![]() ![]() The Enchantments will force the player to focus on matching blue orbs for an assist, or change every 20th orb fired into a Purple Flame shot. Each of the four slots has five unique Enchantments to unlock and choose from. Although, this time around you can equip the Orb Slinger with up to four Enchantments once about three-quarters through the campaign. Same as before, power-ups, or Enchantments, provide the fundamental gameplay element in Sparkle 2. Zuma was great, and while that seems to be the title most will gravitate towards when building their comparison, I’m convinced that Sparkle has what it takes and then some to surpass people’s expectations of a Zuma clone. Bust-A-Move is of course at the tip top on that list. I’m a bit more excited than most to be reviewing Sparkle 2 because I’m admittedly such a huge fan of classic match-3 games from the late ’90s. This is the PS4’s first real touchpad game. This is the first game I’ve played on PS4 that utilizes the touchpad in a way that feels perfectly natural and just owns as the only way to play. 10tons took it to another level by including touchpad controls. Just like on Vita, you can use the left analog to aim and a quick or long tap of X to shoot and aim respectively. More important than visuals is how well the game controls. While a tad less dark than the first, Sparkle 2 delivers really sharp and detailed graphics most noticeably on PS4, but also on Vita. Sparkle 2 is out on Vita and PS4 simultaneously as a Cross-Buy entitled game for just $7 and I can’t recommend it enough. When they did one better by them upscaling all of King Oddball for PS4, I was delighted and it was a huge step toward offering quality puzzle games to PS4 that didn’t cost an arm and a leg like Angry Birds. With Sparkle being their first Vita game, followed shortly by King Oddball, they solidified themselves in my mind as a mobile developer that can effectively port their bread & butter iOS and Android titles to a true gaming platform. Sparkle 2 brings the same long-legged match-3 puzzle gameplay back to Vita…and this time around they’ve included PlayStation 4! And during that process I kept thinking to myself “I hope 10tons brings Sparkle 2 and more to PlayStation anything.” Here we are, five months later and they’ve done exactly that. It feels like only yesterday when I wrote my Vita review on Sparkle. ![]() Posted by Nick K on May 20th, 2014 | 2 Comments | Tags: Sparkle 2 ![]()
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