You give the townsfolk money to rebuild their houses that some evildoer thingie destroyed instead of telling them to get up off their asses and go find a job to pay for their own fucking repairs. The whole town thing is completely underutilized. That doesn’t make it an RPG though, and if it does than perhaps you’ll like such other titles from the genre like Forza or Mario Party. There’s no exploration, exposition, or any decision-making that has any consequence other than “give your money away, get a free life.” But it does have a shopping element, which is different from any Arkanoid clone. That’s the entirety of the RPG experience. Along the game’s 48 stages you can get cash that you can use to buy items, or alternatively give to the town’s citizens to help them rebuild their houses. Staring at this picture is only slightly less interactive than actually playing in the village is. It’s like saying painting a Pinto red makes it a Ferrari. It’s the same fucking game that has been around for twenty-five years now in a different coat of paint. It’s not an RPG in the slightest bit, nor is it innovative at all. A lot of people are throwing around terms like “it’s Arkanoid mixed with an RPG” or “it’s a whole new take on brick breakers.” It’s not. And it looks like it tries to do new stuff with the Arkanoid formula. Now watch me go all Lizzie Borden on this thing. Not just for an Indie game, but the Xbox 360 in general. Still, for all the muck I’m about to rake up about Wizorb, it’s likely the best Breakout tribute on the Xbox 360. Shatter on the Playstation Network stretched the limits of it, but otherwise this style of game hasn’t changed all that much since Arkanoid back in 1986. There’s really only so much you can do with that genre. Of course, all the credentials, artwork, and prettiness can’t mask the fact that Wizorb is still a brick breaker.
Who wouldn’t want to buy a game with flyers that look like that? That’s some sexy ass promotional art there. And third, just look at this fucking promotional art by Michael James Brennan. Second, it has an honest to God gaming pedigree, having been designed by Jonathan Lavigne, who worked on the Scott Pilgrim vs. It’s one of those rare retro games on the Xbox Live Indie Game marketplace that tries to look like an NES game and actually succeeds without in some way pulling back the curtain so that you can see we’re still on the Xbox 360.
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