iPhone GAMING

Ok so this page is about gaming ON. A. PHONE.

The evolution of gaming has really taken a turn for the worse! awesome. However every week Apple launches a "free app of the week" and sometimes that free app is a fun game... or a terrible childrens app with no imagination.

The latest free app of the week I got was called "Lifeline" and is a story (visual novel) game where you get to make binary choices from time to time, but instead of having a yes or no button there is sentences on the buttons instead of just "yes" and "no". It seems to be written by someone either pretending to be young or really is young. The character in the game is called "Taylor". Taylor is stranded on a moon in outer space. He was a student that won a lottery ticket and got to board some random spaceship that later on crashed on a moon. That pretty much sums up the introduction of the story line.

So in thise game you make yes or no.... err I mean complex decisions that affects wheter or not Taylor finds a way out of the moon and other moral issues. I died on my first try, and I slayed one of the people you had an oppurtunity to save (by accident ofcourse). My impression of the game was that you run into various obstacles and then Taylor starts to whine about how difficult it is, that he cant do it, its physically impossible etc. and you have to press the "do it anyway" button a hundred times. If you DONT press the right button one hundred times it only takes on click for Taylor to do something else. This was kind of an issue for me at first because I didnt fully realise this, but when I did the game got a bit easier. And Taylors anxiety is very contagous. There are even some attemps to break the 4th wall in the game but not very successfull ones imo. The game was quite good overall altough a not very professionally written story, however the user interface was excellently, sorry if that isnt a real word, made. What I really think made it look space-ish was that theres like a graphically constructed glass overlay above the text so it looks like your looking at a monitor on a spaceship. I give this game 4 out of 5. I even got myself the sequal called "Silent Night" for aprox 1 dollar. The original game is better though. The game is unfortunately no longer free but it was sort of fun so I recommend getting it.