Stack Ball

Platform, ball and skill games continue to find their place among the most popular apps on the Google Play Store. If Helix Jump was already proof of this, now comes Stack Ball, a shameless copy that adds some interesting elements to the gameplay of that one. Enough, apparently, to be placed among the featured applications this week. A good excuse to have a fun time making a ball drop down a polygonal platform full of obstacles.

Those who have played Helix Jump will find too many similarities in Stack Ball to assume that it is a completely new game. It's more of an update with some changes to entertain staff for at least a few hours in a waiting room, on urban transport journeys, or, safer, during some boring class.

The mechanics are the same. We control a ball that has to descend from a kind of polygonal skyscraper, floor by floor, to the base of the building. To do this, it is only possible to cross the floors of the predominant color, and always avoid black surfaces. These are obstacles that our ball cannot cross, and against which we will end our game if we are not careful enough. The level ends when we manage to land the ball at the base of the Stack Ball building.This will take us to the next level.

Although the mechanics are simple on paper, they get more complicated as we progress through the levels. Soon we come across obstacles that do not allow us to continue in a straight line. Here we have to test our expertise or our patience. Ball Power Up Charge Expertise Traversing enough floors to set the ball on fire to obliterate obstacles. Or patience to find the part of the floor of the color that allows us to continue, since the construction always rotates on itself in the vertical axis.

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We find several excuses in Stack Ball to dedicate a few minutes to it and to relieve our boredom in any waiting room. The first is the aforementioned construction movement. Thanks to this simple mechanic we must calculate the turn to always cross the floors with some effect.An added difficulty to an overly simple mechanic that gives a twist, never better said, and that we liked as an update.

We also found an added difficulty in the Stack Ball levels that we didn't see in Helix Jump. Although in Helix Jump the path to the end of the level was not always continuous either, it was enough to wait for the right moment to cross the blocks and continue on the path. We could also charge the ball and get through some blocks temporarily. However, in Stack Ball things are more complex. Some levels do not have any passageway at all That is, we must destroy the obstacles, so we must reach that floor with the loaded ball, in calls. Without a doubt, a complication that makes us find much more challenging challenges in Stack Ball.

Of course, when we crash into an obstacle, in Stack Ball, the level restarts completely and randomly. In other words, we will not have to memorize the steps and paths, nor will we encounter the same problems and difficulties. Something that eliminates those mentioned challenges if we are not able to overcome them in the first place.

Despite everything, the aesthetics and mechanics are very similar to Helix Jump. Therefore, we can consider Stack Ball as an interesting update in which to invest a few minutes of our leisure, especially if we take into account that it is a free game. Of course, it is full of , so we advise you to play in airplane mode to avoid it