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Tiki Toss 3D

jmcclain0129 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:07:55 +0000

Developed by Mellow Militia, Tiki Toss 3D is an exciting new app available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. Kick back and relax, watch the surf, enjoy the music. It’s time for some Tiki Toss 3D!

Gameplay is simple and fun! Swipe to swing the ring and hook a ringer on the tiki board! Tiki Toss puts you in an immersive beachside scene complete with tons of details from perfect surf and chirping seabirds to a full tiki bar and fresh island music!

This relaxing beachside game is a digital rendition of the classic island hook-and-ring game. Complete with 3D graphics, the addictive game-play provides a ton of fun, while tempting your competitive nature. With score sharing and 3 different gameplay modes you can check out global leaderboards whether you’re Amateur or Pro. You can even earn score multipliers and “double down” on your current score in Arcade mode! Best experienced with headphones, Tiki Toss 3D features full length tracks by popular island artists and sound effects that keep the player engaged.

Visually striking scenery, cheering friends and the calming rumble of breaking surf combine to offer an element of escape while enjoying casual gaming competition.

Get ready to mellow out and spend the day soaking up the sun, beachside. Let Tiki Toss 3D transport you to the islands today!

IMMERSIVE 3D ATMOSPHERE
Combines striking scenery, cheering friends and the relaxing rumble of breaking surf, and even a tiki bar.

FUN ANIMATIONS
True-to-live swing and rope animations, rolling waves, surfing and a gentile island breeze

3 GAMEPLAY MODES
Best of Ten: See how many ringers you can score out of 10 tosses.
Session: No toss limit so try to get a run of ringers.
Arcade: Earn extra tosses, score multipliers, and even bet all your points on a single toss if you’re feeling skillful!

NEW AND POPULAR MUSIC
Features awesome full length reggae and bossa tracks with available in-app purchase links

SKILL BUILIDING
Go Pro for the ultra-realisic game.

8GB+ iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone 3G/S/4 running iOS 3.0+

Flingy

Ryan Johnson — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:40:22 +0000

Aptly named Flingy, the new climber game by Cogniflame Pty Ltd is a love story that uses physics and momentum to propel the plot. In this game Mrs. Flingy has been abducted and placed high atop a seemingly insurmountable climb. To rescue Mrs. Flingy you’ve got to ascend vertically using only your rockets, grapple, and momentum.

Unlike other endless climbers where you automatically ascend upward or have the ability to bounce and leap, Flingy requires you to use a grapple to cling and fling yourself from sphere to sphere in order to make progress. This is no easy task. To invoke your grapple all you have to do is touch the screen. Touch on a specific sphere to connect to it and touch anywhere on the screen to let go. When you clamp on to a sphere you twirl around. The sooner you release yourself from a sphere the more momentum you’ll carry to the next one. In order to climb high you need to perfectly time your release over and over and over again. The slightest mishap can cost you valuable momentum, rendering you to a complete stop.

There are a variety of spheres that can both help and hurt you. Some fill your jet packs with fuel, igniting your rockets, sending your spinning with tons of momentum, some expload to give you a nice boost upward, helping you skip ahead a couple of spheres, and others do nothing to assist your momentum, they just provide a temporary place to connect.

Flingy is a cute game that has potential. One thing that stands out to me is that it definitely takes some getting used to before you’ll be good at it. I find myself getting stuck quite a bit mainly because it’s really easy to have your momentum stopped if you connect to a sphere wrong, and if you connect to a sphere that doesn’t provide momentum then you’re pretty much toast. If I could change anything about the game it’d be to energize it a bit with additional momentum boosters, and perhaps a faster pace of play. I like the overall idea of the game, and the challenge it presents, but at times it seems a little bit frustrating because of how easy it is to get stuck and how there really isn’t much you can do to get unstuck aside from falling to your doom.

Pros:

Challenging, pretty fun once you get the hang of it
Can be pretty addicting at times

Cons:

Is pretty easy to get yourself stuck
Could use some additional bonuses and a faster more engaging pace of play

Version Reviewed: 1.1

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iOS 3.0 or later

Prince Of Dragon

Ryan Johnson — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:16:45 +0000

The Dark Lord has given the land of Babylon a proverbial FU, taking rule over the land and spreading pain, suffering, and darkness to a once happy people. You are the Prince Of Dragon, the only one that can harness the power of a once untamed beast to overthrow the Dark Lord’s reign and to restore Babylon back to greatness.

