Suika Recreation is a sport about fruit. It’s additionally one of the crucial addictive, but infuriating issues I’ve ever skilled.

Suika Recreation (aka “Watermelon Recreation”) on the Nintendo Swap is a captivating, easy affair. You begin with a field into which you might be instructed to drop numerous fruits. When two fruits of the identical sort contact, they merge collectively into an even bigger fruit, producing factors. The aim is to merge as many fruits as you may to finally create the most important fruit: a watermelon.

It seems like Suika Recreation ought to be a enjoyable and enjoyable expertise. The display is stuffed with colourful fruit with little faces on them. The music is bouncy, and there are satisfying little popping noises when fruits merge collectively. The gameplay is straightforward. So why do I really feel like throwing my Swap in opposition to a wall? 

A part of the sport is luck-based. The fruits you drop into the field are random. You really want a grape, however the sport retains supplying you with oranges? Powerful luck. The physics of how the fruits work together could be fairly unpredictable too. They bounce and roll round, ending up precisely the place you don’t need them to be. When a merge occurs, it typically triggers a cascade of different merges, shuffling across the complete contents of your field. That is extraordinarily satisfying to observe, however can even lead to unlucky fruit placement relying on how issues settle.

Look. Take a look at this. If the 2 melons above would simply shut the tiny hole between them, they might merge right into a watermelon. However they don’t. I piled extra fruit on both aspect of them to attempt to wedge them collectively, however that plan failed and resulted in a sport over.

Returning to the title display reveals me the titular watermelon. It winks at me. Mocks me. “Yet another attempt,” I mutter to myself. It’s three within the morning. I’ve mentioned the very same phrase eight occasions already.

I’m very a lot conscious that my frustration is completely a ability challenge. On the finish of the day, I’m a well-adjusted grownup able to emotional regulation and I can’t throw my Swap round. I’ll, nonetheless, commit violence in opposition to a melon the subsequent time I’m going looking for groceries.

Bitter grapes apart, I can see why Suika Recreation has been gaining traction on the web. It has a enjoyable, addicting gameplay loop with very low stakes. Should you’d wish to attempt Suika Recreation your self, it’s at present obtainable on the Swap eShop for $2.99. There’s additionally a Halloween replace that provides a spooky background and turns all watermelons into jack-o-lanterns. 

Should you do attempt Suika Recreation out for your self, I hope your endeavors are fruitful. Could your apples at all times fall proper the place you want them to.