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HBP said:
Flick Kick Football update is out, new mode is a lot of fun.

This game is EVIL!!

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Game of my summer.
 
Helsing's Fire is the best puzzle game on the AppStore. I'm not sure if it fits the puzzle genre, but whatever; it's the king of whatever genre you put it in.

Seriously, every iDevice gamer must get it. I assure tons of fun.
 
I cant recall but maybe someone can help here..

I think it was a puzzle game on the iPhone that had cute little hand drawn characters

I remember seeing screenshots and one of the chars was a small little king cartoon guy with fire coming from his eyes.. Anyone recall this game?
 
Benedict said:
I can't really understand the love for Pix'n'Rush. Graphics are good but the awful controls ruin the game for me.
I can't really understand the love for many games that keep getting suggested around, honestly. Most are extremely shallow and often control quite horribly.
 
So I played up till the end of the first floor of Helsing's Fire.

It's really quite nice with a unique mechanic. i love the effect of the light and shadows passing around the obstructions. it just looks great.

Oh, and the fist bump animations at the end of each round crack me up.

I don't know how much longer the mechanic will stay fresh for me but I think it'll be a good game to play in short bursts. Easily worth 99 cents.
 
Has anyone here tried Aztec Quest?

It's sort of a Rube Goldberg puzzle game. I've done the first 20 of 65 levels and I'm enjoying it. You can also play levels that other people have created. It's 99 cents, and there is a free lite version.

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I just searched and the only mention was someone saying he preferred Electric Box, which was enough for me to buy that also :lol

It's not perfect, it could certainly be improved upon, but I like the idea. I'd rather some developer make another game like this and add more contraptions and the ability to rotate pieces, instead of totally unnecessary ripoffs like Veggie Samurai...
 
xbhaskarx said:
totally unnecessary ripoffs like Veggie Samurai...

The thing about Veggie Samurai is that the plot doesn't even make sense. Why would a Samurai cut up vegetables? What is his motivation? I hate when developers don't even make an effort to justify their premise.
 
Anyone recommend some mystery solving games for the iPad? I've already seen one here

And for Scrabble, is there a way for two people to play together on the same iPad?

EDIT: I guess Pass N Play covers that
 
Stumpokapow said:
The thing about Veggie Samurai is that the plot doesn't even make sense. Why would a Samurai cut up vegetables? What is his motivation? I hate when developers don't even make an effort to justify their premise.
That will not be an issue with my new game, Legume Assassin.
 
TurtleSnatcher said:
I cant recall but maybe someone can help here..

I think it was a puzzle game on the iPhone that had cute little hand drawn characters

I remember seeing screenshots and one of the chars was a small little king cartoon guy with fire coming from his eyes.. Anyone recall this game?
Not exactly fire from his eyes, but could it be Devils Invasion?
 
Meus Renaissance said:
Anyone recommend some mystery solving games for the iPad? I've already seen one here

And for Scrabble, is there a way for two people to play together on the same iPad?

EDIT: I guess Pass N Play covers that

Yep. Scrabble on the iPad is amazing, and coupled with a couple of iPhones it's really clever.

Benedict said:
I can't really understand the love for Pix'n'Rush. Graphics are good but the awful controls ruin the game for me.

Controls are fine, never had a problem.
 
nofi said:
Yep. Scrabble on the iPad is amazing, and coupled with a couple of iPhones it's really clever.

I just purchased the iOS 3.0 so I could download Scrabble Tile Rack to my iPod Touch. I start the app and it tells me to turn the Bluetooth on. Except, this is a 1st gen iPod Touch and it has no Bluetooth. Despite that I've read a few comments online saying it still works. I don't have my iPad at the moment so I can't test it. How would it work though if you don't have Bluetooth?

Quite annoyed that it doesn't specify this beforehand (what specific models will/wont work with it). I've emailed iTunes support asking for a refund to the 3.0 software update I purchased in the meantime.
 
xbhaskarx said:
Has anyone here tried Aztec Quest?

