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Home > News > Banzai Blowfish!: Like Angry Birds but with Blowfish — Baannzzaaii!
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Banzai Blowfish!: Like Angry Birds but with Blowfish — Baannzzaaii!

February 25, 2011 by Brodie Beta

Red Piston, a Canadian app company, has released a highly addictive game for the iPhone called Banzai Blowfish. It’s a physics-based puzzle game with 40 beautiful levels, bright animations, and it enables players to share their achievements with Game Center.

At first glance, you can’t help but think of Angry Birds which isn’t a bad thing at all. In fact we’re huge fans of Angry Birds at GeekBeat so we say it as a compliment. Like Angry Birds, the app uses cute cartoon characters, colourful hand-drawn backgrounds, and it also challenges users through physics-based action puzzles.

evilfishTo set the scene: “King Hikari’s son has gone crazy and captured all of the Blowfish in Lake Fuji. It’s now up to one heroic fish to save his friends and restore order to the land.”

Gameplay

The time is now. Your objective is to rescue needy Blowfish from captivity by triggering elements like springboards at just the right times. As a result the Blowfish will be thrown into the air, hopefully crashing into the caged Blowfish you’re trying to rescue before the clock runs out. Timing is everything.

Baannnzaaiiii!

It’s not going to be easy. There are a series of obstacles in the way including; sharp icicles, windmill shaped bamboo that can knock you off ledges, and of course gravity.

Banzai Blowfish

The elements that move the Blowfish around can be best described as spring-loaded bamboo, which in addition to catapulting the fish into the air, also save them from falling down pits. To pass a level, players must activate the bamboo in the right combination causing the Blowfish to bounce along each element. And, if you do it correctly, you’ll crash into the cagged fish as we’d mentioned.

A few levels in, the game starts getting very tricky. By the time you reach stage five you’ll be completely sucked in. Stage two, level two will make you cry.

There are 40 levels as we’d said, with 5 different stages in gameplay (8 levels in each), all sporting various themes; rock, snow, night, water, volcano. If you like the look of Angry Birds you’ll be right at home with the themes and appearance of this game.

Drawbacks: At times you get stuck and need to restart the level. Usually, its a case where you would have died anyhow but it’s still a bug. As an example, in the first stage, if you fail to drop a rock, the character will get stuck in a hole until you restart the level. This problem continued through the game when the Blowfish lost momentum, it just seemed to sit there. It’s really is not a big deal, we just thought we’d note it.

The Bottom Line:

Overall, this game is fun, crazy addictive and it has loads of replay value. Bonzai Blowfish is available for $1.99 in the app store.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Angry Birds, apps, Mobility

About Brodie Beta

Brodie Beta aka @iPhonegirl is a tech blogger, social media strategist and the Co-founder of Drink Social Media. She has written columns for well-known technology sites including The Next Web and a national newspaper in Canada, The Globe and Mail.
Brodie is also the social media strategist at CountMeIn, a social-gifting platform for collaborating on gadgets and products on Facebook.

Comments

  1. Ryan Noell says

    February 25, 2011 at 11:18 am

    Looks like there’s no Android love for this 🙁

    • Brodie Beta says

      February 25, 2011 at 11:21 am

      Bummer i know. That’s why I have one of each, I can’t stand being left of testing something cool.

  2. Curiosity63 says

    February 25, 2011 at 10:44 am

    Hello Brodie,
    thank you for this great written article.

    Another addictive game and awesome looking time waster on a smartphone. 😉
    I wish i had a smartphone to play this type of game, even though i’m running out of time already each day, there are just not enough hours in a day. Twitter is just as time absorbing as Angry Birds or this Blowfish. O:)

    Take care,
    nick

    • Brodie Beta says

      February 25, 2011 at 11:21 am

      Thanks Nick 😉 Yeah, I completely understand, I’m a bit of a Twitterholic myself.

  3. Mike P says

    February 25, 2011 at 10:24 am

    At first glance it really reminds me of Rolando and Angry Birds combined! Thanks for the new game tip!

    • Brodie Beta says

      February 25, 2011 at 11:20 am

      I think its time to play Rolando.. I’ve never played it.

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