Fruit Ninja

Why is it so special and addicting?

Generally fruit ninja has no meaning, no story, and no purpose but there is something about it which makes it really addicting. 

1. Graphics (great background, great fruits, great blades...)

Look at those beautiful screens, it really is fun slicing those delicious fruits, and the sounds of sliced fruit make it even better. 

 2. Scoring system (especially in arcade mode)

   Scoring system is really fun, the scoring makes it fun, I  will talk about scoring in more details later. 

3.  3 game modes

    We will discuss game modes later as well. 

Game modes

    Zen mode

  Zen mode is the simplest and most calm mode, in here you only have 1 and a half minutes and only fruit will pop up,. There are no combo bonuses, bombs or life points or super power bananas, only fruit and 1:30 time.,

    Classical mode

  This mode is different, it is infinite (as long as you can stay alive ) you have 3 life points, you lose a life point every time you drop a fruit unsliced, there are also bombs and one hit and you lose the entire game. Also every 100 points if you have life points less then 3 you regenerate one.

     Arcade mode

   The most love mode. You have 1 minute to score as much as you can.  There are combos, bonuses for combos, super bananas which can freeze time, double you score for some time or get you many fruits falling from different directions. When you hit a bomb you combo streak is being gone and you are losing 10 points, in the end of the game you get a pomegranate and then based on your performance you get additional scores which then sum up and show you final score. 

Scoring system of Fruit ninja. Tips to score the most 

Have a look at some videos which scored over 900 points in arcade mode.

 932 points 

938 points

956 points

1098 points

How do you score this much?

  First of all let us define a term which we will call combo streak, combo streak is the number of consecutive combos you make. Every time you make a combo your combo streak gets increased by the value of a combo divided on 3 rounded down, in other words if you made a combo of 3 fruits you will get 1 combo streak point, if you did a combo of 6 fruit you will get a combo streak points. After receiving every 3rd combo streak point you get additional bonus, 

after 3 combos +5

after 6 combos +10 

after 9 combos +15

after 12 combos +20

after 15 combos +25 

after 18 combos +30

after 18 and more after doing every third combo you get +30 points. But the combo points can be gone if you have a long delay between doing combos so Keep on doing combos, combo is much more important than getting all the fruit sliced. 

  So, we learnt that the only way to score great points is doing consecutive combos,  and remember this, the 3 fruit combo is better than the 5 fruit combo because the remaining 2 fruit might be used for making another 3 fruit combo.

What are critical +10s ? 

We all both love and hate this, we love it because it gives us 10 points but we hate it because we don't know how this works? Well here is how, there is no way we can make it happen, it happens randomly, I tried many different things for achieving critical and here is what I tried ( below is the list which tells about how we CAN NOT get a critical)

• Hitting a fruit which is very close to a bomb.
• Hitting a fruit when it just appears on the screen (on the bottom)
• Hitting the fruit when it reached it's top
• Hitting a fruit when it is about to get out of the screen (on the bottom)
• Hitting a fruit fast or slow,
• Hitting a fruit with one touch
• Hitting a fruit in a big combo

      by Safrastyan