Rope’n'Fly 2 Lite (iPhone)

It’s not the most visually interesting game. I also keep getting into impossible situations, where I simply can’t reach the next building. I don’t mind, though. It’s small and cheap and cheerful and keeps me coming back, again and again.

The 1.4 update for Rope’n’Fly finally came out last night. I’ve been waiting for what seems like months, but I’ve had my iPhone about three weeks, so it’s probably less. With the update have come a couple of obvious changes. The first is that – hooray! – it now saves your personal best score, so

Oh, hello. A Spider-Man game in all but name, this is a simple little app that shouldn’t be as good as it is. There’s a side-scrolling city, you tap the screen to throw a web line, tap again to release it, fly through the air, then tap where you want your next line to go.