Created by Chai Studio, Prince Of Dragon is a non-stop 2D shooter with continuous automatic fire and side-to-side up-down game-play. To defeat the evil Dark Lord you’ve got to bob and weave between enemy fire, destroy most enemies in your path, collect bonuses delivered by a fairy, and eliminate bosses. Your character, the Prince Of Dragon, fire’s his weaponry endlessly with no effort required on your part. You can earn three bonus powers that make conquering enemies much easier. You can shoot off a burst of flames that eliminates anything in it’s path with a single shot (except for bosses), a shield which does the obvious, and dragon power that unleashes a barrage of fire and blasts that inflict major pain on your enemies. Aside from unleashing the occasional bonus power, the only thing you need to worry about while playing is navigating the Prince Of Dragon so he can more easily kill enemies and avoiding taking too much damage. Seeing that the most important aspect of the game is precision control this has to mean that the game controls are flawless doesn’t it?

I liked most aspects of Prince Of Dragon. I love 2D shooters, who doesn’t? But there were two critical aspects of this game that I didn’t like. The game controls are very erratic, making precision control a near impossibility, and the game itself is too easy. Why is it too easy? Well, I beat it in about 20 minutes.

So what’s with the game controls? Well, it uses a floating circular touchpad that shows up anywhere you touch on the screen. This sounds perfect because being able to invoke the controls anywhere on the screen helps you avoid covering up critical parts of the gaming surface as you play, unfortunately I found that way too often I’d be trying to direct the Prince Of Dragon one direction as he shot forward in the completely opposite direction, or didn’t move at all. The developers appeared to have offset this by making the game easier. As mentioned, I was able to play straight through to the end of the game in a single sitting. You can take damage over and over and you don’t miss a beat.

If the game controls get updated so they’re more precise and the difficulty of the game is increased it’d go a long way to upping my rating. I’d love this game if it had more levels, was harder, and really demanded strong gaming skills to conquer. The graphics, sounds, and so forth are definitely good enough, but the rest of the game needs some tweaking.

Pros:

Good graphics
Fun game-play

Cons:

Game controls need some major work, very imprecise
Currently too easy, I beat it in 20 minutes

Version Reviewed: 1.0

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iOS 3.1.2 or later

Cut It Up!

Ryan Johnson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:00:44 +0000

Be prepared to have lots of fun and be 100% frustrated at the same time! Cut It Up! is a strategic slicer where balls bounce erratically inside a variety of oddly designed shapes. Using your finger like a razor you must surgically whittle shapes down to size in as few a slices as possible without cutting any of the bouncing balls. It starts out as innocent as child’s play, but quickly ramps up into an enjoyable stress inducing head scratcher.

Cut It Up! is one of Apalon apps newest editions. First off I must warn you, this game is extremely addictive. Think of it like a puzzle that keeps on changing. Every time you take a slice out of a shape the objects within react differently. As the shape gets smaller and smaller the balls bounce faster and faster and the window of time you have to safely trim the shape shrinks dramatically. Your goal in the game is to slice the shape until the slice meter passes the target rope. The fewer slices it takes you to do this the better the medal you’re awarded with (gold, silver, bronze).

Cut It Up! consists of two episodes, each consisting of 20 levels. Each level presents you with a totally different shape and challenge. You can trim every aspect of the shape excluding white walls. As you can figure, the further you advance the more odd shapes and white walls you’re presented with. I can say for sure that you’ll come across many shapes that’ll have your number, and will take you several (many) attempts before you figure out how to defeat them.

Overall Cut It Up! is a really fun game. I wasn’t sure how I’d like it at first but it’s curiously challenging and fun. It has great replayability because it’s hard to let levels get the better of you. I’ve gotten caught up on several levels that frustrated me, but seem to keep going back for more punishment. Cut It Up! is fast paced so you can squeeze in a game here and there even if you only have a minute or two to spare. If you like puzzles and strategy games you should check this one out.

Pros:

Fun, fast paced, and both addictive and frustrating
Great time killer
Levels are challenging, has plenty of replayability

Cons:

Nothing major, a global leaderboard would be nice

Version Reviewed: 1.1

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later

100 Nazi Scalps

Ryan Johnson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:39:12 +0000

Grab your baseball bat, sharpen your knife, and bring plenty of ammo because we’re going to go scalp some Nazis! 100 Nazi Scalps seems heavily inspired by Brad Pitt’s character Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the movie Inglorious Basterds. If you’ve seen the movie you’ll know that Lt. Raine is all about killing some Nazis, and by any means necessary. In the movie knives, bats, and guns are used to instill fear and to ultimately turn the tide on the oppressive regime. 100 Nazi Scalps is essentially the same, except you don’t use bats and knives to intimidate, you use them to bash and rip off some scalps!

