Fluid arm slices are replaced with clumsy throwing motions that show the strings of Fruit Ninja Kinect 2. The final Festival game mode, Han’s Apple Range, is by far the weakest due to lacklustre mechanics and the ambiguity of the control scheme. This was the most interesting take on the traditional gameplay missing bamboo seeds as they fall results in bamboo shoots blocking your view until they are sliced away, a tricky task when bombs have a nasty habit of nesting within the verdure.
I found more fun in the traditional Arcade and Zen modes and Nobu’s Bamboo Strike, another new exclusive mode. Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 doesn’t stray from that formula and adds full body movement to the mix, with only so many ways you can slice fruit with your hands, Halfbrick now has you dodging spotlights and shurikens as you slice fruit in two of the four new Festival game modes.ĭucking and dodging adds an interesting element to the game but one that didn’t extend beyond novelty for me. The swipe and slice nature of Fruit Ninja translated well to motion control and placing the player silhouette in the background overcame one of the biggest hurdles to good use of the Kinect hardware: precision. Halfbrick was one of the few developers to get solid, responsive controls out of the original Kinect hardware. Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 may be the most educational game I play all year.ĭid you know that pineapples are actually hundreds of small ‘fruitlets’? How about that banana skins can be used to relieve mosquito bites? Not only does Halfbrick’s hand-to-fruit combat simulator provide you with a reasonable excuse to keep the Kinect sensor hooked up, it also educates you!
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