Once Upon a Time I dreamed I was a Spider

Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor – 5 out of 4 stars

I was kidding about the stars. The first official AGG iPhone Game review, except I tend to think of these as anecdotes of my favorite past-time, not a review, for an actual review please go to a more reputed (yet infinitely less awesome) site where a game like this would get a 8.9 (where are they deducting the points from?).

Just 2 things:

1) This game is Castlevania meets Bad Mojo. For those who know what I am talking about you can stop reading now and donate that 2.99 to iTunes and the Developer Tiger Style.

2) This game made me play on my iPhone for more than 5 minutes. That coming from an iPhone Developer sounds a little hypocritical, especially when the one I wrote, Summation, would take a person with normal IQ a lot more than 5 minutes to play. I do firmly believe that the best iPhone gaming sessions are served under 5 minutes (if you want to know why, read this), but of course there are exceptions, this being one of them.

Am I actually going to talk about the game? Well… No. I could tell you this game have you playing the role of a spider, but even a person with below-average intelligence could probably tell from the screen-shot. I could tell you the atmosphere of this game blows you away. And there is a story here to tell, not so much with words but with gorgeous art and appropriately atmospheric background music that actually didn’t end up annoying me. The in-game controls are simple, and there’s no virtual joystick (another plus), and it gives me sheer joy watching the spider soar through the sky, catching a huge bee in midair, landing flawlessly on the cobweb it just spun moments before… for me that was a fleeting moment of sheer ecstasy on the iPhone which brought me to… tears (were you expecting something else?)

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