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Time to Beat: 1h 41m
Beaten?: 100% Completed
Not to be dramatic, but this is one of those games that honestly reminds me why I even play games. Creative, short, fun, pretty, and very hard to put down.
Basically, you play as a rabbit hitting a giant ball in the air with a baseball bat, stick, hammer, etc. It's a bit of an incremental game, where the more times you bounce the ball, and the higher, the more coins you earn for buying upgrades. It has that 2008 Newgrounds addictive flash game vibe for sure.
Pretty much everything that is done here is done very well; I love the immediate pause whenever you hit the ball so that you can visually appreciate where you've hit the ball and the trajectory is then predictable ("I hit it a little short by accident so it will fly up and towards me") as well providing a ton of drama for when the ball is coming down very fast and you're unsure whether you'll hit it or not. These dramatic hits provide more and more excitement as one game of keep-up goes on longer.
The only criticism I really have of the game is that there isn't much content and the spacing of it is too wide, but I also sort of appreciated it. It takes a long time to earn the later upgrades and by the time you do, you're almost certainly going to be quite tired of playing, and yet, if they had come sooner I think I would have quit just because the game was over, and not because I had spent the amount of time necessary to feel that I was getting really skilled at what the game was actually asking me to do.
I still don't feel that skilled at it -- getting perfect hits seems to have a touch of randomness to it, or is just extremely precise -- but I do feel I got everything out of the game I could ask for and I really enjoyed it.
Compared to all the garbage that comes out on Steam for a dollar or two these days, this game feels worth $10 despite having about two hours of content. It's Just Fun, in a way that a lot of games seem to struggle to understand how to be. Loved it.
Beaten?: 100% Completed
Not to be dramatic, but this is one of those games that honestly reminds me why I even play games. Creative, short, fun, pretty, and very hard to put down.
Basically, you play as a rabbit hitting a giant ball in the air with a baseball bat, stick, hammer, etc. It's a bit of an incremental game, where the more times you bounce the ball, and the higher, the more coins you earn for buying upgrades. It has that 2008 Newgrounds addictive flash game vibe for sure.
Pretty much everything that is done here is done very well; I love the immediate pause whenever you hit the ball so that you can visually appreciate where you've hit the ball and the trajectory is then predictable ("I hit it a little short by accident so it will fly up and towards me") as well providing a ton of drama for when the ball is coming down very fast and you're unsure whether you'll hit it or not. These dramatic hits provide more and more excitement as one game of keep-up goes on longer.
The only criticism I really have of the game is that there isn't much content and the spacing of it is too wide, but I also sort of appreciated it. It takes a long time to earn the later upgrades and by the time you do, you're almost certainly going to be quite tired of playing, and yet, if they had come sooner I think I would have quit just because the game was over, and not because I had spent the amount of time necessary to feel that I was getting really skilled at what the game was actually asking me to do.
I still don't feel that skilled at it -- getting perfect hits seems to have a touch of randomness to it, or is just extremely precise -- but I do feel I got everything out of the game I could ask for and I really enjoyed it.
Compared to all the garbage that comes out on Steam for a dollar or two these days, this game feels worth $10 despite having about two hours of content. It's Just Fun, in a way that a lot of games seem to struggle to understand how to be. Loved it.