The first impression that Icycle: On Thin Ice makes cannot be overstated. While the game itself is beautifully displayed and has a unique sense of humor, it unfortunately feels too "floaty" and imprecise in the control department to really be a stand out title. Icycle: On Thin Ice is well worth a pop, with varied, exciting, clever gameplay the dish of the day.Icycle: On Thin Ice is the latest platformer from Chillingo. In later levels when the action became more heated, I found myself slip-sliding around a bit too much, and wished the movement were a bit tighter. For the first half of the game, I felt like I was in full control and the virtual buttons were doing the job a-ok. The controls are refreshingly solid – to a point. Don’t collect anything! Stop jumping! It’s all rather simple, yet works wonders to get you going back over and over to collect absolutely everything (and if you do manage to collect everything, you’ll get the original Icycle game for free!)
You’ll want to keep going back to see each level again and again too, thanks to special challenges that ask you to try tackling scenarios in different ways. You’d be hard-pushed to find a game on iOS that looks as fantastically smooth and crisp as Icycle, and given there are hundreds of games released for iOS every day, that’s really saying something.
The visuals are tidy and vivid, and slide around with gorgeous finesse. The amount of creativity that has been bunged into every corner of this experience is rather extraordinary.Īnd the game is remarkably good-looking throughout. Remember when I said in the intro that you’re looking to kiss a fish? That’s probably one of the less-strange things you’ll witness in this game. It helps that Icycle isn’t just varied – it’s wonderfully weird and hilarious too. One moment you’re bounding through a fairground, and the next you’re in the midst of a world-ending war. It’s essentially impossible to become bored, as every minute offers something entirely new. Icycle: On Thin Ice is wonderfully varied in its level design, its customization options, its storyline, and generally everything else it has to offer. Over a series of 20 levels, you need to dodge around obstacles and traps, keeping Dennis alive as levels tumble down around you, and generally try to kill you in some of the most ludicrous ways possible. Dennis is a strange man riding on a rather small bicycle, looking for love in the most peculiar of places.
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