Review: Beautiful Bricks (Steam)

Beautiful Bricks is the ultimate 4 player brick breaker. Restoration of an arcade great with awesome improvements like physics-based ball behavior, more paddle control, 4 simultaneous players and boss battles. All presented in a consistent retro ‘8-bit’ aesthetic.

Pros:

• Chunky pixel art graphics.
• 193mb download size.
• Arkanoid inspired gameplay.
• Own in-game achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-scale and menu line spacing.
• Customize screen-Wallpaper and border art.
• Control mode-slick or stiff.
• 3 modes- Main game/Vs/special game mode.
• How to play section.
• Unlocks-visualer/hardcore/EDFI/max firepower.
• 3 difficulties-easy/medium/hard.
• Special modes-endless/boss rush/invader/marathon.
• Vs-competitive/volleyball can set rules and length.
• Local leaderboards.
• Bar-can does light/hard or even jump when hitting.
• Power-ups plenty from multiball to the sticky ball.
• Boss fights.
• 2-4 local play.
• Simple concept.

Cons:

• No fullscreen option instead you have to alt+enter to do it.
• Clunky user interface.
• No online leaderboards.
• No steam achievements.
• Have to unlock many of the modes.
• Way too many power-ups to remember.
• Mouse cursor stays on the screen.
• Music.