Created by Apalon, 100 Nazi Scalps is a 2D platformer with limited side-to-side movement, a fair assortment of World War II weaponry, and simple yet fairly difficult game-play. Enemies attack from in-front and behind, kneeling helps to avoid damaging gunfire but doesn’t protect you from incoming grenades. Essentially you need to scurry forward and backward rattling off as much gunfire as you can, kneeling to limit damage, and scalping any enemies that fall to their knees. Occasionally enemies will drop more powerful weapons so it’s important to snatch them up when you can.

If you want to do well in this game the most critical thing to master is toggling between and using weapons. Personally I found the weapons buttons to be very awkward to use. There are four buttons lined up horizontally, two that let you toggle from weapon to weapon and two that let you use the weapons. Not sure why they developer chose to set it up this way, but it’s something I would change as soon as possible. It took me several tries before I figured out how to use them properly. Essentially you need to swipe down across the far left buttons to switch between the bat and knife, and to change guns, and need to tap on the right buttons to use the weapons. The bat and knife don’t actually work until you’re literally in the face of enemies which seems a bit strange to me. For a while there I thought they didn’t actually work.

Once you get used to the weapons setup, which will will take a little practice, the game is pretty fun. I like the sounds and the bloodiness of the game. A fair amount of tissue matter and guts are displayed when you shoot people. The more powerful the gun the more impressive the result. Grenades are a favorite of mine as they make bodies explode into multiple piles of hamburger. I’d have to say the overall fun-factor of the game is only so-so. Mainly because you’re range of motion is very limited, and the fact that you can’t bust out your knife and bat until you’re up in the enemies grill kinda sucks. I wish you could jump around, throw punches, chuck knives if you want to, smash some skulls from further away than two inches, stuff like that. I’m a fan of the overall theme, love myself a good 2D arcade thriller, but unfortunately 100 Nazi Scalps as it stands today, doesn’t quite live up to it’s full potential.

Pros:

Fair amount of blood and guts
Great theme, love killing and scalping Nazis
Reasonable value for the price

Cons:

Weapons buttons are awkward and annoying; needs improvement
Only 6 levels of game-play
Challenging for what it is, but concept is too simple, needs more complexity

Version Reviewed: 1.07

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iOS 2.2.1 or later

Flight Doodle

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:54:59 +0000

Cut the ropes, soar into the sky, and begin your endless ascent into the realm of global leaderboard dominance in the very addictive, well put together, Flight Doodle! No springs, no bouncing, no aliens, no platforms, in this game you hop on board your flying apparatus and charge upward in skies filled with crash inducing diddies. Tacks, winds, airplanes, and more threaten your advance. Mastery of tilt and speed are required for dominance.

Created by Eyedip LLC, the makers of the popular Pocket Devil game, Flight Doodle is just another addition to the immensely crowded assortment of doodle themed games available in the iTunes App Store. The object of the game is to fly your balloon (or whatever else you’re flying) further than anybody else. As you’d expect there are a variety of things to prevent you from doing so, namely storm clouds, prevailing winds, falling tacks, airplanes, and floating chunks of land. Avoiding these is a full-time job. Thankfully there are several bonusses you can earn and collect along the way. If you see stars make sure to grab them because they give you a nice skip ahead. In addition you can earn the ability to shrink yourself so it’s easier to avoid stuff, turn on a shield so nothing can hurt you, and can fire bullets to free up some space. Bullets are kind of a double edged sword though because if you miss your target not only do you have to avoid hitting your target but the bullet loses momentum and starts falling back toward you.

There’s a nice selection flying apparatuses to choose from in the game. There’s multiple balloons, light bulbs, snow globes, and more. Each of which you can further customize by adding your own color and designs, which is a nice added touch. To navigate your balloon (or whatever you’ve chosen) you simply tilt your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from side-to-side. There are a handful of speed related controls at your disposal to help you advance faster and avoid obstacles more efficiently. There are buttons for speeding up and slowing down at will, and a button that abruptly boosts you up to the top of the screen. I found the speed up button to be pretty handy, and if you time it just right the boost button may be able to get you out of a jam. The boost button shoots you straight to the top of the screen, so if you find yourself in a situation where you need to get out of dodge quick you should probably press it.

Overall I was impressed with the quality of the game. I felt like pretty much every aspect of it was extremely well done. The imagery, menus, game-play, and replayability are all excellent for a doodle themed game. The most critical part of the game to master is the tilt controls. Finding the sensitivity setting that bets suits you is key. It can be tricky at times because objects come at you pretty quickly and leave minimal room for error, but because you’re flying there’s a little of over-steer with every movement. The best way I found to combat the over-steer is to keep the pedal to the medal by holding down the Speed Up button. There’s pluses and minuses to doing this, but for me it seems to work well. Typically Flight Doodle is $0.99 which is definitely a decent price for what you get. I have to mention though that the app is currently free, which was originally supposed to just be a one day promotion, but it appears to have stuck around for a few days so if you don’t already have it I recommend snagging it while it’s on the house!

