Jay Goldman: Hi I'm Jay Goldman, you are watching Mr. Mobile on butterscotch.com. Today we are going to take a look at two iPhone games, they are both really quick ones to take a review off, but both of them are going to take the space in your head away and you are just going to be obsessed with playing them constantly. So the first one is called SquareBall, comes in two versions, SquareBall light is free and the SquareBall game itself is a $1.99, you'll find both on the app store or as always the download links on butterscotch.com.
Before I even I show this to you that this is most frustratingly difficult game ever constructed on any platform. It feels like you are going to throw your iPhone out of window constantly, if you are the kind of person that gets really annoyed by things like that don't even start playing. If you are kind of person who enjoys the challenge though I have to say I probably spend more time playing and cursing at this game than I've spent playing any other game that I've had on my phone and if you look at anybody commenting about it online they will say exactly the same thing.
Its kind of cool because it's got really retro graphics and sound feel, it almost made me feel like I was playing my Atari 2600 right down to sort of the music. It's a little better than the Atari was but sort of got that same kind of fell to it. So your goal is to collect all of the green squares optionally pink and blue squares as well to clear a level. Now that makes it sound really simple. But basically what you are doing is you got a little white ball its bouncing up and down here and ball always stays in the middle of the screen and what you are actually doing is dragging the background behind it and so you are moving through the level by just dragging and you are trying to collect the green. It sounds simple I know but it gets harder and harder and harder and although this level goes sideways and most of them do, a few of them go up and down which introduces a bit of a difference to the game.
Also as you progress through it you'll start to encounter different colors of squares, so you'll hit yellow stuff which slows the ball down, you'll hit brown stuff which makes the ball go fast, you'll hit red stuff which immediately kills you and that red stuff is what makes the last couple of levels a really big challenge. So the last sort of type of block you'll encounter without giving too much away but in the later levels you'll see blocks of the other colors that turn out not to be solid. So you'll almost have to be explore the level by bouncing the ball around and waiting for it to disappear through a wall that looks also. It gets a lot harder as you get further into the game. A lot fun a big challenge give it a try.
The second one we are going to take a look at is called Flood It. Again it also comes in a free or pro version. The pro version is $0.99, pretty much a free application and the concept here is also really, really simple. You start off with a board that's full of different colored blocks and you can change the size of the board so we are looking here at a medium boar and essentially what you are trying to do is turn the entire thing one color and you do that by tapping on these colored balls at the bottom which change the color of the squares up here. You start in the top left corner and by tapping on one of these like yellow I change start from there the color of everything. So as I progress through the board and I keep changing these I can get it all to be one color. On the small version you've got 22 moves to get through the game as you move up to the other sizes, you get more but trust me that's not going to make it a whole lot easier.
So I think you got about 30 on the medium size for example. You can also change the color scheme and the settings that's pretty much all you've got control over stuff, you find the original color sort of too bright you can change it to something else. Its relatively easy to get through it on the small board size, it's damn near impossible on large, I have managed to do medium a couple of times. What I really like about this game is its very low key. It reminds me a little bit of textures but without the motion. You basically just keep tapping the colors to change it if you don't get through it on the right number of moves you just start a new board and keep going. Its really a fantastic kind of time waste your type application. So you know sitting in the doctors office ridding on the bus that sort of stuff, really nice, I find it really coming same sort of effect that touches always had so. A good one if you are looking for something like that and at $0.99 you can't really go wrong.
It's been Mr. Mobile, I am Jay Goldman, thanks for watching, catch us next time on butterscotch.com.
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