Leave a Review Canabalt
great
this app is great, I love the design and the music, really beautiful, its challenging and original. definetely check out the flash version on the internet though, because its always good to try what you're buying first especially because this one's quite expensive. but if you do buy this game you're supporting the people who make it and therefore are helping them make more games like these, which are so cutting edge, entertaining and beautifully designed.Show lessIzzy?!
Imperfect.
This game is good but has some key flaws. For instance, whenever the player is moving slowly, long crumbling buildings can appear that offer zero chance of escape, which is especially frustrating near the beginning when the player hasn't even had a chance to gain speed. Boxes and other obstacles are also sometimes placed in such a way as to force the player to eat dirt. Not fun. Also, at high speeds, sometimes the player has to jump before they can even see the next building, which makes survival a feat of luck. Making the screen wider would help a lot there.Show lessTubTubbaroo
Great game!
Awesome game! A few things, though. First, try putting info on what the game is actually about on the AppStore. Second, some in-game instructions might be nice. Last, the big bomb is really hard to not die on. Try giving it a bit more warning.Dog in yard
Excellent Replay Value!
At first sight, Canabalt looks like a simple game with retro graphics but it is deceptively simple. The game is played by tapping the screen to make your character jump as he runs and leaps from rooftop to rooftop in an urban skyline. Why pay for this? As many may know, many iPhone/iPod Touch games do not have much replay value. In fact, I have read several personal finance articles saying mobile applications are often a good way to save money because of how infrequently they are used after the initial purchase. Canabalt is among a small group of games that is NOT a wasteful purchase because the obstacles are randomized with each run. The graphics and play control are crisp and unique. The grayscale color palette and retro pixelated sprites is a treat for the eyes. The exciting original music and gameplay harkens back to the German, indie, cult, hit film, Run Lola Run. Best of all, this game is the perfect "bite-sized" game that doesn't try to compete with bigger licensed games from bigger development companies with extensive development staff and funding. I regret not having played the original Flash game and supporting the developer from the start and encourage every gamer, serious or casual, to try this game online to see if you're willing to drop a few dollars for the mobile version.Show lessMr. James Duffy
More is less
The game was 4 star for sheer simplicity. By updating the game and adding more "obstacles", it's made the game imbalanced. Before you had to strike a balance with speed. Go too fast and you may hit one of the small falling ships or misstime a jump into a building. Go too slow and you fall when jumping. Now they've added ships that cut a building in two, making the jump across ridiculously hard, buildings that collapse which are either too long or a poor height to jump off. The new billboard to jump onto is just asthetically unpleasant. All this game required was a variety of different backgrounds to reward you on your journey similar to sheeplauncher.Show lessOrganicKat
Latest update is a complete fail...
Firstly, they changed the gameplay without giving us the option of playing the classic original game instead.
(See Doodle Jump to see how this SHOULD be done.)
Secondly, they screwed up the long-awaited Leaderboards which everyone had been waiting for by not showing us our OWN position in the charts! Who wants to see OTHER people's scores, without seeing where we sit amongst them?
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"Game over. Here's a bunch of people you've never heard of who played better than you. Better luck next time."
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(See Parachute Panic to see how this SHOULD be done.)
Additionally, our previous local high scores are not copied across to the new online scoreboards, so as far as submitting our high scores is concerned, we have to start again from scratch. If you had some nice high scores from before that you wanted to show off, you can forget about it.
And to top it all off, it allows more than one score from one person to be recorded on the leaderboards, leading to many instances of the same name being repeated.
All-in-all, the leaderboards that we have been waiting for for so long, although implemented, are a huge fail.Show lessBrettArchibald
Strangely addictive
I can't stop playing it. Basically you control a little man running on rooftops from what seems an alien invasion. One touch if the screen and you jump. Sounds simple? Well it's different everytime. you could all of a sudden have to jump through a window or maybe off of a collapsing building. You could get really unlucky and have an alien craft land into the building or place a device that turns you into dust if you hit it (a la War Of The Worlds).
I wasn't sure about spending on this but I'm glad I did. It's strangely addive, simple to do and with a great dramatic soundtrackShow lessAdamhodsdon399
A little expensive
get this game when its on sale. i love this game but I'm sorry it is expensive for something like this. But regardless, it is very fun and you'll be addicted to it like doodle jump. A few complaints are that everytime I die it says new high score... i had this game for 2 weeks now and i know what my record is.Show lessEvanHD
Better than I thought.
Update: I like the extra music choice, the option to vibrate (I keep it off), and the new platforms (billboards). I was thinking how awesome it'd be to jump onto and off of one of those mechs you see in the background. That'd be insane.
I hesitated buying this app for months, $3 is a bit much for such a simple game. I finally got it after seeing it in the Best of 2009, and it feels worth the pricetag. I like the attention to detail in the backgrounds, and the gameplay makes you just makes you want to keep playing. I'm a simple guy and sometimes I really enjoy simple games like this.Show lessRipp Steakface
Why it is $4
First off, this game is great.
It's loads of fun and there is a free online flash version which you may want to check out.
The reason it is $4 is because it's an indie devolper that makes this game and they need funds. So think as your purchase as support for these guys so they can keep make such great games.Show lessNoobpwnerer
