Ms. Splosion Man Review
Price: $2.99
Version: 1.0
App Reviewed on: iPhone 5
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With her volatile soul-mate captured, Ms. Splosion Man sets out to perform a one woman rescue. This walking, talking explosion gets around via the usual means (i.e. a left/right virtual slider and a tap-to-jump control scheme) only jumping is actually the result of “sploding.” Basically she can move left and right, and ‘splode up to three times before needing to recharge but there are a number of elements to each stage that add quite a bit of complexity to the mechanics. Elements such as the health bar tying in to ‘splosion energy, so taking a hit means no jumping for a second or two whereas taking that same hit with no juice means a trip back to the last checkpoint.
Ms. Splosion Man has received a fair amount of accolades since its release; all of which are well deserved. This is a fantastic platformer bursting with humor, personality, clever mechanics, devious levels, and even devious-er bosses. And every bit of that awesomeness (aside from the fancy menu screen and a little visual detail from the Xbox/PC version) has made it onto iOS. And then some, as players can safely exit a game partway through a level and continue from the last checkpoint if they so desire, even after closing the game out entirely. The controls are responsive, too, which is good because if they weren’t they could completely ruin the experience.
Ms. Splosion Man isn’t without its share of porting woes, but the problems aren’t significant enough to ruin any chance of fun. In fact it’s pretty much impossible not to have fun with it.