Pros:

Good graphics, well designed and developed
Nice assortment of options and customizability
Pretty addictive, decent replayability

Cons:

Little bit of over-steer makes it a bit tricky at times, but it’s a flying game so I think that’s to be expected

Version Reviewed: 4.40

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Tetrapped

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:34:46 +0000

If you’re looking to flex your brain muscles then Tetrapped is a game you should check out. In this game you’ve got 6 x 6, 7 x 7, and 8 x 8 board puzzles filled with tetromino pieces. Your mission, strategically slide the pieces around until you’ve fit the proper piece in shadowed area. These simple looking puzzles pack a mean punch and require the utmost concentration and a steel curtain of patience.

Created by Yorksoft, Tetrapped has a rather simple looking graphics. It’s doodle-esque theme gives the impression that the puzzles are a bit elementary. I’m a fan of strategy puzzles such as these so I cracked my knuckles and had at it. It took me a while to get in the groove, but it wasn’t long before I was ripping my way through the 6 x 6 puzzles. For beginners these puzzles can be a bit challenging, but experienced players will likely blow right through most of the 100 6 x 6 puzzles in 45 minutes to an hour.

Obviously the difficulty increases as the size of the puzzles increase. 7 x7′s aren’t too bad, 8 x 8′s are a bit trickier. Altogether there are 300 puzzles to solve, 100 for each grid size. I’ve gotten through a bunch of the puzzles so far, but still have over 100 left to solve. Tetrapped easily provides ultra experienced puzzle solvers with 3-4 hours worth of continuous and fairly intense puzzle solving goodness. Less experienced puzzle solvers could easily get 40 or more hours worth of brain teasing enjoyment out of this app. Given it’s $0.99 price point that’s good value.

Overall I enjoyed Tetrapped. I’m always game for a good puzzle solver. I don’t feel like Tetrapped is all that unique of a puzzler. I’ve played many that feel very similar, have better options and effects, and more puzzles. However, those other games typically are a bit more expensive, falling somewhere in the $1.99 and up realm. For what you get I feel like Tetrapped offers a nice amount of game-play, respectable graphics and sounds, and will without a doubt keep many of you busy and frustrated for many hours at a time.

Pros:

Game-play is challenging for intermediate and novice puzzle solvers
Offers 300 levels in 6 x6, 7 x 7, and 8 x 8 grids
Good replayability, offers many hours of game-play

Cons:

Game is not unique, there are many other similar puzzle games
No social network sharing

Version Reviewed: 1.0.1

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Tomb Rush

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:40:36 +0000

In the action puzzler Tomb Rush the pharaoh’s tomb is under attack by a relentless swarm of monsters and it’s your job to protect the pharaoh’s remains at all costs. Your only means of defense is to kill anything and everything in site, but the problem is the weaponry at your disposal is limited. Starting with as little as a wall mounted crossbow you must pluck monsters with precision shots. Your propensity to kill determines the length of your game and the number of defense mechanisms at your disposal. Strategy, timing, and coordination are key to earning big points and successfully protecting the tomb.

Created by Volcano Computer Tech Co., Tomb Rush is an action puzzler that at first may seem a bit blah, but after you get the hang of it quickly becomes a very fun to play and tough to put down game. The entire game takes place inside of the pharaoh’s tomb. A flood of one-track minded portly cavemen charge into the tomb, in no particular order, in an attempt to seize and conquer the tomb. You can unlock up to 7 “powerful properties”, like trap doors, candles that function as flame throwers, spring loaded platforms, lightening esque bolts of energy, and more to defend the tomb. As mentioned you start with only a crossbow, but quickly earn new properties based on number of kills. When you see a hovering key pop up you’ll want to touch it ASAP as it activates a new property.

The more properties you earn the better. They essentially serve as back up defenses for when monsters slip through you first, second, third, etc. lines of defense. When monsters approach just touch any of your properties to use them. Some take longer to “reload” than others so you want to make sure you time their use perfectly. The crossbow and the spring board fire pretty rapidly, but the trapdoor and candle take a while to reload and if you set them off too early the monsters will blow right past them unscathed. A great fall back weapon is the pharaoh power. If you touch the pharoah and then swipe your finger across the screen it sends a bolt of lightening jutting toward your target. It takes a while to use this one though so you pretty much only want to use it as a last resort.

