![]() You must quickly highlight the required ball with the shoulder buttons, then activate them with A – all while reacting to your rival's last shot. These stackable single-use balls are ostensibly quite varied, including various exotic bounce patterns, poison balls, those that temporarily halve the playing field, and even those that spawn a defensive centipede.Īctivating these balls mid-battle can be tricky, as the game doesn't pause or slow the action one jot. Special attacks come in the form of different types of ball, which are collected from downed enemies, bought from shops, found in treasure chests, and scooped up from battlegrounds. Land one of these when your opponent's health is low, and you win the battle. Send the ball past your opponent, and you'll score a critical hit. Each time the ball hits a paddle, it counts as an attack landed from the other party. There are RPG-inflected embellishments, of course. Rather than take turns to hit one another, you'll take part in a good old game of bat-and-ball. You'll take part in battles, encounter mini-game diversions, collect loot, tackle bosses, and level-up your character.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Īll of which sounds a lot like any other RPG – but the key difference lies in the battle system. What it ultimately amounts to is an excuse to traipse through the four randomly-arranged floors on each of four distinctly themed dungeons. The game adopts a suitably bright and breezy tone – one of its few smart moves – as you take control of an anthropomorphised paddle on a quest from a fickle king to gather four orbs. The undercooked execution simply doesn't justify such a left-field smooshing together. It's far from unusual to splice RPG elements into a hitherto unrelated game or genre, but PONG Quest's combination of simplistic virtual tennis with old-school adventuring never quite seems to gel. There's a strong argument to be made that Pong needs a modern revamp more than any other gaming classic.īut not like this. ![]() When it landed in arcades in 1972, Pong wasn't the first video game ever made – but Atari certainly based it on the game that was.
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