The game is a mouse-controlled Arkanoid clone. Arkanoid being a Breakout clone with the addition of powerups. Breakout being a game where you use a paddle to bounce a ball into bricks and break them, and if you need this explanation of Breakout or Arkanoid, you are making me feel seriously old right now. In addition to a small suite of modifiers- faster/slower ball, shorter/longer paddle, sticky paddle, extra life -some bricks drop a series of spheres that correspond to the seven Eevee evolution types. There are four stages which randomly select between a few patterns, and if you survive all four, the game offers you an Eeveelution which I suspect is based on how many spheres you've collected of each type. You only get one Pokemon, and the decision is final. Once you've picked it, it'll be waiting for you in the Dreamworld, whenever that opens.
It's not the best Arkanoid clone I ever played- the movement of the ball is kind of choppy, and in a game whose entire gameplay is keep your eye on the ball, that's a problem. Likewise, the game suffers from one of the most annoying Flash game problems of all time: cursor issues. See, your cursor is always active, but becomes invisible when it's over the playfield so you control the paddle directly. Problem being that if your cursor drifts off the top or bottom edge of the playfield you can no longer move the paddle. So annoying. I'm trying to get one of the later Eeveelutions, since I haven't had an Eevee since Gen 1, so I'm having to do this more than once. I definitely recommend a mouse over a touchpad for this, and because of some lag in the controls, my Tablet PC's stylus is right out.
Still, free Eevee, and supposedly they'll all have some kind of not-otherwise-attainable-for-this-Pokemon abilities, so it might be worth the frustration. Check it out!
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