Paperball

Considering that I was initially going to purchase Rolled Out, an indie very similar to the focus of this review here, what made me take the leap over to Paperball and is it a better game as far as what it sets out to do in terms of simple yet fun and addictive gameplay?

On the note of the difficulty of Paperball, seeing as the game's Steam description makes it a point to highlight the more casual direction as far as general gameplay goes, I can thankfully say that there is other changes that help to ease newer players into the fun ball platforming mechanics as time limits and limited lives are no longer a thing here as well as allowing players to skip a level after failing so many times.

Plus the game features a pretty dang good soundtrack.

Add in various other game modes alongside the typical Arcade Mode that acts as the traditional 'Super Monkey Ball' experience (Medal Mode is closer to SMB2's story mode where you choose which level to play in the first world and need to beat them all at a certain tier of medal to proceed which goes higher the further you progress, Rush Mode acts as a 'time-trial' of sorts that has a time limit where higher tier medals give you additional time to beat further levels, Mad Shuffle lets you customize a random selection of all 230 stages that you can pick and choose with limited lives to beat as many as you can, Blitz Mode allows you to jump like you can in more modern SMB games, Multiplayer Mode pits you against a friend in local two-player competitive action as you aim to rack up as many stars as possible between the two and Flip Mode having two players quickly exchange control of the one ball for the duration of the game) and you can easily see how there's plenty on offer for fans of such a classic gem!

It's not bad in terms of art style, actually no I think the game looks pretty decent when you look at it that way.

Add in various other game modes alongside the typical Arcade Mode that acts as the traditional 'Super Monkey Ball' experience (Medal Mode is closer to SMB2's story mode where you choose which level to play in the first world and need to beat them all at a certain tier of medal to proceed which goes higher the further you progress, Rush Mode acts as a 'time-trial' of sorts that has a time limit where higher tier medals give you additional time to beat further levels, Mad Shuffle lets you customize a random selection of all 230 stages that you can pick and choose with limited lives to beat as many as you can, Blitz Mode allows you to jump like you can in more modern SMB games, Multiplayer Mode pits you against a friend in local two-player competitive action as you aim to rack up as many stars as possible between the two and Flip Mode having two players quickly exchange control of the one ball for the duration of the game) and you can easily see how there's plenty on offer for fans of such a classic gem!