I found Wizorb to be a great twist to the old Arkanoid / Breakout game style. The look and feel is distinctly 8-bit with a touch of modern features (like rumble on a 360 pad). The difficulty can ramp up quite high, but for me, I find the easiest difficulty setting to be the most fun. I sit back on the couch and twiddle my gamepad to the sound design that seems pulled straight from the NES days. My wife actually asked me if I was playing an old Nintendo game.

On the more technical side of things, Wizorb is a Breakout game with the standard features: you bounce the ball off a paddle that moves back and forth at the bottom of your screen while trying to break all the blocks on the level. The ball bounces off your paddle at an angle determined by where the ball hits your paddle, and various powerups and debuffs occasionally fall down and can be grabbed by your paddle.

Wizorb adds a few nice features, too. You can collect coins that can be used in shops to purchase various buffs that last until you lose a ball, and you have a few "magic" abilities that let you shoot, buff the ball, or change the ball's trajectory. As a nice extra touch, Wizorb also introduces enemies that must also be destroyed. If an enemy attacks your paddle, the paddle is temporarily slowed or stopped, usually resulting in a lost ball.

Overall, the general play is fair, but as an old NES fan, the feel is amazing. It reminds me more of games that we used to play for fun, not to win... I don't think Gauntlet II even had an ending.