• VI.Guns, Gore and Cannoli; mafia and zombies
  • V.Bleed, for hitting shots in two dimensions
  • IV.Magic Arena, to play the Magic again
  • III.Untitled Goose Game, the game of the (damn) goose
  • II.Overcooked! 2, the game that tests your relationships
  • I. Baba is You sets the rules, you break them

In this series we have already reviewed several console games, but until now we had not got into mobile platforms. Holedown will be the first and, as we confuse ourselves, the last, since it is capable of causing us to lose track of time, space and, if they rush me, even being. What a vice.

To put ourselves in a situation and without exaggeration: Holedown the game that will make you think that your mobile battery is starting to fail, because it can't be that short. But no, it is that we have been 45 minutes in the bathroom break, we have sleeping legs and many explanations to give.

The game could not be simpler and here is the trick: these things get hooked or because they are simple or because one is given to them by a stranger in a sticker after school. Aim, shoot - without this going from shots; here the only thing that kills is time - and move on until we finish failing and start again, to see if we get a better score.

What is fired are balls, which must destroy obstacles marked with a number that is the number of times they must hit them so that they fall. Some of these constructions are glued together, but others simply hold up because they are on top of each other, so taking down the one below causes everything to collapse.

As might be expected, it is increasingly complex to advance and you have to sharpen your aim to strain the balls into the recesses between obstacles so that they bounce over and over again before being lost forever and thus optimize the roll.

Despite its simplicity, before reaching this infinite mode, it is necessary to complete some worlds where an end is reached and statistics are improved -with how many balls to start or the maximum number of them that can be used- which is useful more as a tutorial than as a challenge.

Holedown has no pretense or desire to change the life of whoever plays it; it is entertainment for entertainment. When all this is over, he will accompany us on public transport, waiting rooms and silly moments until suddenly one day, without knowing it, we play the last game. It is like one of those neighborhood friends who stays in it when our lives are already moved by others. Thanks for everything, and good luck on the road . Who knows, maybe we'll find ourselves standing in line at the bank again and burn down the streets again. Or the battery.

TL; DR

What is it? Holedown, the best pastime that has been invented since Parcheesi. If we had put this in the newspapers instead of the sudokus right now Marvel would be ours and not Disney's. Fourth power? The first and removing two bodies from the court.

Why should I play now? Because after forty-odd days - in some cases, pterodactyl - days of quarantine, social norms are no longer valid. And what the hell, when you realize that it is the third time of the day that, while you have Twitter open on your laptop, you pick up the phone and open Twitter, you have to stop. Well, since we are with our hands in a mass with shape and touch of the screen, we are going to have a little game, which will not be so bad. Half an hour later we can always use a 'sorry, I hadn't read it' in the chat or email that we have ignored vilely.

Where do I find it? It is available on Steam (8.19 euros), iOS (4.49 euros), Android (4.49 euros) and Nintendo Switch (9.99 euros).

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