Nervous Brickdown review at GameAlmighty.

"When I hear “paddle-and-ball” my eyes start to glaze over and my fingers tremble with dread. There must be a thousand clones of the classic Breakout on the market and with very few exceptions, they seldom add anything new to the genre. The last big advance happened years ago with Arkanoid, which introduced powerups and innovative design that pushed the genre forward, giving way to an armada of clones that soon followed. Now we have Nervous Brickdown from Arkedo, and while it doesn't represent a paradigm-shift for paddle-and-ball games, it does introduce several new ideas, wrapped in a superb presentation that elevates it above the masses, ultimately allowing it to stand tall as the definitive Breakout game for the DS (assuming the DS really needed a definitive Breakout clone)."

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