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Always crashes
Crashes every time I attempt tp run it. Uninstalled & reinstalled it. Rebooted. Nothing worked.
Fun puzzles + clever story + James Acaster narration = more than 5 stars
The setting and storyline are cute and clever, and lend themselves to a series of interesting puzzles.
And interesting they are. Not just the variety of challenges, but the consistently well balanced difficulty level. You can almost always muddle through and get bronze, and see how you would do better if you wanted to, and then decide that you just want to get to the next bit of story instead, and it’s just nontrivial enough that it’s fun to play that way. But when you want to go for gold or coins or the secret, that’s also usually a fun extra challenge. Whether it’s spotting the clever way to go backward, or treating the column like a pinball flipper and holding the ball for a moment, or just getting the timing right, it’s never been maddeningly impossible but it’s usually been enough to feel a sense of accomplishment. Amazing design here, to make the game work so well on both levels, and letting the player max and match the easy and hard on a whim.
So, that sounds like 5 stars, or at least 4, right? But the narration easily adds another 2 stars, minimum. And that’s a problem, because it goes over the 5 star limit that Apple imposes, which is frustrating. Seriously, I have no idea why you would hire James Acaster and then not even mention that on the Arcade/AppStore page, but since I happened to try this game anyway, and then got surprise Acaster, I’m selfishly happy. Who else could fit the whimsically silly but frantically panicked tone of this game as well as him?
And interesting they are. Not just the variety of challenges, but the consistently well balanced difficulty level. You can almost always muddle through and get bronze, and see how you would do better if you wanted to, and then decide that you just want to get to the next bit of story instead, and it’s just nontrivial enough that it’s fun to play that way. But when you want to go for gold or coins or the secret, that’s also usually a fun extra challenge. Whether it’s spotting the clever way to go backward, or treating the column like a pinball flipper and holding the ball for a moment, or just getting the timing right, it’s never been maddeningly impossible but it’s usually been enough to feel a sense of accomplishment. Amazing design here, to make the game work so well on both levels, and letting the player max and match the easy and hard on a whim.
So, that sounds like 5 stars, or at least 4, right? But the narration easily adds another 2 stars, minimum. And that’s a problem, because it goes over the 5 star limit that Apple imposes, which is frustrating. Seriously, I have no idea why you would hire James Acaster and then not even mention that on the Arcade/AppStore page, but since I happened to try this game anyway, and then got surprise Acaster, I’m selfishly happy. Who else could fit the whimsically silly but frantically panicked tone of this game as well as him?
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Perfect Small Puzzler
This is a cracking game. Simple and fun.
Really fun game
Really enjoyed the game
