- Screen image courtesy Chillingo
I will admit to many embarrassing things: visiting a nude park in Germany when I was 13, wearing braces for nigh on 10 years and sinking way too many hours of time into “Angry Birds.”
So imagine, if you will, my intense desire to find a way to break my habit of staying up until 3 a.m. to unlock even more golden eggs.
I may have found it this week … though it led to yet another embarassing habit. (Hey, I’ll worry about kicking this one later.)
It’s called “Cut the Rope.”
The plot … if you will … is this: you get a little monster in the mail and you have to feed it candy. Simple, no? Well, instead of putting the candy in a bowl and setting it down in front of the little beast, you decided, in your infinite wisdom, to devise ever more intricate ways to drop the candy into your new monster’s mouth.
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Apparently, you are quite the masochistic pet owner.
Anyway, the candy is suspended from various ropes that you have to cut to drop the candy down to your new monster.
Along the way, you face all manner of impediment to your pet’s nourishment in the form of spikes and the like. You give yourself some bubbles and automatic rope shooters to help get around the obstacles.
In the end, this is a good old puzzle game with new trappings. Admittedly, those trappings are quite engaging and you will again find yourself spending hours of otherwise useful time trying to feed a monster candy. (There is a childrens’ book in there somewhere, I’m almost sure of it.)
It is entirely do-able to score the most amount of stars in the first chapter. Easily, in fact. I did it my first playthrough. It then gets progressively more difficult. By the last levels, you are lucky to get 2 out of 3 each level. In fact, I had to settle for none on two levels. (But I’m headed back to clean that up.)
Is this the “Angry Birds” killer? Probably so. Either way, Chillingo have definitely built a better mousetrap to snare our attention … and our 99 cents.
