Okay game, no real level up – TiKiTaKa! Review

The game allows you to select a ball character to play. When your character levels up, it doesn’t last past death the coins you gain are lost on death. The whole game is shown to be pointless to continue playing (monster design is okay). You can buy weapons from Chest Doors when you get 5 coins, but they break and are lost on character death. You find weapons and powerups as you play and they break eventually. This means you never really progress in gameplay, but reset on death. You can get new eggs to hatch new characters, but they all are the same gameplay-wise. Each resets on death. In essence this game is a Futility Engine. You don’t improve in any lasting way, all money gained is lost upon character death. All level up actions are reset on character death. The only thing you gain with repeated plays is more character eggs to unlock (you have no way to buy anything that lasts except Premium Characters). Game is really only playable for 3 times before the annoyance sets in. UPSIDE IS NO ANNOYING ADVERTS! Woohoo! But yeah, there is nothing to “hook” a player to be addicted to play it.
Review by Matrix29bear on TiKiTaKa!.