Kid Ball Adventure Review (Xbox Series S)

by Jim Smale · August 23, 2022

For this Kid Ball Adventure Review, we enter a fantasy world of bouncing balls and magic castles in Kid Ball Adventure, a 2D precision platformer where risk is balanced with great reward! Take control of Kid Ball as he pursues those who captured his love through treacherous castle dungeons. To guide Kid Ball to victory, you’ll need to overcome 100 challenging stages filled with traps and deadly enemies, bouncing over spikes and using booster cannons to your advantage! Locate the key and unlock the exit to move on to the next daunting chamber of hazards!

Kid Ball Adventure Review Pros:

Nice pixel art graphics.
383.7MB download size.
1000 Gamerscore.
3 save slots.
Platformer gameplay.
100 levels.
You are always bouncing and all you do is control movement.
The goal of the game is to get the key and unlock the exit door.
Opening tutorial.
Easy to learn.
Gems can be collected for extra lives.
Lightening fast loading times.
Fun to play.
Easy achievements.
Two game modes – adventure and time trial.
Death has you restart but any gems collected will stay collected and only the key gets reset.
In-game cutscenes.
Game over puts you back to the last save point.
Time Trial mode has timed mode, no death, and Doomsday modes.
Local leaderboards for every type of time trial mode.
Big boss encounters.

Kid Ball Adventure Review Cons:

No settings whatsoever.
The achievement unlocks a pop-up that covers parts of the level.
Doesn’t have any online leaderboards.
No replay value.
Never sure when the last save point was.
Don’t even have to finish the game to get all the achievements.

Kid Ball Adventure:

Official website.

Developer: Spoonbox Studio, Ratalaika Games

Publisher: Eastasiasoft

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Xbox

7/10
Graphics - 7/10
6/10
Sound - 6/10
7/10
Accessibility - 7/10
7/10
Length - 7/10
7/10
Fun Factor - 7/10

6.8/10

Summary

It’s never going to win any awards but it must be said that Kid Ball Adventure is a fun little platformer romp. You are on a quest to get the love of your life back and all you can do is bounce repeatedly with you the player controlling the direction only. No matter how you look at it, the game is simple to get into, a ton of fun for a quick reflex gaming fix and the achievements are so easy it only takes like an hour for them all. Like I say it’s not groundbreaking or unique but it is highly playable, fun, and a good example of the genre.