Fruit Ninja Kinect 2. Platform: Xbox One. Developer: Hibernum Creations. Publisher: Halfbrick. Total score: 6 out of 10 stars. Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 warmly welcomes back arcade, classic, and zen modes, all of which remain (almost) untouched in their varying degrees of danger and urgency. However, there's also an attempt to add depth with four new modes, a bolstered multiplayer system, and campaign objectives.
Feel the burn as you master the art of the Fruit NinjaPublished and developed by Halfbrick Studios, Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 follows on from the games huge success in 2011. Halfbrick wanted to bring Fruit Ninja back bigger and better than ever and they certainly succeeded.As far as improvements go, Halfbrick have added a whole heap of new content to keep you occupied and aching for hours on end. Firstly, a new Festival mode hosted by four characters. The first game mode was Katsuro’s Ninja Dodge. As well as slicing the many fruit that appear on the screen, you have to dodge red targets that home in on you with a Shuriken hurtling towards you swiftly afterwards. Fruit held up by propellers also fly quickly across the screen for you to slice and so much is going on at the same time it can be hard to chop it all unless you have already mastered the art of being a fruit-chopping Ninja. Second was Nobu’s Bamboo Strike, where the aim of the game is to slice n dice the seeds that are falling with the fruit, Bamboo will also shoot up on the screen and collect bombs so you need to cut that down as well as avoiding bombs to score big points.
After that was Hans Apple Range. Targets appear randomly around the screen and you have to throw daggers and pin the fruit to the target, bombs still make an appearance and will knock some points off if you hit them.The final new added game mode is Mari’s Strawberry Stealth, not only do you have to slice fruit and avoid bombs, multiple spotlights will circle the screen forcing you to lean and duck to avoid them while waving your arms around like a lunatic trying not to lose any fruit, any part of your body entering them will start a countdown of all your hard earned points depleting until you duck out of it. Each game mode lasts just over a minute and will not fail in severely damaging your arms to the point where basic tasks will be near impossible. The thing is, at the time you have no idea how much pain your arms are going to be in the next day. The game is so addictive and fun that you can literally slice Fruit for hours, start feeling the burn but want to carry on anyways. Along with the new game modes comes a new leveling system designed to keep you exhausted for longer.
You level up by completing challenges like scoring a certain amount of points without letting any fruit escape, dodging spotlights while slaughtering any and all helpless fruits that fly into your blades and hitting a set number of a certain type of fruit. Completing these challenges fills in a slot on your belt and filling it ranks you up.Ranking up unlocks rewards. New backgrounds, shadow outlines and blades become available and there are a whole host of them to unlock. Some have other requirements like playing and scoring high in the games many modes. You also earn Star Fruit after each game which can be used to purchase rewards you have unlocked. On occasion they will fly across your screen with the other fruit.
The old favourites are back Arcade, Classic and Zen extend the fun with the new Jumbo Banana in Arcade mode that makes the fruit really big for your slicing pleasure. I’m yet to find something more satisfying than slicing a massive Passion fruit in half and watching the juices splatter colourfully all over the screen.Arcade mode is hectic, with the many Bananas that provide different bonuses and can lead to massive points. They freeze time allowing you to carefully choose when to slice making sure you hit as much fruit in one swipe, double your points and the frenzy Banana which causes so much fruit to appear on your screen, the smoothies are on you. Bombs don’t end the game just subtract points and obliterate everything on the screen. You also unlock various bonus points at the end of the round which make arcade the highest scoring mode you will play. Zen is more laid back.
No Bombs, Shurikens, Spotlights or Bamboo, just fruit and lots of it. Wave your arms around like crazy or carefully plan your swipes for points until the timer ticks down.Classic is a bit more of a pain and actually requires some form of skill or just really good luck.
You hit a bomb and you’re done. Let a fruit drop and you get a strike and if that builds up to three, you’re out. Points are harder but more satisfying in this mode. Although swinging your arms around with excitement scores points, mastering the way of the Ninja requires precision and the ability to rack up big combos by hitting three or more fruits with one slice.The new multiplayer modes were a blast to play when you aren’t accidentally hitting your family in the face as you swipe your arms around trying to score higher than them. I never got the chance to experience the four players the game allows but I can imagine you’d need a lot of room and maybe some protective bodywear just in case.
