Gobliins 2 iinvades iiPhones
Gobliins 2, the sequel to Gobliiins and prequel to Goblins 3, was originally released byCoktel Vision back in 1992. It was unsurprisingly brilliant, what with its unique mix of adventure and puzzle mechanics, its excellent graphics, its wacky humour, its demented plot and its two lovely controllable characters. Actually, better have a look at thisGobliins 2 review courtesy of Adventure Classic Gaming. Happily, you can now playGobliins 2 on your trusty iPhone and/or iPod Touch thanks to the retro-loving people atDotEmu. Here's the Gobliins 2 link. Oh, and it's dirt cheap too!
Sword & Sorcery released
Now that the cunningly named iPad 2 has been released with a decent price-tag and beautiful, indie darling Sword & Sorcery has finally hit the App Store, it does actually seem that grabbing Apple's tablet might just make sense. Yes, even for dedicated gamers. Sword & Sorcery, you see, is an audio-visually brilliant fantasy offering, that has players swing stylized swords while solving musical puzzles and exploring a mythic realm. Here's the thing's official site. Oh, and what follows is the game's trailer:
Five Lovely Indie iPad Games
iOS LANDLUBBERS
Discovered via the ever-excellent Retro Remakes, Landlubbers is a fun, retro-esque and incredibly cheap offering for your iPhone, iPod and iPad. Oh, and if you haven't noticed it yet, it does sport some pretty amazing, Game & Watch inspired visuals too.Have a go.
It's the Free-App Hero!
Apple's App Store is indeed thriving with tons of free, freeware. lite and freemium apps, that are there to rob you of your most sacred free time and in the later cases of your money. What's more, many new ones are released each and every day, whereas more than a few are, well, quite frankly shit. Enter Free-App Hero; the app that monitors, rates and selects the best free apps available. And, yes, you can actually trust the thing, for the man responsible for Free-App Hero is none other than legendary game journalist Rev. Stuart Campbell of Retro Gamer, Edge, Amiga Format, PC Gamer, PC Zone, Sega Power and Your Sinclair fame. You can find out more about this fantastic app here or even try it's pretty amazing and actually freeware Cheapskate Edition.
It's PongVaders Max!
The excellent and quite demented co-op game that calls itself PongVaders Max has gotten itself updated and now also supports iPads, while featuring some brand new bosses by the game's artists (that would be auntie pixelante). The game is available for free for both iPhone and iPad. Grab it. You'll thank me.
Pokémon Mini emulator
The Pokémon mini was the smallest and possibly quirkiest handheld console Nintendo ever released. Now, as the thing is a relatively expensive rarity, the best way to see what the fuss was all about would be grabbing the pretty excellent and suitably freeware pokemini emulator. It runs perfectly on the Wiz, but their are also ports for the PSP and Nintendo DS.
BallFallDown Deluxe (iPad)
I don't have an iPad (let alone an iPad 2), but BallFallDown Deluxe does sound like a most brilliant idea: an open ended-digital toy with smart physics and an Incredible Machine mentality for less than a dollar (while it's on sale). Have a look at the trailer:
Tiny Wings - a tiny review
If you own an iPhone, chances are you have either downloaded or -at the very least- heard of Tiny Wings. It has after all been topping charts worldwide for quite some time now, and seems to be evolving into a gaming phenomenon that might just reach Angry Birds proportions. Then again, it is deeply inspired by the success of Angry Birds, what with its feathered protagonist, cute graphics and simple, derivative gameplay.
Is it any good though? Well, chances are the people that enjoy simple -simplistic even- easy to learn, easy to master games will probably love it and be willing to spend $0.99 to grab a copy. Its one button mechanics, Mordillo-esque graphics, randomized -well, in a most basic fashion- levels, polished feel and decent sounds make for a rather appealing if shallow offering. Just tap the screen to slide down the hills or hasten the tiny wings' bird descent and try to pick up speed. Oh, and do try to reach each level's end before the sun rises. That's all really.
Also that's why I simply just can't get into the game. Granted, it's all very relaxing and cute, but after a while, and I do mean after 10 or so minutes, everything gets quite boring. All you'll need to master it are those few minutes. Tiny Wings is, in a nutshell, far too shallow, far too monotonous and far too easy for me to enjoy, let alone keep me glued to the screen... You can still find out more about it and grab a copy here. Then again the iPhone has so many brilliant, original games, I'd advise against downloadingTiny Wings.
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