Kill Kill Monster

Publisher: 1UP Game Studio |  Cost: $0.99



Kill Kill Monster is an awesome game despite its fugly icon. The game play is deep enough, action frantic enough, and the price cheap enough (I got my while its free!).

If you like killing, blood splatter, and catapults, then this is the MUST HAVE game for you.

Your main objective in this game is to control your catapult at the bottom center of the map and squash all incoming monsters before they over run you. The basic gameplay is to fling your finger from the catapult to where you'd like your "rock" to land -- beware though, because the monsters are moving all the time so your aim would have to be to WHERE they're traveling to so by the time it lands you can crush them head-on.



Throughout the game you will collect points that will enable you to upgrade your rocks for each particular game -- my favorite being the fire splash damage upgrade where a number of small rocks are fired at the same time to an area. There are other rocks that temporarily freezes the enemy, or rocks that reload extremely fast.



If you really get caught in the heat you can also tap the bottom right hero icon to execute special ability that would basically call down awesome meteor showers around your catapult to annihilate all foes endangering your existance.

There are quite a few fun levels in Kill Kill Monster and you also get a grade depending on how you do after you finish each stage. It's pretty tough though, because my average rating would probably be C at best : (  Or maybe if I weren't being an achievement-whore I would've been able to complete each level faster who knows, personally I think it's just me and my finger being handicapped that's it.

Anyway I enjoyed this game a lot and definitely recommend you to pick it up.

AppApps Rating

Game Play:
The catapult is kind of slow, but definitely does not detract the fun

Graphics:
There's enough gore and blood to make you feel good

Mega Jump

Publisher: Get Set Games  |  Cost: FREE



Mega Jump is a well-polished vertical scroller. It's as simple as any other of its kind you try to reach as high as possible by tilting your iPhone to get through the obstacles in your way. Having said that, it's one of my favorite vertical scrollers to date and here's why.

Being an eye-candy whore the awesome graphics grabbed me instantly -- then being a sucker for all-things-cute the cuddly characters had me going for hours! But that's not all, Mega Jump offers a wide variety of elements in the game but yet it is so simple. Other vertical scrollers have obstacles that you'll run into or random platforms that you'll likely to miss. However, in Mega Jump there are COINS ($$$!!) that you have to collect -- each coin you collect, and only if you collect it, will propel you upward.

Sure feels better than hitting your face or missing that damned platform huh?


The coins you collect along the way gets translated into stars and with the stars you are able to unlock new contents such as power-ups or new OH-so-cuddly playable animals!



Aside from collecting coins you will also come across different power ups such as magnets which attracts coins to you automatically, or stars which propel you further than a coin would do, or some crazy stuff that just shoots you straight up for a long-time ignoring all obstacles in the way (my favorite), and a whole lot more:



Besides the fun mechanics of the game, there's also another interesting design in Mega Jump -- there are multiple levels like any other games, but each level is also "connected". Once you reach a certain height you can always come back and start from that height (level) afterwards. The vertical-world is one big connected theme park for your pleasure!

Like cute things? like money? like a well-polished vertical scroller game? Then download it now and you can have it all.

AppApps Rating

Game Play:
Simple, entertaining, and unlockables that keep you coming back for more

Graphics:
Don't think it supports Retina Display yet, but about as good as it gets!

Dinosaur Slayer

I think they are more like Dragon's than Dinosaurs...

I picked up Dinosaur Slayer randomly from the app store couple days ago. At 1st i wasn't digging it because of the Patapon-wannabe kind of art style -- not that I hated it, I love it it's a great style, but I've just seen too many developers try it and all the characters look more or less the same.

But boy I was surprised.

First of all, the game is a bit deeper than your average castle-defender I think. I've been through a couple castle-defenders but usually they get the "tap, hold, hit the (x)" treatment within a day. However, this game has managed to achieve dead-easy interaction & mechanics with interesting upgrades throughout.

The main interaction in Dino Slayer is simple all you need to do is frantically swipe your finger from left to right nonestop to hunt dragon's down with your arrows that's IT. There are quite a few upgrades that helps you in the process though:

- Magic spells that cast with the touch of a button (on a cool down timer)

- Arrow shot power (how much dmg your arrows do)

- Multi-shot for your arrows

- Auto-fix for your castle (so you generate health automatically)
- Dudes who sail out on a fishing boat collecting tasty dragon meats

And the list goes on.

At the end of each level you will receive gold based on your kills that can be used for upgrades. BUT, there's a catch and that's "Men hired". Basically every upgrade you do will add to your "hired men" count and this count in return consumes food (which you can buy with gold, or collect from the dino corpses) -- because when you have slaves working for you, you gotta feed 'em to keep them happy. If you don't have enough food then you will end up paying with your gold, which reduces your income (upkeep), so there is a tricky choice you have to try and balance throughout the game. My advice is to save the upgrades until A LOT later (also for achievements, if you want to upgrade everything) so you don't waste too much $ $ early on for slavery.

To add to the fun, every 20th level or so there's also boss encounters that are actually pretty epic and fun. The bosses do insane damage and are invincible to regular attacks unless a timed-yellow circle comes up for you to give 'em the low-blow. It took me 3 days to get to level 100 and I got completely RAPED by the last boss because I don't have enough upgrades (I think??) so it had me starting all over again (sigh) in order to do enough upgrades this time while getting more achievements.

Anyway without spoiling too much you guys should just pick this up and give it a try it's definitely one of the best castle defenders I've played I think!

!! UPDATE !!

Dammit, you guys have missed the FREE period I guess and now it's $0.99 on the app store : (  but still worth picking up I think!

AppApps Rating

Game Play:
Simple, catchy, with good intensity -- just don't hurt your fingers!

Graphics:
Been-there, seen-that type of style, but OH THE COLORS

MonsterVolley

Love sports games? I do! But typically they just don't have the same arcade feeling as console games do (like NHL2K11...) and the controls are just...flimsy? I was about to throw  MonsterVolley away within couple minutes, but because of its simplicity and cute cuddly characters it kept me going.