Published: 28 Aug 2024
Last updated: 1 Sep 2024
Marble Blast Gold
- Developed and Published by: GarageGames
- Released on: 2002 (as Marble Blast), 2003
- Genres: 3D Rolling Platformer
- Rating: 5/5
- Originally written: ~17th September 2023
There has been no game I’ve played more than this (+ the various custom levels and fan games), and this will 100% stay the most played game to my grave. The game I have the most nostalgia for and yet a game I still play to this day, over 15 years later. Trying to review this in-depth, would be like reviewing my very being, and it would be an incoherent rave of praise.
What I say though, is that its an utterly fantastic nailing of the “early to learn, hard to master” epithet.
The only bad thing I could muster up about this is that the utterly janky physics engine the game uses, feels so great to play around in, is that its subsequently ruined any other marble game I’ve tried due to the physics not being exactly the same (Sorry Marble It Up! in particular - really the next-gen version of this game.)
A great big shoutout to the tireless community that has kept this game alive with oodles of fan-made content, ranging from simple custom levels to full-blown mods. Check out marbleblast.com - this game hasn’t been purchasable for a long long time.
Marble Blast Ultra
- Developed and Published by: GarageGames
- Released on: 2006
- Genres: 3D Rolling Platformer
- Rating: 5/5
- Originally written: ~17th September 2023
The same fantastic original game (Marble Blast Gold) on console, with a few extra additions here and there, mainly around the new fantastic Multiplayer in the form of Gem Hunt - along with some Singleplayer levels, old and new, and a whole lot of shiny polish.
Tim Trance is also still fantastic, all these years later.
