- April 5, 2015
- Lantana Games
Mondrian - Abstraction in Beauty
61%Game Brain Score
music, graphics
gameplay, grinding
67% User Score 42 reviews
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Inspired by the works of the De Stijl masters’ limitations on form and color, Mondrian - Abstraction in Beauty takes an abstract look at the history of video game art in the form of a circular block-breaker.
Audience ScoreBased on 42 reviews
music8 positive mentions
grinding2 negative mentions
- Mondrian - Abstraction in Beauty offers a unique spin on the classic brick-breaking genre with its circular arena and various power-ups, making it enjoyable for fans of casual games.
- The game features a beautiful minimalistic aesthetic and a relaxing soundtrack, making it a great choice for unwinding and de-stressing.
- With multiple game modes, difficulty settings, and unlockable content, players can customize their experience and enjoy a variety of gameplay options.
- The controls are often unresponsive and clunky, leading to frustrating gameplay experiences, especially with the paddle's movement and ball physics.
- Many players find the gameplay to be boring and unengaging, lacking the depth and challenge typically expected from breakout-style games.
- The visual presentation is criticized for being overly simplistic and lacking texture, which detracts from the overall experience.
- gameplay12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The gameplay has been criticized for its awkward controls, particularly when navigating the circular play space, leading to non-intuitive ball interactions and a slow core loop that fails to engage players. While the concept of unlocked components and randomized generation offers potential for interesting combinations, the overall experience is described as bland and uninteresting, with design elements that complicate rather than enhance the gameplay.
“Classic breakout gameplay wrapped in a circular play space designed to look like a hexagon.”
“Each unlock has the potential to work together in really neat and logical ways, and accompanies the solid, chill, evolving gameplay.”
“The cool-sounding 'unlocked components + randomized generation' component is hampered by the different tiles being a challenge to tell apart, and the design of the components only further aggravates the mechanical shortcomings of the game.”
“The controls are awkward, in particular once you've circled around to the top of the screen and they effectively reverse. The ball bounces off things in a strange, non-intuitive way, and the core gameplay loop takes too long to be very engrossing.”
“It's gameplay is very bland, even with the skins over it.”
“The cool-sounding 'unlocked components and randomized generation' feature is hampered by the different tiles being a challenge to tell apart, and the design of the components only further aggravates the mechanical shortcomings of the game.”
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