Peggle Blast

Alright, I left a review before, but I’m changing it. This game is so bad. It’s a genuine insult to the original Peggle game. Those ice pegs genuinely aren’t fun, and neither are the fireballs. Unlike Peggle, the levels are small and compact, meaning there’s zero room for creative level design. The ball physics themselves are just so awful too, they don’t feel fun anymore, and they just feel extremely bouncy. You have to understand that hard games must be compensated by also being fun. Peggle Blast sucks the fun gameplay out of it, expecting you to purchase power ups to beat levels that weren’t designed to be played without such powerups. Please never make another mobile game, and don’t even think about making another game in the Peggle series.

Is it just me or is it like it straight avoids the orange pegs? And every time you get a pin it gives you a stupid purple one or the arrow? Like every time? Took me 3 months to beat level 69 and never got one fireball not once kinda crazy.

Just make it a one time purchase if you wanna make money. Stop shoving ads down our throats after every level. There shouldn’t be a lives cap.

I played through this a couple of years ago and it was good. I even paid for in app purchases. But it is now so overloaded with ads it sucks to play. Every try there is an ad. And it offers boosts if you watch an add but them often doesn’t give you the boost. Went from a great game to a horrible game. You will hate it.

Really like the og and that’s what I was hoping for. Recommend this game for bored adults

Listen, I love Peggle and I always have. I used to play this on an old broken down iPad as a kid, but now it’s just ruined. There are micro transactions everywhere, not to mention you have to watch an ad after every level to keep playing. To put into perspective of how greedy they are, they give you the first 3 stages completely free, then they give you ads. It’s like they’re luring you in, getting you addicted with no ads. Then springing them on you out of nowhere hoping that maybe just maybe, you’ll keep playing. And it worked on me at first as well. I played up until level 78, the ads ruined it for me. The levels are practically impossible unless you spend money or watch an ad. They’ll give you some tame levels, then once you get hope they’ll give you a nearly impossible one. Screw EA games for ruining Peggle.

The hate for this game makes no sense, the ads are completely optional and the game is completely beatable with any power ups whatsoever. This game brought me back to a better time, Peggle is a great franchise and the worst thing about this game is that it ended.

Game was fun until I ran out of lives on a needlessly difficult map and found out that you have to pay for lives or wait 30 minutes each time you retry the map

I have been a Peggle player for most of my life. I have a combined playtime between Peggle Deluxe and Peggle Nights of about 500 hours. I say this to preface my main thought on this “Peggle Blast” game: this is Peggle in a skinsuit. It starts off okay; the artstyle is bland and generic, taking the original games’ art and reducing it in every way, but it’s technically fine enough. The first few levels are what you’d expect, as well. But the cracks form quickly. Here are the main issues: 1. The level gimmicks - This game is full of levels that aren’t designed to be completed with just your standard ball; they are meant to be played using limited powerup items that you need to pay real money for. The gimmicks in this game completely ruin it, making the point of the experience not about being fun and challenging, but instead being about frustrating the player enough to get out their credit card. The ice and sticky goo make you have to hit pegs 2-3 times to clear them, and the gem and egg hatch levels change the objective of the game entirely. These levels aren’t even about clearing all of the orange pegs. I was tepid about these new mechanics at first, when the level designs weren’t so egregious, but later on (around world 3 and 4), these gimmicks make the game borderline unplayable unless you use the powerups. They’re in practically every level once you get past the first few worlds, and again, these gimmick levels are designed around forcing the player into submission via frustration. This is coming from someone who earned every trophy and completed every challenge in the original Peggle games. Nearly all of the levels past the first few worlds are stupidly frustrating by design to get people to buy powerups. 2. The ads - The game is deceptive with these. The first 2 worlds don’t have ads, and it seems like a pleasant experience at first. Then, at the end of world 2, it starts throwing you an ad EVERY time you win or lose a level (and with how frustrating the level gimmicks are, you will be losing a lot). They get atrocious, and only appear after you play the first couple worlds, fooling you into thinking the game will be chill about these. In addition to the poorly designed levels, the ads just make the experience even worse. 3. No high scores - This, to me, is proof this game has no intention of being for people who actually enjoy Peggle. This game doesn’t keep track of any scores you get on each level, killing all replay value. What makes me continue going back to the first and second Peggle games are scoring systems, which encourage high-skilled players to return and master the games’ mechanics. There are challenge modes in the old games as well, which this is completely missing, too. Instead, we get a generic 3-star scoring system on each level, which is also impossible to complete on some later levels unless you use the paid powerups. There are a variety of other issues as well, like the writing and humor of the original games being distorted into bland mush, and no way to fast forward on levels to get a good shot when there are moving parts. Peggle Blast is not Peggle. It’s cheap and frustrating, especially to anyone who actually enjoys the old Peggle games. This was not made for them, or new players. The only reason I’m giving 2 stars in this review is because everything technically works, and there is some fun to be had in the first couple worlds, but the game intentionally tanks itself beyond that. If you like the core concept of this game and haven’t played the original games, they are easily available on PC through Steam, Xbox, or EA’s apps. Go look there to get games that are actually worth your time.

I just want a fun game and not a game that is only there to suck money from its fans.