Apple Arcade review #33: Marble It Up

I was hoping for a bit of old school Marble Madness with this one, but no such luck. For a game that’s all about the sense of control (or lack thereof, in a thrilling way), momentum, speed and physics, the controls are surprisingly poor. I tried this on three devices: phone, tablet and TV plus controller. And it never felt like I was actually rolling a marble around…which sort of defeats the point. It’s cliche to call controls “floaty”, but they are. There’s no inertia, no sense of gravity or mass. And no matter what else the game does, if it can’t nail that, it’s a lost opportunity.

Maybe I’m wearing rose-tinted glasses and Marble Madness had the same problems. But man, I loved that game. This is no Marble Madness.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/marble-it-up-mayhem/id1473839579