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It’s actually a completely unique kind of puzzle game that tasks you with burning a design made out of rope by igniting just one point of the picture and guiding the flame, earning a medal based on the percentage of the entire picture that you burn. Your task, of course, is to match the like colors to clear them from the screen before they reach the end of the route, with a handful of power-ups aiding your progress by slowing down the stream, firing faster balls, or zapping a large chunk of balls, among others.I know what you’re thinking, but despite the name, Big Blue Bubble‘s newest iOS game Burn the Rope has nothing to do with the popular title Cut the Rope. Amun Rising, a port of a 2005 expansion pack, doesn't mess with the formula of the original Luxor, as it still finds you launching balls from the bottom of the screen at a stream of colored balls rolling down a path. Granted, if you've played one game like this – whether it's Luxor, Zuma, StoneLoops!, or Magnetica – you've pretty much played them all, as they all riff on a similar concept with relatively minor differences between them.

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But despite that obnoxious stink of unnecessary litigation, the iOS iterations of the original Luxor were actually pretty solid versions of the popular PC series, and Luxor: Amun Rising is another serviceable and relatively robust adaptation. Luxor's most notable action in the App Store to date has arguably been publisher MumboJumbo's legal wrangling to get StoneLoops! of Jurassica – a popular knock-off of the match-three marble-shooting game – removed in late 2009 due to perceived similarities. Instead, you'll have to collect ink blobs and unleash the power of the magical marker he received in the mail, which lets him draw on the world – whether it's paused or moving at a regular pace – to create platforms, stairs, bridges, and heavy objects to launch Max off of perfectly placed see-saws.

In this side-scrolling adventure, you'll use left and right arrows and a jump button to move Max through the common neighborhood backgrounds available at the outset, but those actions alone won't get the kid to his destination in each stage. Luckily, Max and his cartoonish orange pompadour have a second lease on life thanks to this just-released iPad iteration, which again delivers clever scenarios and charming visuals that kids and adults can enjoy. We liked Max and the Magic Marker (opens in new tab)well enough when it launched on WiiWare and PC last year, but a game like this – a platformer that requires directly drawn input, not unlike Crayon Physics Deluxe and Kirby's Canvas Curse – absolutely cries out for a touch interface. While you may look a little goofy playing this in public, it's so much easier to make the quick-fire steering decisions by tilting than dealing with the stiff, touch-based alternative. Word to the wise: choose the latter option. Luckily, the iPad version offers two distinct options: a touch-only interface, where you'll steer a wheel left or right when prompted and hit the boost or breaks at times, or a tilt-and-touch option where the steering is done with the accelerometer. We can't even imagine playing this with a laserdisc player remote control, though that's just what folks did back when it first shipped in 1985. Oh, but it also happens to be one egregiously frustrating, tough-as-nails experience. But not everything from that era deserves to be lost forever, as evidenced by Road Blaster HD, a lightly enhanced port of a cartoon-stylized driving game that employs awesome 80s animation and just looks so damn cool on the iPad. And they're mostly right those old Sega CD games certainly aren't getting any younger.

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Aside from Dragon's Lair, which continues to be led to any platform that will run it, the laserdisc and CD era of full motion video games is roundly dismissed by most gamers as generating only quick-thrills, aesthetics-over-everything trash.

Burn the rope app review