I'm going to try and get my money back, having been tricked into buying this thing. This thing seems to have been designed by an AI with the barest understanding of what constitutes a game. Either that or it was a level one exercise in graphics programming at a coding institute in an East Asian country. It really is simply a few basic programming elements slapped haphazardly together … and that's it.
Basically you tap left and right to guide a first-person perspective "runner" down platforms in a 3D monochrome maze as an 8-bit theme, around five notes booping up and down a major scale, loops in the background and a voice narrates nonsense phrases: "Your shoes are shiny. Now is not the time for your inner fight. I am not with you." Like that. The eye-hurting monochrome colors change randomly. There are a few random objects floating in space between the platforms: woman heads, Ben Franklin heads, arms, buildings. They serve no purpose. The screen glitches randomly. Sometimes your runner runs into a cube that chimes and changes the monochrome background once more. If you fall off the platform you start over. As you progress down the maze the runner's speed increases, and the runner's base starting speed also increases a little each time you are "killed" and restart, unless you force quit the game and restart the app entirely to bring your runner back to the beginning base speed … so probably the game designers gain some advantage every time a player logs out of Game Center and logs back in again, maybe something involving ranking. Anyhow, there are no clues to the mazes, and most of the challenge of running through them involves poor control response or being visually unable to see what's happening, either by having the screen blocked by glitches or by being blinded by a particularly bright monochrome background, lime on canary, for example, or orange against tangerine. Finishing a level brings up a new one that's slightly different from the last, for no particular reason, as there is no storyline, no plot, no interaction other than tapping left and right and hoping the runner responds, and the random objects don't change, they just cycle.
Seriously, this is a coding exercise someone decided to sell as an overpriced app. Imagine you were demonstrating 3D technology for the first time, and you just looped visuals of a first-person perspective going over a set of ramps, turning left and right around an Atari 2600 representation of a city comprising nine office blocks, three woman heads, a Ben Franklin head and seven up-stretched arms. To demonstrate voice synthesis you program in some phrases from a phrase book: "Your shoes are shiny. The city is alive tonight." Because you're limited to 8-bit color for this 101 class exercise you choose monochromes of lime green against emerald green. And that's it.
But to drum up excitement you shell out one eighth of a Bitcoin to bored Russian youths on whatever the current version of Hansa Market is to buy 250 good reviews from them. And there you have the game's gameplay and business model. …Enjoy?
Seriously, don't buy this thing. Just don't. Get a level-1 programming book and code in the first exercise of the first page of the first chapter into Eclipse yourself and you will get pretty much the same result, for cheaper, and you'll have learned a new skill to boot. But don't reward the lazy failing student who cribbed this from a beginner's guide to 8-bit color and 3D vector plane graphics.
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