Arkanoid ds reception update#

Nintendo Power (65/100) found the game to be fun, but not on par with Space Invaders Extreme: 'Though not as glossy as Space Invaders Extreme (another Taito update from Square Enix), brick-breaker Arkanoid DS takes advantage of the DS hardware more than its classic-reborn cousin by offering a vertical playing field and a touch-control option. Arkanoid was a great game in 1986 and it's still a great game in 2008. Gamespot (80/100) was on the other side of the spectrum, and thought the game had a lot to offer: 'There's more than enough fun to be had with Arkanoid DS to justify its budget price tag, and the multiplayer content and online leaderboards that compare your performances in the single-player Clear mode ensure that there's no shortage of replay value if you're the competitive type.

The sound effects and power-ups may have matched the arcade game but the same action is nowhere near the original.'

But the gameplay is so far away from the original Arkanoid. Arkanoid DS is a 're-imagining' of Taito's 1986 coin-op title of the same name, which was an excellent Breakout clone that shook up the slightly anemic ball/bat/brick formula by adding several new. The Paddle peripheral is absolutely fantastic: the knob has great weight and interfaces with the system and game extremely well. IGN (45/100) felt that the developers took everything that was great about Arkanoid and flushed it down the toilet: 'But once you played the game it's easy to see just how bad of an ' Arkanoid' game it is. Reviews on this game range from good, to bad, to mediocre: We've already seen critics rave over Space Invaders Extreme, but how about Taito's other redone classic, Arkanoid DS? Well, not so much.

Arkanoid ds reception