Marble It Up! Ultra Review: Keep Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’

The newest recreation to hold on the surprisingly lengthy lineage of marble-based platformers is Marble It Up! Ultra.

Extra within the vein of Marble Blast than Mark Cerny‘s Marble Madness, it revolves around the player taking on wild, Super Monkey Ball-style levels filled with challenging platforms to maneuver under a time limit. A superior version of the 2018 original, Ultra is a polished platformer that’s enjoyable whether or not you’re able to speedrun or simply need clear every stage.

Ultra options over 100 ranges in complete, which is a mixture of remastered ranges from the unique recreation and fully new ones. Over 60 are within the core marketing campaign, which is a superb quantity as the sport is ready to introduce layers to its in any other case easy gameplay. This offers the participant sufficient time to grasp the minutia. This delivers a satisfying problem curve all through. By the top, you’re absolutely ready for the wild ranges and all of the completely different power-ups that it’s essential use to finish them.

The ability-ups fluctuate from greater jumps to hurry bursts, and add a complete completely different layer to the gameplay. It’s significantly enjoyable developing with methods to higher your time, as there are many shortcuts and higher-level methods to chop via the default route. Some ranges, nevertheless, circumvent this by forcing the participant to assemble gems earlier than they’ll end. Which means you may’t destroy all of them in a couple of seconds like top-tier Tremendous Monkey Ball gamers.

Past the attract of the leaderboard, there’s loads of incentive to higher your time in phases. Difficult bonus ranges unlock based mostly on what number of ranges you’ve achieved a gold rank on. You’ll unlock a ton of various costumes, results, and equipment to your marble that vary from wacky (like a marble that performs a recreation of Simon) to some actually visually pleasing designs. You additionally unlock foreign money whilst you play, which can be utilized within the retailer as properly. There’s all the time a great cause to maintain taking part in.

Whereas the prolonged single-player expertise will possible take up the majority of your time, Ultra additionally consists of a number of on-line options that add to its total attraction. Weekly challenges will attraction to extra superior gamers as they provide a set of ranges and distinctive modifiers that retains it feeling contemporary. You may even view replays of excessive scores to be taught new methods.

There are additionally 4 on-line multiplayer modes included. These are admittedly a combined bag, and it’s exhausting to see this turning into part of anybody’s long-term rotation. Some are overly easy, comparable to gathering gems within the aptly named Gem Hunt, however I discovered the Soccer mode to be a enjoyable diversion. Virtually a price range Rocket League with seven completely different phases, you utilize your marble and power-ups to attempt to rating objectives in opposition to the opposing group. It principally made me simply wish to reinstall Rocket League, but it surely was nonetheless nonetheless a enjoyable time for the few matches I performed.

Marble It Up! Ultra Review: The ultimate verdict

You may inform that Marble It Up! Ultra had an ideal basis to construct upon, as it’s as polished because the marbles you roll round inside the sport. The problem curve is satisfying, and it’s genuinely enjoyable to enhance and begin reducing your occasions seeking unlocking extra bonus ranges. Whereas it’ll attraction to gamers that love time trials and a problem at the beginning, there’s a variety of attraction and enjoyable available for any fan of platformers.

Disclaimer: Our Marble It Up! Ultra assessment is predicated on a PS5 copy supplied by the writer. Reviewed on model 1.000.011.