For some reason I just don’t like this game. I’m betting it’s the controls that make me not want to play it. In this platform game you take on the role of Sun Wukong the Monkey King. To move you tilt the phone left and right. To jump you have to swipe horizontally to create a cloud that Wukong will jump up on. Each cloud can be hopped on three times before it disappears. Through the game you collect coins and scrolls. When you collect specific items your energy will go up and when the bar fills Sun Wukong will transform (there are 4 forms in the game). To attack an enemy you simply swipe your finger through them on the screen. You can also get close to an enemy and need to do some pattern for defense.

Now there are two major flaws in all of this. First off, when you swipe to create a cloud it may or may not create the cloud where you swipe or exactly how you swiped. This made controlling the game annoyingly hit or miss. Second, the defense patterns can often be quite complex and you are given very little time to do them. On top of that, if you were already attempting to do something (draw a cloud, attack an enemy) you will automatically fail the defense because you didn’t do the pattern properly. That was enough to make me put the game down and not want to come back to it.

The graphics in the game are sort of classically Chinese and yet not. They’re not bad but not all that impressive either as the colors seem sort of mottled to me and the environments are full of redundant items that you will continually pass again and again.

The sound is an annoyingly repetitive drone of drums which made me want to just turn the sound off completely. The only other sounds in the game are when you draw a cloud of attack someone and those sounds are also redundant.

Overall, I think this game just doesn’t have anything of interest. The shaky controls coupled with the lackluster sound make me want to put the game down and not pick it up again. It’s entirely possible that some of you might like it but I can’t see how you would get past the control issues to find the fun.

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