pray4mojo said:
Yerm said:
i have to say, more mobile developers should take notes from Nintendo. i dont have an Apple device to play it on and i havent enjoyed auto-run games much at all, but the game itself just seems so clean.
obviously you pay $10 for it, and then there are no ads, micro-transactions, no stupid gold/gems/energy systems. its an actual game that you buy and start playing, and can play the whole way through in a single go. never any "you ran out of lightning bolts. watch an ad to get more lightning bolts or wait 10 hours." normally gamers would be use to this but on mobile devices it is so much more of a big deal. it makes me wish all games had a pay once format on mobile devices.
my only complaint though is the vault mechanic. Mario has never vaulted in any game before so it looks a bit weird, and unnecessary.
also i dont understand why there couldnt be an option to play in landscape mode. i get that it was made for single-handed gameplay so portrait mode is more optimal for that, but it doesnt do the game any good to not have it.
maybe i will try it out when it comes to android but until then i rate it 7.5/10 |
I've been playing Mario since 1986 and I'll admit that it's the first ios platformer that "gets it right". It's designed to work well with the input device and it works flawlessly. But as fun as it is, it drives me nuts not to be able to stop, run backwards etc. It's too simplistic for someone like me.
But I suppose they're not aiming for me now are they? lol
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Constantly Running forward, and not backwards, adds unique tension to the game. The portrait mode works because you will be jumping a lot, some of colored coins are located in tricky high locations and you need to time your jumps carefully if you want to collet those coins in a single run and be rewarded for it. Missteps and premature/late jumps are punished because you can't run backwards, and you will have to replay the level and get these colored coins in a single run if you want that 100%.
It's simplistic if you just want to run from start to finish. For completionists, it's a very tough game to clear. Rallies require lot of focus to win as well.
