Breakbar RPG
is an Adobe Flash video game by Retimer released in 2011. It's a traditional game of Breakout with 16 levels, only bricks have HP and you level up as you break them, letting you do so with fewer hits. There are also permanent upgrades which can be bought with gold dropped from them and there are two boss fights.
This game provides examples of:
- Absurdly High Level Cap: You can beat the game reasonably in the mid 50s in terms of level, but high score tables have shown that people reached a much higher level than that. As of 2020, the highest is 218, which due to each level up requiring (x-1)^3 EXP, would need over 10000000 EXP to go from lv. 217 to 218.
- Breaking Out: The game has you breaking bars with a paddle as usual, though there are things like level ups and later bars having more HP to spice things up.
- Hard Levels, Easy Bosses: The levels have you break you lots of HP worth of bricks, thousands or tens of thousands usually. The first boss has 500 HP and the second has 4*500 HP, with the only thing that sets them apart is being able to move slowly and pitiful attacks.
- Incredibly Durable Enemies: There are bricks which seem normal but are shockingly close to indestructible, like the one in level 4 that has about 120 HP and gives two or three level ups when first destroyed.
- Low-Level Advantage: Since ghost balls are thrown in a straight line from the paddle's center, it can make it impossible to hit blocks with ghost balls that are small and on the far left/right. For this reason, having a lower level for the paddle length upgrade may be beneficial.
- Marathon Level: Level 15 is really long, fitting for a penultimate level, as it takes about 15 minutes to beat it due to consisting of a crapton of small bricks.
- Non-Standard Game Over: Normally you'd lose a level by running out of balls, in which case the game would show "You Lost Your Balls!" Quitting the level by clicking "Level Select" instead shows "Surrendered!"
- RPG Elements: What separates the game from regular Breakout is having level ups, gold, and upgrades, with bars also having HP.
- Shows Damage: Enemies turn more and more transparent as they are damaged.
- Wicked Witch: The first boss is a typical witch with skin that alternates between white and green that throws fireballs at your bar.
- You Are Already Dead: If you lose your regular ball but still have a ghost ball or a few left, if there are more lines of bricks than you have balls or if it's clear they have too much HP to be broken, face it, you've lost.