You can play party mode together for fun or battle it out in a fight to see which of your children is going to throw a tantrum first when they lose. Overall Fruit Ninja Kinect was a complete blast to play. For some reason mindlessly chopping fruit for hours upon end is immensely fun and is a great way to pass the time. The leveling up system extended the game play and gave you an objective to aim for instead of just scoring high and the new game modes added some variety to the game that multiple fruit types just couldn’t provide. The amount of rewards to unlock gave me something to aim for and I loved changing my outline and blades as I progressed through the levels.
It’s just pure and simple fun (until the pain kicks in) and if nothing else, will leave you pining for a nice fruit salad.8/10. Game ContentFruit Ninja 2 is the latest game from half brick studios who also brought us, Jetpack Joy ride and the classic Fruit ninja on Windows Phone & Windows phone. So lets slash our way through the game content, New in Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 you have 5 new game modes, Katsuro’s Ninja Dodge while playing you will have shurikens being thrown at you while slash fruit’s, Mari’s Strawberry Stealth where your skills will be put to the test as you will have to avoid the spotlights so you dont lose your score. Nobu’s Bamboo Strike where bamboo will start growing over your screen so you cant hit any fruit’s so get some extra chopping done. Han’s Apple Range equipped with two daggers where you have to aim and strike to pin the fruit to the broad to increase your score’s, And finally you have the new game mode known as party mode where 2-4 players compete to slice the most fruit and mini games are at random. While you slice fruit in different game modes there will be different challenges to level up, Only a true ninja can reach level 30!AchievementsAchievements in this game are more thought of compared to the last list on Fruit Ninja Kinect, as for reaching the max rank level 30 and reaching a score of 650 while with 4 players in party mode! Good luck with that one??
Assorted achievements for the new games modes too aswell with the slice 10,000 fruit’s again! This will take awhile to complete the listCONCLUSIONWith all the new features in the second Fruit Ninja Kinect game you will have endless hours of fun with friends and family and even yourself! If you like the sound / look of this game (ill include a video below) then buy it, the asking price for this game is perfect @£11.99 or your regional equivalent that you can buy “HERE”.RecommendWould I recommend this game may you ask?Grab a few beers, round up your friends and family for the night and get slicing!There is plenty replay value to this game for all the ninja slicing you needSigning off, Gamer JameoGamer Jameo spent 4 hours in the game, trying out the game.A copy of Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 was provided to the reviewer as a courtesy for the purpose of this review.
.Review for Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 on Xbox One. Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care. Believe it or not, Kinect has been available for almost half a decade and it's still rolling out games.
Of course, it's not as fresh and exciting as it was back in 2010, but that doesn't mean that it isn't any fun. The newly released Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 will have Kinect owners asking if this sequel to last generation's controller-less hit is worth all of the arm strain or is it better to fiddle with buttons and sticks? 1859d ago (Edited 1859d ago )Who gives a rats platoon. This game is not or those guys reviewing it, its for people like me. Don't need a demo and I certainly don't need the opinion of people who got this hatred for Kinect.Too be fair though, he doesn't really hate on Kinect, but he is not being fair for deducting point because it is not a big improvement and repetitive.
This type of game is similar to Bejewel, duck hunt. That are repetitive. It is all about scoring higher and beating your last high score and that of your friends.Thanks for letting me know it was released though.
I didn't realize it would be so soon. Just heard about it a few weeks ago, and that it is and Xbox exclusive. 1859d agoYeah. When I reread what I wrote, the first paragraph seems way to harsh. But I wrote that part before reading your review, then added the rest after.I actually downloaded and played a few rounds of arcade and story (campaign).
Your summation wasn't inaccurate, but I disagreed with your conclusion, because it discourages people from giving it a try. I actually do like this game with Kinect. With Kinect2 you can play a lot closed to the tele, and you can also do co-op (I recommend each person use 1 hand to avoid hitting each other).I played about 6 sessions of arcade and 6 of story. I am at level 3 yellow belt with over 1000 points for high score. But I am a veteran player, so must new comers should expect to get there that quickly. I have unlocked a new silhouette and some other stuff I haven't looked at yet.Should be lots of fun for me and my children and their cousins.Keep doing what you do. Your review is mostly fair and accurate as far as the basics go, but there is a lot of fun to be had here if you don't mind working your arms.
But the hand detection here is super accurate and responsive.