Does it succeed?īallance is a level-based arcade offering with puzzle elements. Now the German company Cyparade has developed a new offering Ballance, which tries to raise the bar in this subgenre. Since that time, there have been many variants produced on this theme, such as Marble Blast and Hamster Ball on the personal computer, and Super Monkey Ball on the Nintendo GameCube.
Success required quick reflexes as well as a sense for when to make strategic, but high risk, moves. Remember the mid-1980s Atari game from the video arcades named Marble Madness? It gave players unbelievable fun, controlling the progress of a marble up, down, and around perilous paths. Each of the 12 levels is filled with time boosters and extra lives to help when gamers inevitably drop the ball. For example, the paper ball is highly maneuverable and can be rolled over fans to float, but it is too light to affect seesaws or move obstacles, whereas the stone ball obliterates obstacles but cannot ascend steep slopes. As the material changes from wood to paper to stone players must adapt to the ball's new mass and rolling abilities. Players compete against a clock, but gravity and inertia also come in to play as each level contains transformers that change the ball's physical properties.
The goal is to reach the end of each level without falling off the course. An action puzzle game, somewhat in the vein in Marble Madness, Ballance requires gamers to guide a ball through the nebulous sky along metal tracks, wooden roads, concrete paths, and over and around mechanical obstacles. Atari and Cyparade invite players to get the ball rolling in Ballance.
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