It's sort of a Rube Goldberg puzzle game. I've done the first 20 of 65 levels and I'm enjoying it. You can also play levels that other people have created. It's 99 cents, and there is a free lite version.

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I just searched and the only mention was someone saying he preferred Electric Box, which was enough for me to buy that also :lol

It's not perfect, it could certainly be improved upon, but I like the idea. I'd rather some developer make another game like this and add more contraptions and the ability to rotate pieces, instead of totally unnecessary ripoffs like Veggie Samurai...
That's strange. I remember playing a flash game before that looked exactly like this but the name was nothing like Aztec Quest. Does this game have a level editor? A big part of the flash game was making your own levels then seeing how many people could solve it.
 
Meus Renaissance said:
I just purchased the iOS 3.0 so I could download Scrabble Tile Rack to my iPod Touch. I start the app and it tells me to turn the Bluetooth on. Except, this is a 1st gen iPod Touch and it has no Bluetooth. Despite that I've read a few comments online saying it still works. I don't have my iPad at the moment so I can't test it. How would it work though if you don't have Bluetooth?

Quite annoyed that it doesn't specify this beforehand (what specific models will/wont work with it). I've emailed iTunes support asking for a refund to the 3.0 software update I purchased in the meantime.

It doesn't. Needs Bluetooth. Dumb, eh?
 
Jocchan said:
I can't really understand the love for many games that keep getting suggested around, honestly. Most are extremely shallow and often control quite horribly.
It's usually something polished in some way and/or has some elaborate upgrade system, which usually means fancy graphics with shallow/poor gameplay and/or an obnoxiously grindy upgrade system.

...or by a dev that happens to be on GAF of course. The few I've tried seem alright though.
Stumpokapow said:
The thing about Veggie Samurai is that the plot doesn't even make sense. Why would a Samurai cut up vegetables? What is his motivation? I hate when developers don't even make an effort to justify their premise.
You must hate Treasure then.
Jocchan said:
Who wouldn't want to play Meat Pirate?
You might have to go to Android porn store instead.
 
You guys should try Chop Sushi! Off the AppStore. It's pretty cool and has great visuals. A nice take on a puzzler. Plus it's free :D
 
japtor said:
You must hate Treasure then.

Treasure's plots are excellent. The thing about Veggie Samurai is that it's a ripoff of Fruit Ninja. Fruit Ninja has a really compelling plot. Veggie Samurai doesn't. That's what makes it suck.
 
:lol people actually pay attention to the story in Fruit Ninja? I just slash fruits, couldn't give a crap about some overwrought story . . . writing in games is pathetic anyway for the most part, and iPhone games are even worse in that respect.
 
AstroLad said:
:lol people actually pay attention to the story in Fruit Ninja? I just slash fruits, couldn't give a crap about some overwrought story . . .

There's nothing overwrought about the ancient hatred of fruits by ninjas! Just because you're so used to star wars fan fiction that you don't appreciate a really deep story doesn't mean the rest of us should have to put up with half-rate exposition like in Veggie Samurai.
 
I picked up Twin Blades, and the game is amazingly gorgeous. :O


But the game itself its repetitive, and boring. D:



Whats the census on the following games?

HECTOR: Badge of Carnage Ep.1

Soosiz

Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered
 
LCfiner said:
So I played up till the end of the first floor of Helsing's Fire.

It's really quite nice with a unique mechanic. i love the effect of the light and shadows passing around the obstructions. it just looks great.

Oh, and the fist bump animations at the end of each round crack me up.

I don't know how much longer the mechanic will stay fresh for me but I think it'll be a good game to play in short bursts. Easily worth 99 cents.
I was coming in here to ask about this. More impressions please!
 
Labombadog said:
I picked up Twin Blades, and the game is amazingly gorgeous. :O


But the game itself its repetitive, and boring. D:



Whats the census on the following games?

HECTOR: Badge of Carnage Ep.1

Soosiz

Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered

I think Soosiz is amazing. Best platformer I've played in a while.
 
xbhaskarx said:
Has anyone here tried Aztec Quest?

