3 iOS games

Hello people's. Today I'm gonna be talking about some more ios games. Here it goes.

My first review is of the recent expansion of the popular puzzle game Monument Valley. So if you've played Monument Valley you know that your character, the princess, has stolen "sacred geometrical objects" from strange, impossible, landscapes that look like M. C. Escher drawings. When she stole these objects it reduced the population of beautiful, intelligent, multicolored, birds into mindless, flightless Ravens. So the princess has returned to these landscapes, these monuments, to put the sacred geometry back in its rightful place and restore the glory of the bird people. On her way the human queen of this civilization, untouched by the effects of the misplaced geometry, scolds the "thieving princess" and demanding that she return the objects. Along her way she is also helped by a living monument dubbed totem because he appears as a four block tall totem pole. Eventually the princess returns all 10 of the objects and after the final one is returned the Ravens burst into color once again and fly off into the sky. Shortly after a crown descends from the sky and onto the princesses head and shows her true form, a gleaming white dove, implying that she was the princess of the ravens all along. The expansion Forgotten Shores does not have a very unique storyline it just implies that the princess forgot to return 8 objects or that this takes place before the final event in the original game. However the expansion is even better than the original game, in that the monuments are even more beautiful and enchanting and the puzzles are more challenging, intuitive, and fun than the originals were.

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At the end of the final level the floating square that is the environment in level 10 of the original appears above the princess and totem which may indicate that this takes place between level 9 and level 10 of the original.
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The second game is another intriguing puzzle game called HOOK. HOOK has no storyline it is just a relaxing, minimal puzzle game. In HOOK the goal for each level is to remove all of the thick black lines without bumping into another. To remove one you tap a black circle that will run a "current" along skinny black "wires" and if the thick black line is not obstructed it will disappear. You cannot remove a black line if it has another black line over it or if it would bump into a curved black line while its retracting. The game has fifty levels so far and another mechanics to make it interesting like circles you can tap to change the direction of the wires and signals that whenever activated will activate it's correspondent. The game was independently developed by Maciej Targoni and I implore you to download and support his/her game. They have promised to create more levels if the game is well received and I want more.

The final game is called Reaper: Tale of a Pale Swordsman. Reaper is a 2D action side scroller. The story is rather rich for an iOS game. Your origins are not known you are just a rather pale fellow dressed in black with a large sword. One day you come out of the mountains to the east and find yourself in the middle of a battle between two opposing factions. On one side is the Wilderlings, the tribal natives to this land they are well versed in magic and primitive weapons. On the other side is the invading force, the imperial army with guns and war machines of bronze. Both sides constantly hire you to do jobs and attack you for seemingly no reason. Pretty soon elves appear, animals start going crazy, and demons start to appear. Demons are said to be an omen that things are about to change.. Reaper is an amazing game and may be my favorite on this list. The combat is fluid and almost never gets old. The story is rich and there are many companions that you'll meet on your adventure. I highly recommend buying Reaper: The Pale Swordsman especially if you like sidescrollers.

So there are 3 great iOS games. Bye.



- By Ashton