{"id":20891,"date":"2021-02-12T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20891"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:01:28","slug":"fruit-ninja-2-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/fruit-ninja-2-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Ninja 2 (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While it may not have movies like Angry Birds, or TV commercials like Candy Crush, Fruit Ninja is still one of the most popular early mobile games.\u00a0 You might\u2019ve even had it for free pre-installed on your first smart phone!\u00a0 I think it was one of the first mobile games I saw at PAX, and I even reviewed an educational game based on the franchise a few years ago<\/strong><\/a>!\u00a0 I\u2019ve even seen versions of this game in arcades!\u00a0 And now it\u2019s finally getting a sequel! (reviewed on iPad here)<\/p>\n

Gameplay is pretty much like the first game.\u00a0 Use your finger to swipe at the touch screen to cut flying fruit in half, and do this a bunch to get a high score.\u00a0 The first thing you\u2019ll do is create a ninja character for others to see in multiplayer modes.\u00a0 You don\u2019t get much to start, but you can unlock and buy characters and outfits as you play.<\/p>\n

The main mode you\u2019ll play will probably be Arcade Mode.\u00a0 Here you have a limited time to slash as much fruit as possible.\u00a0 Avoid slashing bombs because they can break your combo streak, subtract some points, and eliminate any uncut fruit on screen.\u00a0 You do want to slash special striped fruit, though, because they can temporarily slow down fruit and other things.\u00a0 You can also unlock power-ups that you can equip and activate at any time.\u00a0 These include a vortex to suck in fruit to one spot, one that makes fruit really big, or a wave to send a bunch of fruit on the screen.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to really use these powers as much as possible, because it can really increase your score.<\/p>\n

There are also mini-games that you can play by using special tickets.\u00a0 These including slicing fruit and avoiding bombs in grids, sliding down chutes, and more.\u00a0 You can also try Zen mode, where it\u2019s just you slicing fruit without having to worry about bombs.\u00a0 Classic plays like the original Fruit Ninja where you must avoid bombs entirely or it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 Fruitar Hero is like a music rhythm game where you must swipe fruit in certain directions as it passes a line.\u00a0 Kind of like Dance Dance Revolution.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0There are also multiplayer modes as well where you go against another person online.\u00a0 You must slash the most fruit, but only the ones highlighted in your color.\u00a0 It can be kind of hard to tell which is yours sometimes, though.<\/p>\n

Other places you can visit include a shop where you can purchase items and upgrades with the in-game currency, or buy things with real money, too.\u00a0 The armory is where you can edit your character, equip different blades that have new swiping animations, as well as select and upgrade power-ups and other things.\u00a0 Last is a garden where you can plant seeds and wait a while for them to grow into fruit which you can then harvest for more rewards and goodies.<\/p>\n

I do like the idea of this simple time waster, but at the same time, it didn\u2019t have enough staying power to keep me interested.\u00a0 Plus, it feels less like a sequel and more of an update to match current buying practices of today\u2019s modern mobile titles.\u00a0 Progress to unlock things is very slow and they really want you to buy that season pass!\u00a0 Plus the game froze up on me a few times and the text is too small to read, even on the iPad!\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine how people can read it on a phone!\u00a0 But if you liked the original game, you may want to check this one out as well.\u00a0 Can\u2019t hurt, since it’s free.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Unless you just object to slicing fruit in half and seeing juice splatter on the screen.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and there are interesting fruit facts after every game, so it\u2019s kind of educational, too.\u00a0 Parental supervision is highly recommended for the in-game ads and purchases, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it may not have movies like Angry Birds, or TV commercials like Candy Crush, Fruit Ninja is still one of the most popular early mobile games.\u00a0 You might\u2019ve even had it for free pre-installed on your first smart phone!\u00a0 I think it was one of the first mobile games I saw at PAX, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20900,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions\/20900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}