It's sort of a Rube Goldberg puzzle game. I've done the first 20 of 65 levels and I'm enjoying it. You can also play levels that other people have created. It's 99 cents, and there is a free lite version.

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OMG is this like that whizzball flash game??!


OMG Aero said:
That's strange. I remember playing a flash game before that looked exactly like this but the name was nothing like Aztec Quest. Does this game have a level editor? A big part of the flash game was making your own levels then seeing how many people could solve it.

Whizzball, dude. So good. So good.
 
ZZMitch said:
OMG is this like that whizzball flash game??!

I just tried Whizzball: Yes, it is exactly the same. Almost all the pieces are the same, hell even the colors (purple curved tubes, red springs, black conveyor belts, yellow catapults--with red levers!) are the same!

Whizzball:
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Aztec Quest:
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Any word on when Final Fantasy Tactics is hitting the platform? Also, have Square shown it in action? I'm praying they don't muck up the controls. I sort of regret buying FF1 on this thing, because battles are way more tedious than they should be.
 
Vyer said:
I was coming in here to ask about this. More impressions please!
I played about 50 stages. It really is super-fun, original, with superb production values. No one can tell you exactly how the game is played; you must try it out for yourself. Pretty much my favorite iPhone game, out of the 60 or so that I have.
 
Thx echoes.

And yeah, HECTOR is pretty great. Funny, mix of low brow and twisted humor on top of a solid PNC adventure engine. Controls are great too; really natural with the phone.
 
Labombadog said:
I picked up Twin Blades, and the game is amazingly gorgeous. :O


But the game itself its repetitive, and boring. D:

This is how I felt about it myself at first as well. But when I really started to master the controls and make the character jump and hack and shoot around with skilled accuracy, the game became really fun to play and to progress in the story and upgrades.

I must say though, I just reached the final boss and I've sort of lost interest a bit for the moment. (atm I'm playing 2XL TrophyLite, Jet Car Stunts and Espgaluda 2 more)
 
Vyer said:
I was coming in here to ask about this. More impressions please!
for the most part, Heilsings Fire is an incredibly boring spacial recognition puzzler, and it borrows a little from Knights in the Nightmare with the dodge enemy bullets thing. that part is pretty cool, but they don't do anything interesting with it until the last 3rd of the game, save the 2 boss bottles, which means you gotta play through like 50 inane puzzles_puzzles is probably too strong a word_ before it gets fun.
 
No one's posted about StarDunk yet!? Video here.

Simple basketball shooting game where you just control the trajectory/power by aiming that line. Nice part about it is the online multiplayer, it's a live time attack. If you're on a computer it's basically this game but with fancy graphics and powerup stuff. When you play online it shows locations of other players and their points in the background on the globe. If you have an iPad it plays nicely on there cause you have so much room, looks pretty good for a pixel doubled iPhone game too.

If you liked Baseball Slugger a while back you'd probably like this, simple gameplay + online competition. Also has upgraded stuff to unlock...not a big fan of that stuff myself long term though.
 
This thread is dangerous. Every time I peep in I leave with new apps on my list. This time it was Helsings Fire (and probably Whizzball). I have an app backlog larger than all my other backlogs combined!

xbhaskarx said:
That will not be an issue with my new game, Legume Assassin.
Day one. I hope it stacks up to Courgette Killer.
 
Labombadog said:
I picked up Twin Blades, and the game is amazingly gorgeous. :O


But the game itself its repetitive, and boring. D:



Whats the census on the following games?

HECTOR: Badge of Carnage Ep.1

Soosiz

Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered
You should give Wolf Boy a shot. Gameplay is better IMO.
 
SmokyDave said:
This thread is dangerous. Every time I peep in I leave with new apps on my list. This time it was Helsings Fire (and probably Whizzball).
LOL. I so agree. Need to only visit this thread when I get paid.
 
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth is out. A great little tower defence game with AT-ATs and Snowspeeders and other things from that movie I never saw

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iTunes: £1.79 / $2.99 / €2.39
 
Reccomend me some turnbased games that i can play with my friends with push based notifications [but not Words with Friends or Chess with Friends].

Fire away.
 
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