SpeedyPups Review
Price: FREE
Version Reviewed: 1.01
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 5
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With obvious influences gleaned from Sonic the Hedgehog, SpeedyPups is a quite charming and fast-paced runner/platformer. It suffers from some strange difficulty spikes, with one mode proving to be too easy and the other too awkward, but it’s reasonably entertaining.
The former has the strange issue of taking too long. Auto-runners are generally designed for quick sessions and SpeedyPups eventually outstays its welcome - at least where Free Run is concerned. It’s pretty easy to rake up plenty of free lives, which means a session can last 15-20 minutes with little trouble. It’s fun for a time but it takes too long to throw in more significant obstacles such as robots to really grab your interest.
With a difficulty tweak here or there, SpeedyPups could be a bit more appealing. As it stands, it’s a little too long on one mode and a little too awkward on the other. That upgrade system is quite tantalizing though, and it captures the Sonic-esque feel to platforming reasonably well. SpeedyPups is so very nearly something special, but not quite.