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Tribute Games celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Wizorb with a Switch release on October 6th

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Game 25: Wizorb

For what basically amounts to a Breakout Clone, Wizorb is kinda one of the prettiest psuedo NES games out there. From it's captivating soundtrack to it's charming pixel graphics. Wizorb is certainly dressing to impress.

Unlike most breakout clone games, Wizorb has some nice RPG elements to it; akin to a magic system and power up item shop. While you largely only get money and magic potions throughout the game, you can use various magic spells and power up abilities to either help you control the ball better or help it break more blocks as you launch it. The main problem being how difficult it is to control the ball where you want it to go. And while the appeal of Breakout Clones is slowly chipping away blocks upon blocks of points, it can be a bit mind numbing when you can't really exit out of any given level. While Wizorb let's you at least save and quit out of games, if you ever wanted to leave and stock up on items is a different story.

I think that Wizorb would have been a better game in my mind if I didn't have to do the whole world in one go, but it at least gives you a bunch of continues and the ability to get lives rather easily. I understand that it was a way to score people while playing the game, but honestly a separate score attack and story mode would have been better. Not that I had a lot of difficulties with the game though, but I can see people of lesser patience or abilities being fed up with it.

I’m a Wizard, Sir! Technically, actually, a warlock since...

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