90% of this game is waiting for your meandering ball to eventually win the angle lottery and hit one of the last few bricks (repeat multiple times in every stage) unless you won the other simultaneously-occurring lottery of getting a Laser powerup (which is frequently useless as certain stages have smugly placed a fortress of unbreakable bricks in front of the bricks you need to hit).
I don't need electronic squash to be another loud reminder of life's unfairness dirty tricks