ANTONBLAST Smash first, ask never

The hammer is the whole point. Walls, crates, floors, enemies: nearly everything in a level can be flattened, and the game rewards you for flattening all of it. Chain dashes into hammer bounces, ricochet off colorful blocks for extra air, and keep the momentum going until the screen is mostly explosions and you are hunting for yourself in the debris.

It looks chaotic, and it is, but progress takes some thought. Barreling through with every button held down gets you killed and leaves the hidden paths unopened. The sweet spot is reading a room fast, picking your line, and then committing to it at full speed. When it clicks, a level turns into one long, unbroken act of demolition.

Every level follows the same three-step ritual: set Brulo's Detonators, find the hidden Spirit, and get out before Happy Hour ends. That last part is the twist. Once the timer starts, the level changes under you and you race back through it in reverse, hammer swinging, while the clock eats your margin.

It gives each stage a second half that plays nothing like the first: careful exploration on the way in, pure panic on the way out. Between runs there are par times to chase, a score to push higher, and extra modes like Time Trial and Combo Chain that reframe the same stages. Beating a level once is the tutorial for beating it well.