Arkanoid – Eternal Battle PS5 Review. feels like an overdue attempt to bring the titular 80s block-busting arcade game into the hands of contemporary gamers and like most retro revamps, Eternal Battle brings a fancy new feature to the table in order to underscore its relevancy. That new feature, if you haven’t guessed already, is a lean into the Battle Royale genre, allowing players to play against multiple others en route to a last man (or slider, really) standing scenario. How does the overall package fare though?

Arkanoid – Eternal Battle PS5 Review

An Attractive Re-Release Of An 80s Arcade Classic That Needs More Meat On Its Bones

Developed by retro specialists pastagames (who brought us the underrated Pix the Cat and Pang Adventures), Arkanoid – Eternal Battle looks to maintain the essence of the classic arcade game and largely succeeds in doing so. For the uninitated, the basic concept of Arkanoid is wonderfully straightforward.

Viewed from a top down perspective you have a Pong style paddle which is locked to the bottom of the screen with the goal simply being to ‘bat’ a projectile ball up the screen and into the blocks until there are none left, allowing you to move onto the next stage. Spicing up the concept a tad are the aliens floating around the screen that can wreck your paddle if they make contact with it, blocks that take multiple hits to destroy and numerous power ups that can enlarge the size of the paddle, provide multiple balls and other…