Tomb Rush is a super simple concept that somehow became ultra addictive the more you play it. At first I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it because I played it a half a dozen times or so and thought to myself the game was kinda boring. But apparently that’s only because I stunk at it. Once I got the hang of it and started unlocking more and more weapons and defenses and was mowing down wave after wave of monsters I thought to myself this game is pretty sweet! After getting on a roll and unveiling a hard to kill boss that ushered in newer and uglier monsters I was hooked!

Tomb Rush builds on itself as you play and demands 100% attention to detail and precision timing. Monsters come at you straight on in the early stages of the game, but eventually they come at you from multiple angles. Having the ability to defend against waves of enemies from multiple angles for sustained periods of time is key to scoring big. Once you get to that point in the game it’s extremely hard to put down. If you enjoy simpler game concepts that are challenging and you can turn to at a moments notice from some instant gratification, then you’ll really enjoy Tomb Rush.

Pros:

Offers good replayability; really addictive once you give it some time
Great game for both children and adults
Games can last seconds to minutes depending on skill level; great time waster

Cons:

No onine global leaderboard or social media integration

Version Reviewed: 1.0

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later

Free iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Promo Codes for Cut Him Up!

Ryan Johnson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:04:04 +0000

Wow, get the mop and bucket out cause this games going to leave a bloody mess all over your iPhone! Cut Him Up! is a slicingly good game filled with blood galore. Gear up for a bloody adventure where you slay masked surgeons, guards and failed experiments. Every successful battle helps to piece together the sinister yet intriguing story. This game isn’t for the faint of heart. Check out the video of you dare!

Iskandar Inc was kind enough to provide us with free promo codes for Cut Him Up! If you snag a code please make sure to provide an honest iTunes review of your experience with the app as a thank you to the developer. Thanks and enjoy!

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Croak!

Ryan Johnson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:16:43 +0000

The life of a tree frog seems like utter bliss. All you’ve gotta do is climb trees, spit out some ribbits here and there, and snag unsuspecting insects to fatten your belly right? Wrong! When you play Croak! the life of a tree frog seems like utter chaos. Try bobbing and weaving around striking venomous snakes, sticky tongued frog leg loving chameleons, and nimble lemurs as you fire your tongue at tasty winged tidbits. It’s no simple task and certainly not The Life of Riley.

Created by Rather Odd Computing, Croak! reminds me a lot of Sticky Licky, except with a number of twists that make it a bit more interesting and difficult. Typically in games like this you just fire off a sticky tongue and real in insect after insect, while trying to avoid things like bees and other prickly buggers. Well, in Croak! you’ve got to catch food, but you need to avoid random frog eating predators that appear docile and then strike when you least expect it. To avoid getting eaten you must preemptively tilt your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad to hop your frog out of the way. The further you get in the game the more sly and unpredictable the frog eaters become.

If you’re a fan of 2D arcade games then you’re going to enjoy Croak! The challenge within the game leans less toward the difficulty of capturing the insects and more toward remaining aware of the imminent strike from a predator and you’re ability to swiftly avoid their attack while remaining efficient at capturing your dinner. The quicker you can master the multi-tasking nature of the game the further you’ll advance. As you become better you’ll unlock more and more themes, tree frog species, dinner options, and blood thirsty predators.

After a few goes with Croak! it was clear to me that I’ve got to put in a little more practice before I can sit atop the Open Feint global leaderboard. The game comes across as being really easy until you’ve waded a few levels deep, after that it begins to bear teeth. I zoomed through the first eight levels in a matter of minutes, but soon after hit a bit of a snag. My three lives dissapeard in the blink of an eye as it seemed the snake had figured out my every move. I elected to adopt a float like a butterfly method, keeping my frog constantly on the move. This worked for a few more levels, but after a while it mattered not. The snake operates under a cloak of unpredictability and strikes swiftly. Once you’ve reached a certain point in the game luck is out the door and you’ve really got to stay focused on both dinner and the snake, timing your every move perfectly in order to earn points and stay alive at the same time.

Overall Croak! is a very fun arcade style game. The first half a dozen or so levels feel a bit mundane, but after that you’ve really gotta step up your game. It’s fast paced and great for picking up and killing short windows of time. The graphics and sounds are decent and the game becomes quite addictive once you’ve unlocked a few frogs, predators, and themes. It’s definitely a great value for the $0.99 price point and well worth the download.

Pros:

Lots of levels, insects, predators, and frogs
Addictive, fast paced, and good replayability
Good value for the price

Cons:

Starts out a bit easy, need to get 8 or more levels deep for it to get interesting
Feels a bit repetitive over time, playing in small bursts is key