Hate fruit? Like ninjas? Then Fruit Ninja is the perfect game for you. Fruit Ninja is a touchscreen game for mobile devices where the main object of the game is to slice fruit! You earn points by slicing the fruit and gain bonuses for multiple slices of fruit. There are different game modes available to suit everyone’s play style. It is a fun all-round addictive game that will keep you entertained for hours. Is this a successor to the Angry Birds throne?
The basics of all the game types have fruit being hurled up from the bottom of the screen and then gravity pulling it back down and off the screen. The idea is to slice the fruit in half with a swipe of your finger on the screen before it falls off. So dang simple yet so dang addictive addictive!
The three game modes:
- Classic: In classic mode the game is potentially endless as there is no time limit but with time it gets progressively harder. Along with fruit being hurled into the air there are also bombs which you must avoid hitting at all costs as slicing one of these bombs will end the game! You have three lives in this game mode too, you lose a life every time a single piece of fruit falls off the screen without being sliced. It is probably one of the most challenging game modes since there is a lot to concentrate on.
- Arcade Mode: This is a quick fire game mode which you cannot fail at because there is no life to be lost. It lasts for 60 seconds and the object of the level is to get as many points as you can. This game mode does include bombs like in classic but instead they deduct 10 points from your score rather than ending the round. What’s great about this game mode though is the addition of special bananas which give special powers such as double point modes, slow motion and frenzy modes which hurls huge amounts of fruit at the screen resulting in huge point bonuses. Grabbing a combination of these perks will guarantee you lots of points. Challenge your friends!
- Zen Mode: This is another time limit game. You have 90 seconds to get as many points as you can, the differences from the Arcade Mode are: No bombs or special power bananas. Just fruit. Plain and simple.
The three game modes are all fantastic, but my personal favourite is the Arcade Mode (my high score is 464, can you beat it?) The smoothness of the whole game is consistent and great and complements the game play wonderfully. The animations of the fruit being sliced are great and makes you feel like you’re really slicing it! The splat of the sliced fruit on the background is a great little asset. There’s also fun facts about fruit at the end of the games which I found pretty interesting!
You can use up to three fingers to slice fruit on the game but I found it pretty challenging to control two fingers accurately while attempting to slice fruit. One finger can yield great results but perhaps you could play it with a friend and get them to help slice. It also depends of course on the size of your touchscreen!
There are lots of ways to customise the game as you unlock new material from achievements such as different knives which make a different slicing pattern to different backgrounds. They don’t add any tactical advantages to the game play but can make it look nicer, and stop the game from getting visibly stale
Overall Fruit Ninja is a brilliant game, it’s fun and addictive and you should definitely download the demo to see what it;s like. The game is available for IOS, Windows Phone and Android on phones and tablets. Playing the game on a tablet screen is amazing so if you have a choice then definitely try it on that. At £1.99 its a great price that will give you hours of fun gameplay.
