It’s Friday and it’s time for our new weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
APP OF THE WEEK
Parachute Panic: Fun rescue game, akin to swipe-based G&W Parachute – drawn with a biro. Infectious music. 4/5 $0.99 https://is.gd/1F76A
Grunts: Simplified Cannon Fodder. Retains good humour & graphic design, but controls poor & tactics lacking. 2/5 $0.99 https://is.gd/1F7jF
Air Sharing Pro: Turns device into wireless disk. Good UI. Feature-rich. Good view support. Dire email feature. 4/5 $9.99 https://is.gd/1GffO
iHandy Carpenter: Set of virtual tools. Great UI/calibration and good level tools, but naff, awkward ruler. 4/5 $1.99 https://is.gd/1Hxzs
Poppi: Akin to Electroplankton mixed with pool. Nice idea/sound/graphics, but very harsh difficulty spikes. 3/5 $0.99 https://is.gd/1IMlf
Frogger: Barely adequate update of an arcade classic, lacking the charm, music & nice graphics of the original. 2/5 $0.99 https://is.gd/1KqHl
Not the best of weeks for retro games. A buck for iPhone Frogger is a buck more than it’s worth (is it really too much to ask, Atari, for the original, superior graphics and the old music?), and Grunts looked like it’d be Cannon Fodder for iPhone, but ended up making me want to take a machine gun to my Apple device, due to shoddy controls.
Things were better on the app front, notably the genuinely useful Air Sharing Pro, which turns your iPhone into a wireless drive, although using a third-party server for the email function is a dreadful idea.
App of the week, though, has to be Parachute Panic. A little like Nintendo’s Parachute Game & Watch crossed with Flight Control, the aim is to get parachutists into waiting boats, without getting them killed. The original release of the game was awful, due to some stupidly unfair gameplay components, but this release is a million times better. The title tune is great as well, and I’m happy to admit I nipped into the game’s package to get that track into iTunes. Put it as a download on your website, Parachute Panic guys!
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