Leap Day

Hello. Today I'm reviewing another mobile game.

The game is called Leap Day, and I'm reviewing it for iOS. The game is titled Leap Day because every day there's a new jumping puzzle level consisting of 15 parts. It's a very innovate game in that it literally produces more content for you play every day. Theoretically you could keep playing it and every day it would be new. You play as a small yellow creature with a green nose and the ability to jump once or twice in midair. The levels are scrolling platformers. There are walls on either side of the screen that limit your horizontal movement, but the level progresses by traveling upwards. Your character walks from left to right on the screen, turning back around when he comes into contact with a wall, or dying if he hits a hazard or monster. You tap the screen to make him jump, the character can double jump off of the ground. If it falls off of a platform, it can make two jumps because it didn't use a jump to leave the platform. It can also jump onto and off of walls, and off of monsters it jumps onto. Each level is comprised of 15 parts. In each part there are obstacles, hazards, and monsters that make it hard to finish that section. If you pass over the red banners at the top of the section, then you can unlock a checkpoint in case you die in the next section. To unlock a checkpoint you jump into a room through a door that opens up off the right side of the level. In the room there are two chests, if you jump into one chest you can buy the checkpoint with 20 fruit. There are fruit located throughout the entire level that can be dangerous to acquire, they function to keep track of your score. If you don't have twenty fruit, you can bump into the second chest which will unlock the checkpoint if you watch an add. If you jump into another room next to that one, you can bump into a chest to buy the premium version of the game for only a few dollars. The premium version is the same except when you jump into a checkpoint room there is only one large chest that will unlock the checkpoint for free. The checkpoints are numbered 1-15, starting at 15. The screen that shows all the levels is a calendar, with a level every day going all the way back to when the game was released. If you pass checkpoint 10, you earn a bronze trophy for that level on the calendar. If you pass checkpoint 5, you get s silver trophy. If you finish the level, you get a gold trophy, and if you finish the level and collect every fruit you get a crown with an apple. After completing checkpoint 1, you jump above a banner platform with black and white finish line colors. You jump up onto a late red button on an enormous trophy to complete the level. The trophy will total the percent of fruit you found, and if you found them all a crown and an apple will sprout from the trophy. Each level has a different back ground behind the obstacles, like a forest, or a castle, or even space. Every level is filled with countless hazards like spikes, sawblades, or fire. The number of monsters in each level is staggering, with things like purple crawlers that spit at you or large electric octopi.

I highly recommend getting Leap Day free on the App Store if you're ready for a daily dose of fun. Bye.


- By Ashton