I haven’t done one of these in quite a while since I haven’t really been buying any apps lately. Well this post is featuring the newly released Tiny Toots (since it’s actually new) with a few older titles I never got around to talking about. I recently got a Windows 7 phone so hopefully I’ll do a few things from that end sometime.
Tiny Toots
Tiny Toots can be purchased for 0.99 on the App Store.
Tiny Toots is a recently (as of yesterday) released game that I’ve been playing for a while and it’s safe to say that it’s pretty damn fun. If you’ve played Tiny Wings then Tiny Toots is right up your ally with virtually the exact same gameplay. Now I didn’t play much of Tiny Wings so I’m going to stop comparing the two and just tell you what’s cool about Tiny Toots. In it you play as a dinosaur called Houston who just escaped from the laboratory of Dr. Beanstalk and to help Houston escape you’re going to need to eat beans to keep up your speed (SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE?). As your sliding from hill to hill you’ll eat beans to fill up a boost meter that you can then use to give you a bean powered boost to launch you into the air (smell not included). A neat feature I liked was that when you lose/get captured and start over you’ll see a ghost of your previous run so the game has a sort of ghost mode melded into the regular game. I will admit that I’m quite rubbish at the game, I don’t think I got further than stage 5 or 6, but I still had fun with what I played and highly recommend it to any players of Tiny Wings.
Jetpack Joyride
Jetpack Joyride is FREE on the App Store.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months you probably haven’t heard of Jetpack Joyride, or if you’re an Android/Windows phone user like myself then you’re probably cursing anyone who can play it (luckily I have an iPod for my iOS needs). In Jetpack Joyride your task is to travel as far as you can without dying from electrical currents, missiles, or lasers all while collecting gold coins. With these coins you can then purchase outfits to deck Barry out in and you can even get new jetpacks with various visual effects. A few jetpacks you can expect to get include the piggy bank that shoots money, the bubble jetpack, fruit jetpack, laser jetpack, and my personal favorite the rainbow jetpack. There are even objectives given to you such as reaching a certain limit without hitting any coins or dying a certain amount of times to earn more coins. The only thing cooler than a jetpack is piloting one of the sweet vehicles you can pick up while playing like the robot dragon, Terminator influenced motorcycle (complete with shotgun), a mech and many more.
The Heist
The Heist can be purchased for 2.99 on the App Store.
The Heist is a neat little game where you’re hired by a mysterious woman to help her break into a vault that she says is full of riches galore, your job is to simply crack the code. You’ve got your typically infuriating sliding block puzzle game where you’ll need to move various blocks around to plug the electric circuit into the outlet, an even more infuriating sliding block game where you need to match wires up correctly (sorry, I really hate sliding block puzzles), a brilliant matching game where various rocks need to be placed in the right spot to achieve perfect zen, and a neat game where you control a robot that needs to move the blocks into the right spots. With four different types of puzzles all adding up to a total of 60 stages, The Heist will definitely give your brain a much needed work out for a few hours. Did I mention that if you fulfill a required amount of puzzles you’ll unlock a code to activate a Steam copy of the puzzler Eets? If you like Lemmings style games then Eets is right up your ally, and it’ll only cost you $3 plus the time it takes to unlock it (which isn’t long).
Knight Defense
Knight Defense can be purchased for 0.99 on the App Store.
As a fan of Chess I picked this game up thinking it was just a neat looking chess game. Instead I was given a sort of tower defense game with a chess setting. This is NOT a chess game and there is (unfortunately) no chess mode in it; this is straight up tower defense with a chess twist. Each round starts with your pieces in predetermined spots but you can’t move them and you can’t add more or pick which pieces you start out with. Each piece has a specific power that it can use such as the pawn being able to freeze enemies, the queen can give all her surrounding pieces a shield, and the Rook can fire powerful lasers in a cross formation. Now all these powers a fueled by an energy bar that all the pieces use so it’s wise to use a power when you really need it or else you’ll find yourself low in energy and with a fresh wave of enemies incoming. Now the enemies will spawn from various points in the map and beeline straight for your king so it’s wise to plan ahead what pieces need upgrading (which will also bring them to full health) and where to make the best use of your powers. These enemies don’t share the same skills you do so the only difference you’ll see with them is that some pieces do/take more damage such as the Rook having and dealing more health than a Pawn yet being slower. With a few dozen levels separated by easy, medium, and hard sections you’ll find quite a lot to do with this game.
