Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots
Price: $0.99
Version: 1.0
App Reviewed on: iPhone 3GS
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Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots takes the familiar and vastly entertaining gameplay of the game that started it all and slaps a "not quite a sequel to Shrek" coat of pain on the proceedings. I'm talking Latin guitars in place of historic Japanese instrumentation. Magic Beans instead of frozen bananas. Fairytale backdrops where there were once dojo walls. And, of course, plenty of chatter from Puss in Boots himself (Antonio Banderas).
All the slicing and dicing is as fun as it's always been. Cutting up several wayward pineapples and their brethren in one swipe will grant a score multiplier, new blades and backgrounds can be unlocked, bombs must be avoided at all costs, etc... What's new and more than a little nifty is Bandito Mode, in which Puss (and by extension, the player) must tackle a series of brief but increasingly tough challenges in order to progress. These include carefully swiping around a MASSIVE bomb as it and those precious fruits bounce around the screen, making cuts with surgical precision as a group of oranges flies past a grid of tightly grouped explosives and more. All while on a very short timer.
By no means is Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots a bad game. It's a very good game that's a lot of fun. It's just that the original offers pretty much the exact same experience with a lot more content and modes. If someone already owns Fruit Ninja, I can't really think of a reason why they'd also want this version. Unless they're a huge fan of the movie or the actor, anyway.