Smash Hit

Smash Hit
Developer(s)	Mediocre
Publisher(s)	Mediocre
Designer(s)	Henrik Johansson
Programmer(s)	Dennis Gustafsson
Artist(s)	Henrik Johansson
Composer(s)	Douglas Holmquist
Platform(s)	Android, iOS
Release	March 6, 2014
Genre(s)	Rail shooter[1]
Mode(s)	Single-player Multi-player

Smash Hit is a first-person rail shooter^[1] developed by the Swedish indie game studio Mediocre, and released for iOS and Android smartphones.

Gameplay

Smash Hit is an abstract rail shooter in which the player travels forward at a constant speed, with dynamic music that changes as the player progresses. The player has to shoot metal balls to destroy glass obstacles, but must aim carefully with a limited supply of ammunition as the game ends if it ever depletes.^[2][3] Any collision with an obstacle results in the loss of ten balls.^[4]

Obstacles can either be directly destroyed with the balls,^[5] or otherwise moved out of the way by shooting a button. More balls can be gained by destroying blue glass crystals of various shapes. Players can earn power-ups and activate them for a certain amount of time. Each power-up gives a special effect when activated, such as giving the player an infinite supply of balls, turning all their balls explosive, or slowing time down.

There is a combo mechanic in which the player can destroy the same blue crystals used for gaining balls to regain a certain amount of ammunition. Destroying a consecutive sequence of crystals will increase the player's streak, allowing them to shoot as many as five balls at once while only using one ball in their ammunition. Missing a crystal or taking damage ends the multiball streak and resets the player's rate of fire to just one ball.^[4]

Successful completion of the main campaign will lead to endless mode, a stage which is repeated infinitely until the player is out of balls.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score Aggregator Score Metacritic 80/100 Review score Publication Score Pocket Gamer

On Metacritic, Smash Hit received a score of 80.^[6] Common Sense Media gave the game 5 out of 5 praising it as "a therapeutic experience", and "utterly hypnotizing".^[7]

Legacy

In 2015, an adaptation of the game for Samsung Gear VR titled Smash Hit VR was released.^[8]

The game would receive multiple major updates after its initial release in 2014, including adding new checkpoints and both new singleplayer and local mutliplayer game modes.^[9][10]

See also

• PinOut – another game from Mediocre involving balls
• Teardown – another physics-based game progammed by Dennis Gustafsson

References

External links

• Official website

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