Woka Woka in action, tap to aim balls that are fired from the centre. Working my way through the various levels, laid out on the jetty - note the bonus prize chests to be opened, and note the lives, coins and stars along the top.

Think Hawai and the Pacific, think heat and bright colours, think jaunty music - it's a far cry from Sparkle's ancient world atmosphere, possibly on purpose! After launch, just tap the 'full screen' control and then you can forget about it! Note the top bar - it's a quirk of this being a UWP game for all Windows 10 form factors. Or maybe I'm right and it's the freemium world that's wrong? It's standard freemium fare (though with crazy £50+ maximum purchases - naughty, naughty, developers!) but I far, far preferred Sparkle 2's 'buy once' model. showered at you in quick succession.Īnd, being a freemium title, there needs to be a reason to pay extra for more currency, more lives, more powerups, so the 'snakes' get faster and harder, meaning that you'll start dying (or running out of time) more often and will then need to pay (or watch ads) to keep going. While Sparkle had laid back mystic music and introduced power ups relatively slowly, relying on quality arcade gaming rather than gimmicks, Marble Woka Woka goes to the other extreme, with jaunty exotic music, visual and audio effects, power ups, bonuses, extras, stars, etc. And now we have another implementation, as a UWP game (which has its own quirk) for Windows 10 (Mobile) and which is surprisingly good, though utterly overwhelming at the same time. 'Zuma' was the original of the genre, from back in 2004, but it has been much copied, most famously on Windows Phone by 10tons, in their Sparkle series. Is it worth learning and persevering? Possibly, though it'll cost you, since the IAPs here are swingeing. Taking the familiar (ball shooting) Zuma premise, bonuses, powerups, and 'special' balls come so thick and fast that you're left breathless in their wake. 'It's all too much for me to take!' sang The Beatles, and it's exactly how I feel about this UWP game for all Windows 10 computers and phones.

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