AntonBall Deluxe Review (Steam)
The breakout title from Summitsphere, Antonball Deluxe is a retro, high-octane smorgasbord of ballbusting arcade action! Antonball Deluxe quite literally turns the breakout genre on its head, blending traditional brick-breaking gameplay with tight, intense platforming.
Pros:
- Decent pixel art graphics.
- 80.83MB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Remote play together support.
- Controller support.
- Graphics-fullscreen, retro filter: on/off, screen shake, and ball trails.
- Four game modes-AntonBall, punchball, Vs punchball and online.
- Extras-lottery and rec room.
- Each mode has its own instructions.
- Online leaderboards for each mode.
- Online-find game, create game and browser.
- Punchball-you have a ball that you pick up and throw at enemies to stun them and then kick them off the stage.
- AntonBall-kind of a Breakout/Arkanoid platformer hybrid. Jump around and hot the ball into the blocks to make them disappear.
- Mini-games in punchball for more continues.
- You get a set amount of lives and continues before a solid game over.
- Lottery-spend collected cash on a pull on the gotcha machine for rewards.
- Rec room-play any unlocked music.
- Punchball plays and sounds like the original Mario Bros game where you hit koopas to flip them and kick them out.
- Retro filters-ATB and Superball advance.
- Gets quite addictive.
- Get power-ups in AntonBall like a gun to clear the blocks.
- Excellent soundtrack and sound effects.
- Many characters to unlock.
- Quick to learn.
- 2-4 player local/online support.
- Level select for each mode.
- Arcade presentation.
- AntonBall has an optional tutorial.
Cons:
- The slight learning curve when it comes to learning the charged jump and air dashes.
- Platforms can be a pain whereby the ball can pass through but you cannot.
- Only a small handful of lives and continues.
- Only one control layout and no way to rebind.
- Hitting the ball in a particular direction can get tricky.
- Very hard to keep track when multiple players are in or you have multiball.
- No real graphics options.
