Happymagenta has been putting out quality games on mobile for years now, and their latest has just hit the App Store today. It’s called Hit the Light (Free) and it’s a take on a brick breaker-style of game but with some interesting twists. Each level is an intricate picture made up of neon lights, and much like real neon lights there are many different pieces of lit tubing to create the various parts of the picture. Your job is to smash or disable all of those neon pieces, but unlike a traditional brick breaker you aren’t batting a ball back into the field with a paddle. Instead you have a limited number of attack types that you can slingshot at the picture, and if you run out of them before you’ve completely destroyed the level you’ll fail. The three main attack types are: A set of 3 balls that will bounce around like a typical brick breaker game, a ninja star that will cut through layers of neon lighting but doesn’t bounce around as much as the balls, and a bomb that can be lobbed to blow up a tiny area of the playfield. If I’m doing a bad job of describing all of this, the Hit the Light trailer should make it more clear.
I have to say that what drew me to Hit the Light initially was just how gorgeous and authentic these bright, neon levels look. If this was just a static slideshow of these levels I’d probably still enjoy the heck out of it. Once I started playing though, there’s just something SO satisfying abo...