Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000: Video Review Games

Tetris Effect And Tetris 99 clearly demonstrated that even in the “ancient” games you can breathe new life, and do it in different ways. But if Tetris in some sense is immortal, then Pong Remember unless in books and articles on the emergence of the gaming industry. Creators Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000 decided to fix it by adding to your version Pong Black Jack and … Shepard.

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As in the above-mentioned variations of Tetris, there are no central gameplay mechanics here. As is known, Pong is a digital version of table tennis. The field is divided into two equal half and two participants beat off a small square (it plays the role of the ball) using shifted up and down rackets. Failed to repel – the ball flies outside the screen, and the winner gets the point. In the novelty everything works in the same way.

Differences from classical arcade rushes immediately. In particular, opponents here always look different. One is a huge, the other is skinny stick, the third can be the size of a broken ball. Each meeting with the new enemy is accompanied by its description. That’s just the text is usually not combined with what you see on the screen. One of the opponents, for example, will be Spydicus – “Creepy Octopiculture Monster”, as written on the screen at the beginning of the level. But in fact, this is an ordinary dark brown racket, which even one leg does not see.

Developers concentrated more on quantities, and not on quality. The main “plot” consists of 200 levels, and for everyone (with the exception of repetitions), they wanted to come up with his own description. Sometimes the opponents still change the appearance drastically – one of the bosses here is the three-headed hydra, which is not very similar to the hydra, but it is clearly visible three heads. But the design of the Octoprics (“half acuproodil, half a person) will have to come up with my own, looking at a simple blue rectangle.

As a result, the enemies by and large do not change in any way, because of what the gameplay in Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000 It becomes slightly monotonous. Anyway, Pong – not tetris, the mechanics in it is not so exciting. Especially when an artificial intelligence is as if begins to succumb and deliberately skips the ball, he constantly beat him off, as if predicting before your strike, where it flies.If one of the participants is poisoned, the corresponding Aura is formed about it.
Fortunately, the gameplay is not limited to the movement of the racket – here you need to think a little. And the player, and the opponent has a limited supply of health – with each balling, the ball is torn out of “life”. If they end, the racket is destroyed and the round can be considered lost, but in the next round, the racket will return to the place of intentibility and safety. But if the point you earned, but health remained very little, it will not automatically heal here – you will have to somehow win being in a hairs of death. As you pass, it will have to pay more and more attention, and here we come to the most interesting element – pumping.

And here role items

After another victory, the number of “lives” and mana is increasing forever, and it is also proposed to choose an improvement – first it is only one thing, but over time the list will develop up to several points. You can increase the force affecting the power of your attacks, good luck (increases the chance of critical hit), dexterity (affects the speed of movement) and other parameters, including the width and height of the racket. Sometimes other options appear – for example, if you open the chest, you will get cosmetic items for the “main character”, and another item unlocks new musical compositions.

First of all, it is advisable to pay attention to the magic that opens up new options in battle. Soon after the start of passing the racket will be able to produce “fireballs”, which either directly appreciate the opponent damage, or set fire to the ball and send it towards the shot. Then it will be possible to cover your own racket with poison – if the ball touches your toxic surface, and then bounce off from the enemy, that will lose health within a few seconds. There are ten spells here, one of which allows you to heal by simply pressing that in battles with strong enemies it is accurately useful.

With each new level, the racket becomes more powerful, but only from the player depends on which direction it will develop. You can constantly increase the supply of health or more insertion into mana. You can spend bonuses to study opponents and eventually see before the fight, how many people have “lives” by selecting tactics depending on the survivability of the opponent. If you raise the speed and change the height of the racket, it will be possible to react soon to flying balls. Or you can concentrate on your own power and try to quickly destroy the opponent, passing up.For love sometimes you have to deceive.
Locations on which fights are occurring, differ. Sometimes these are ordinary “tables” in the spirit of the classic Pong, and sometimes there are portals that affect the movement of the ball and shells. There are both shapeless puddles of acid or water that cause damage when approaching or extinguishing “fireballs”. However, on the gameplay it is influenced irrelevant – even when the field is born with mines, you are engaged in approximately the same. Portals can be slightly confused due to the fact that they are always located in different places, but the remaining elements of the environment do not change the gameplay.

There are bosses here. Usually, they are not so easy to defeat them because of their huge stock of health, but with them funny mechanics. With all bosses you can start a novel – after the first round, a dialog box appears with the ability to choose a replica. So that the opponent falls in love with you, it is often necessary to choose those options that require a certain number of intelligence points or good luck. Otherwise you have to rude or pronounce a shaft joke. In fact, this mechanics does not affect anything, and still win everyone, but it’s nicer to see in the center of the screen of the heart, and not an evil face.

With what is the captain Shepard from Mass Effect? And despite the fact that he voiced his actor Mark Mir (Mark Meer) constantly says something here. It comments on the use of spells by the player, then reads some phrases at the beginning and end of each level. Sometimes it even comes across the phrase “This is my favorite table tennis on the citadel” – to whom, how not to him, such?

If you repel the ball “Fireball”, then the damage itself will not get, and the opponent is stronger.
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Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000 could be even better if the opponents and situations were more diverse. But even with such shortcomings, there is a desire to re-run the game again and go through at least a few levels – you disappear in it as a result of half an hour and you do not notice how quickly time passed. Classic gameplay Pong With magic, pumping, novels and other unusual elements – it is for such absurd ideas that we love indie games. In addition, there is a novelty of only 61 rubles – even if you don’t like it, I don’t have to regret the money.

Pros: Classic gameplay Pong in a new wrapper;The elements of the role-playing game, oddly enough, really affect the character’s abilities;A funny idea with spells that make sense to use;Comic descriptions of opponents and dialogues with bosses;voice actor from the actor who gave the voice Shepard.

Minuses: Opponents although they differ outwardly, but almost always are boring rectangles;few elements of the environment that would change gameplay.