If you’ve spent countless hours touching your screen in whatever new slice and dice game you’re playing, chances are, you owe this skill to Fruit Ninja. The mobile game which came out in 2010 helped change the way we interact with games on our smartphones and tablets. Now, after four years, it is being revamped from the ground up and it’s not just the Fruit Ninja that you sliced through before.
The game has been rebuilt from the ground up, and aside from the Classic and Zen mode that we’re used to, the Arcade mode now takes center stage and it will have you furiously slicing your screen for endless hours again. You now have new characters, Katsuro and Mari from the, well, fruity world of Fruitasia to join Sensei, Gutsu and Truffles. They will be training you to become the ultimate fruit slicer, maybe in preparation for a fantastic career in the supermarket, slicing fruits. The ultimate object of the game is still to slice fruits and not slice bombs, but the major update has added a few surprises as well.
All the blades and dojos are there not just for simply slicing fruits but will affect the gameplay as well with their new powers. The upgrades also have an effect and are not just cosmetic anymore. You can create harmless bombs, add points to combos and there is now also a powerup boost system. There are also new characters that pop up and of course, you have to avoid slicing them to smithereens. And if you want to try to get high-scoring combos like a ten-fruit Great Wave or something, you can now mix and match your gear to be able to pull these off.
Fruit Ninja 2.0 is now available for update in the Google Play Store. If you already uninstalled it previously and would like to start playing again with the updated version, you can download it for free or get the paid version at just $0.99.
Forget this update if you have the paid version. They only updated the free version. So, kiss all the achievements you’ve made with the paid version, you won’t have them for the free version. Bad move, Halfbaked.