Block Kuzushi

Block Kuzushi is a retro arcade-style 3D block-breaking game. You move the paddle left and right with the mouse while physics governs the movement of the balls and objects.

Break blocks

Clear a stage by destroying all the blocks that need to be broken. Indestructible blocks and some highly durable blocks do not need to be destroyed. If a ball falls into the abyss, you lose one ball and make a mistake; the game ends when you run out of balls. A beam hit temporarily prevents you from moving the paddle but does not count as a mistake.

Blocks have different behaviors: some are durable, move when hit or from the start, speed up or split the ball, appear and disappear, become invisible until hit, or regenerate after being destroyed. Some fire beams back at the ball. Other hazards include indestructible panels that fly in from outside the screen, drones that fly around and shoot beams, and cores that produce drones and durable blocks. A boss awaits on the final stage.

Capsules

Help items can appear under various conditions. They give you an advantage, but each has a different effect:

• Multi-capsule (red): adds another ball. More balls can help break blocks, but they collide with one another and can be harder to keep in play. As long as at least one ball remains on screen, losing balls into the abyss does not count as a mistake.
• Defense Capsule (Blue): creates five defensive blocks in front of the abyss to catch falling balls and slow balls that hit them.
• Brake capsule (green): slows one ball. If several balls are in play, it affects the oldest.
• Score capsule (yellow): awards a high score. Points extend the game and add balls to your stock.

Stages and saves

Clearing specific stages unlocks a warp that lets you start from a middle stage; the unlock is saved to disk. You can also pause and choose “STOP THE GAME” to save your interrupted stage and return to the title screen. Choosing “RESUME” continues from that stage, but discards the interrupted save, resets your score to 0 and removes any stock of four or more balls. Choosing “START” also discards the interrupted save.

Settings

The interface lets you adjust the screen size, switch between windowed and full-screen display, set BGM and SE volumes, choose easy, normal or hard difficulty, and change graphic quality. Settings are saved automatically.