REViEW: The Fish Dies in the End (iPhone & iPod)

Posted on 13. Apr, 2011 by Freddy Aikens in Featured, Review

The Fish Dies in the End by Gutenberg Neto

Pick Up & Play game

You’re a cute little fish trying to survive as long as possible against all odds.

Features:

•Entertaining 2D cartoon graphics.
•Retina support.
•Several unique obstacles and enemies to avoid – beware of sharks!
•Simple, one-touch controls. Anyone can play!
•Randomly generated game – a different experience every time you play!
•Game Center integration – Achievements and Leaderboards.
•Facebook and Twitter connectivity.
•Multiple difficulty levels.
•Best way to kill time! (And a fish…)

Instructions Manual?
-Slide finger. Avoid danger.

The Numbers

Graphics

Sounds

Overall

Game Play

Interface

THE DETAILS

Developers quotable quote

Best way to kill time! (And a fish…)

Developer :

Gutenberg Neto

Price : $0.99

Lite version : -

The words

We’ll say it one more time: Best App Name Ever.

The gameplay on this one is rather simple… fish swims against the flow, hit any other sea creature and lose a life, your only option is up and down which is controlled by a simple tap and release on screen. Watch carefully on the Homescreen for the Game Center icon to go floating upwards.

The game comes with 3 modes: Easy, Medium and Hard. Easy is well, easy, its minus the sharks and doesn’t require much more than timing. Medium comes with sharks, while Hard also comes with sharks but everything in the ocean comes at you faster.

Shark attacks come in the form of a darkened ocean and they move at speed in a pack… although it usually only took one movement to avoid them all.

I could see young kids really loving this game as the controls and concept are easy. However for an adult it won’t have as much staying power. While its provides somewhat of a challenge, at the moment it is a little too one dimensional.

Hearts are the only things you can collect, the graphics could have offered a richer environment, enemies movements could have been more unpredictable, action under the water needed some more pizazz.

The basis for a good game is there, but maybe just not yet. The developer does mention more updates are on the way, so hopefully extra gameplay is added… but like I mentioned, if you have a kid, this could be a hot item.

If you’d like to see more of the game in action, jump over to jojopets YouTube channel.