Leap Day is very entertaining and I really like the levels offered each day. I also like the achievements, collect all fruit for 10 days and gold medal in the same days trophies, you will be mine. The level variety is great and gives all kinds of challenges, controls are perfect, only can blame yourself for a missed tap and for not seeing through the mace in time. There are a ton of ads but there is an option to turn it paid and premium. Well done, maybe their best game since Gunbrick.
Just deleted Leap Day. Platforming felt just a bit too imprecise for me, getting caught on tiny edges and things like that. And not a fan at all of the watching videos to unlock checkpoints model - I don't think you get enough fruit to unlock every checkpoint, and the platforming wasn't fun enough to me to make the repetition of sections - if I didn't unlock that checkpoint - anything other than tedious.
If anything it makes me dislike the F2P model even more because I now wonder if they would have filled each section with enough fruit to unlock checkpoints that way if the game weren't F2P.
If Leap Day gives enough fruit in each section to afford the checkpoint it would become too easy. There are also videos to pay for it. Or a premium unlock.
Personally, Nitrome's free to play stuff has been hit and miss, with more in the latter camp. Their paid stuff like Gunbrick and Icebreaker have been fantastic though.
Nitrome has an option to make the app premium in most of their games, removing ads and in this one unlocks all checkpoints?
It's great if you like either previous Uncharted games (or Tomb Raider if you haven't). Not sure if it's quite the 10/10 some sites have given it but definitely a must have if you are a fan of the genre.
Didnt like the first one, the second one was a blast but just because I completed the whole game by fist, punching all enemies and running smartly from cover to cover to engage with maximum health. Only because of that... and the amazing moving train level. Didnt like the third either.
So my Hawaiian flight games list is about ready I think:
- Pizza Boy
- Battleheart Legacy
- Galaxy on Fire HD 2
- Warhammer Quest
- The Quest Gold
- Miss Claire Garden
- Crossy Road
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80 Days would be a fantastic addition to that Hawaiian flight... a highly re-playable exploration, decision making, some sort of write your own adventure through multiple paths type of game that takes a while to discover its hundreds of different brilliantly written routes to conker that challenge. Multiple paths to discover, tons of stories to unfold, some adrenaline pumping decisions to take,... and on top of that, add to that a little sim management and some text adventure all wrapped nicely with some of the best writing a storybook game has ever seen (we all know the book behind it) with a coat of polish and a ton of bright ideas and you have one of the very best AppStore games. You need it for your trip.
