Super Hyper Ball 2 Mixes Pinball and Brick Breaking

I’ve developed something of a minor obsession with pinball in recent months. It started with PinOut, continued with Pinball FX2 VR, and now I’m gobbling up just about every table I can find. Luckily, there’s been no shortage lately (Snowball!, PinPop VEGAS, that Ghostbusters machine at my local bowling alley) — and the number of choices will grow again next week with the release of Super Hyper Ball 2.

The sequel to a 2015 game that seems to have slipped through the cracks here at Gamezebo, Super Hyper Ball 2 promises a mix of pinball and Breakout-style brick-breaking. And considering my love for last year’s Smashy Brick, as well as that great Arkanoid port on Facebook Messenger, this sounds like a better combo to my ears than even peanut butter and jelly.

Of course, plenty of games have tried to combine brick-breaking and pinball before, and we’ve yet to play a game that manages to find a winning balance. You need great brick-breaking, but also solid pinball physics. Sacrificing one in favor of the other will never work, so we’re going to keep our fingers crossed that Super Hyper Ball 2 has managed to find that sweet spot.

We won’t have to wait long to find out. Super Hyper Ball 2 will hit the App Store on January 12th.

Jim Squires

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Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.