An audience watches on as a young woman appears on stage. As the spotlight reveals her to be Yuna, the shy but brave young heroine who saved the whole world from oppression and suffering two years before, they cheer in delight. Yuna takes a few steps forward before gracefully turning on her heels.
On the PC, Machinarium shone as a point-and-click adventure game that didn’t need dialogue to catch the eye, instead relying on its unusual, lateral-thinking puzzles and lovingly detailed visual style. After playing it for a few minutes, I thought The Passenger from Loading Home might prove to be its spiritual sibling on iOS.
The diet has been in full swing for about two months. It’s a fully-fledged, actually-really-happening, honestly-lost-some-weight diet and I’m very proud of that. Sadly, it’s not been the most prolific of diets. It’s important to lose weight at a steady rate, of course, but there is such a thing as too slow. The issue? Definitely a lack of exercise. I’ve managed to get hold of my eating with the excellent My Fitness Pal app, but there’s definitely a need for a complementary exercise app to help and encourage me to shed that flab a bit quicker as well as put on some muscle (MIA since 2001). Over the last few days GAIN Fitness has shown itself to be a reasonably strong contender for the job.
About a year ago we described Ash as “one of the best role-playing games nobody played on the iPhone.” But it seems that with its SNES-like visuals and well written story Ash charmed enough people out there for the rather lofty name of Konami to step in and throw its weight behind a sequel.
Do you know what I was thinking as I drifted through the serene marine observation that is the Wii’s Endless Ocean? Boy, this game needs spears. Lo and behold, the iPhone once again delivers the goods with Spearfishing 3D and now its sequel, Spearfishing 2
On the consoles an on-rails game may be a rare and risky endeavour, but on iOS devices the genre is appropriately unstoppable. Particularly so the seemingly infinite brand of on-rails, games like madcap platformer Canabalt and Apple Europe’s iPhone game of the year, Tiny Wings, which are as much about endurance as they are about dexterity. It may not quite b in the lofty ranks of those games, but step forward Stay Alive to get 2012 rolling and rolling and rolling along.