

Quickplay is the meat and drink of Ninja Kinect 2 and brings the standard Classic mode (miss 3 fruit or hit a bomb and it’s game over), Zen mode (90 seconds of play with no powerups or bombs…just basic old score building required!) and Arcade mode (60 seconds to chop as much fruit as possible) to all gamers. Halfbrick and Hibernum can’t be faulted for the amount of gameplay options on offer though. It’s simple to use with very little gaming experience needed, but neither the implementation or indeed the core game gleams, as five years after first experiencing the craziness of fruit slashing, the enthusiasm and wow factor has near on completely worn off. With recent motion controlled games faring supremely well (take a look at Fantasia: Music Evolved for the near on perfect Kinect title), Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 pales into the background when compared to other Kinect titles.

With the power of Kinect for Xbox One, and the increased precision that comes with that, the slight issue that the previous game had on the less refined Xbox 360 is surely all but overcome. Slicing and dicing is the name of the game, with the more fruit hit, the bigger the combos gained and the gathering of the highest score you can being the main objectives of everything you do.

The Blueberry Moon Festival lets you take your ninja skills to a whole new level throughout the classic Quickplay mode, across some new ones set up specifically for the Festival or up against your friends in the 2-4 player multiplayer that is on offer. Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 does exactly what it says on the tin.
