The Japanese Suika Recreation (or Watermelon Recreation) has consumed my total being and I can’t relaxation till I beat it.
Suika Recreation is a Nintendo Swap sport by builders popIn, and the premise is fairly easy. You’ve a field and also you get random fruit to drop into the field. When two of the identical fruits contact, they flip into a much bigger fruit. Two cherries flip right into a strawberry. Two strawberries flip right into a grape. Two grapes flip into a kind of fancy clementines with the bump on the prime. The chain retains going till you might have two honeydew melons flip right into a watermelon. It’s like a mixture of Tetris and 2048 however with lovable fruit.
On the earth of Suika Recreation, it’s been universally determined that in the event you rating over 3,000 factors, you “win.” In fact, there’s no finish to the Suika Recreation. It goes on perpetually till all of your fruit refill the highest of the field.
I discovered in regards to the sport because of my social feeds exhibiting me never-ending posts of VTubers screaming about Suika Recreation. They have been both bragging about their excessive scores or lamenting their incapability to attain over 3,000 factors.
The factor is, Suika Recreation is simply actually frickin’ onerous. The sport has some physics concerned, so the fruit will bounce and roll round. When you drop fruit in a line, the stress will construct up, squeezing a few of the fruit up or down in your field, shifting every part round in new methods. There’s extra to it than simply dropping the identical fruit on to one another. Typically I’ll place a fruit and one thing magical occurs, permitting a series response of fruit mixtures to happen in lovely succession. Typically I’ll place a fruit and it’ll trigger my big honeydew to leap as much as the highest of the field, ending my run. The trajectory of my spherical adjustments on a dime from one meager cherry placement.
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By no means in my life have I performed a sport the place I flipped between “Oh, it’s so over,” to “WE’RE SO BACK, BABY!” so many instances. I really like enjoying drop puzzle video games like Tetris, Pokémon Puzzle League, and the like, so I’m no stranger to these flipping feelings, however Suika Recreation actually does one thing to me. Possibly it’s the lovable fruit illustrations. Possibly it’s the bouncing physics. Possibly it’s the taunting want to create a big-ass watermelon. I don’t know!
If you wish to check out Suika Recreation your self, there’s a simplified browser version (it even works on cell), however the Nintendo Swap model is extra in-depth, with extra bouncy physics and the power to see the following fruit you’ll want to put, permitting for extra planning. Nevertheless, for the reason that Nintendo Swap model of the sport is region-locked to Japan, we advocate sticking to the browser model till you’re able to commit. When you’re prepared for that, we’ve a information on how one can obtain Suika Recreation on Swap. Or perhaps popIn will notice how large the sport is getting and it’ll get placed on extra area’s eShops. We will solely hope.