The old style brick breaking games are a classic for a variety of reasons. Fun power-ups, frantic and fluid gameplay and lots of levels - many of which are visually appealing - stand as some of the most popular reasons to play titles like Breakout or Arkanoid. Really, the formula tends to be somewhat easy to emulate, though the somewhat shallow, repetitious nature of the gameplay keeps this from being a style of game we see very often. When BrickBlast U! was announced for the Wii U, I was hopeful that it would at least pull off the necessary things that made those other games classic time-wasters. Unfortunately in the end, BrickBlast U simply serves to waste your time.
