However, MIU features far more environments and power-up options. Marble It Up offers up dozens of stages вЂ“ 40 in total, so in terms of quantity of content, itвЂ™s leaner than Marble Blast Ultra was on the 360. Sometimes, a sink or swim mentality works вЂ“ but in the case of that game, it didnвЂ™t always work out in execution like it did in theory.

That game was quite user-friendly early on, but ratcheted up the pain fairly quickly and didnвЂ™t always give players enough time to learn the new mechanics for power-ups. The slowly-scaling difficulty curve featured here is a bit better than the somewhat harsh learning curve of MBU though вЂ“ and with this game being a spiritual successor with many of the same devs at the helm, thatвЂ™s good to see.

Marble Blast Ultra was definitely a key inspiration to Marble It Up, but this new game features more of what made that game great, and a bit more content and overall polish.ДЇans of Marble Blast Ultra will be right at home with this gameвЂ™s glossy finish to both the ball and the environments. It also introduced a lot of environmental-based puzzles akin to what was featured in Madness, but with more player input thanks to power-ups. Marble Madness had you control the marble itself, while Monkey Ball shifted the environment around you, and Marble Blast Ultra brought things back to Madness and had you move the marble. How each style of game controlled was interesting in its own right. Super Monkey Ball took that concept and shifted it a bit by focusing on tougher stage design and greatly-expanding the scope of things. Marble Madness itself gave you a small level selection, but a high amount of tensions and hazards to work with. Marble Madness was an arcade smash 30 years ago, and since then it has inspired some high-quality affairs вЂ“ including Super Monkey Ball, Marble Blast, and its Ultra variant that achieved cult status on the Xbox 360. Gaming and marbles may seem like two completely dissimilar things вЂ“ and yet the combination of the two has frequently resulted in a lot of fun to be had.

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