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I discovered BreakQuest by reading about games like Breakout. All you have to do to get me to play a game is put Quest in the title. I'm enjoying it at home in the spare minutes between shopping and chores today. 

BreakQuest is mostly just like Breakout except with lots of variations. First of all, your paddle is a space ship with a force field. You can choose different ones to play with. Then the bricks are in all different shapes and arrangements, like one screen was all circles and another was squares all tied together so that hitting one moved all of them. And the shapes don't always just break. Sometimes they change shape or drop items. These items will either hurt or help you. Some enlarge your force field paddle, others give you multiball, others freeze you in place or take away your force field. I'm only just learning which are which. They are small and hard to identify when you are trying to redirect the ball. 

It's a colorful game. Its sound and graphics are interesting but not too complex. I'm playing it on my PS3 and it was designed to play on the PSP as a PSP Mini. Remember those? 

It has a quest mode where you go from level to level until you lose all your ships. There is also an arcade mode that spices things up and makes the game more difficulty in different ways. There is also a super easy, simple mode if you just want to play it as close to Breakout as possible. I'm playing quest mode, of course, and trying to get through all the levels, of which there are plenty. I'm excited to see what crazy levels that exploit various aspects of collision physics.

Oh, and I forgot, some of the items let you shoot at the bricks which brings to mind games like Space Invaders, Asteroids and Galaga.

It's good. There is a sequel too I'm going to check out. That's all. Hope all are well. .