapped
up season three looking forward to season for also do stuff.
Nice. I will add that to the list
alongside Hilux high tea hi Hugh yes which is not spell how I
thought it was felt. No hiq.
That would have been great sounds like a British quiz show
you how is it spelled h AI Kyu. Exclamation mark exclamation
mark oh the double exclamation point bang Bang's and that's our
show Sam. You have seven days to play.
Hello. 100, heli, yes, kind of fun to say Haley 100 and as I
show them this way,