A Gaming Diary
Aera (iPhone)
Not sure about this one yet, but I think it’s looking good, especially given the current price of 59p.
It looks lovely, all right, using 3D graphics for movement on a 2D plane. (No pun intended.) It’s a bit like NiGHTS, basically. Shame I managed to take the single most boring screen shot possible.
I went to Quick Game, chose School and found myself in detailed and helpful tutorial. Once I inverted the controls it seemed to control well and it felt like it was something special.
However, then I tried a game mode where you have to collect floating balls without hitting mines and I just couldn’t get to some of them. It was quite strange. I think I probably just need more practice, to work out what the plane can do.
Then I tried a combat mission, where you have to destroy enemy planes. That was really rather fun, but, again, I found myself unable to actually get to some of the power ups the enemy planes dropped.
It’ll probably come with practice and I reckon I’m just missing some subtleties right now.
My main complaint is that after those Quick Game modes I went to Campaign and it tried to make me do the the tutorial again. It was useful first time, but I really don’t want to sit through it again, but I couldn’t find any way to skip it.
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