Super Slyder is one great puzzle game brought to Android platform with the help of OpenFeint; the game is also integrated with this service and you can compete with many players around the world on global leader-score board. The game is pretty fun puzzle game, you have to control your Slyder by tilting your device. Since I’m a big fan of puzzle games, I decided to review it once I heard the news of OpenFeint porting it to Android.
To solve puzzle, you need to navigate Slyder to the green portal, which is not always as easy as it sounds. Slyder only stops when he hits a wall, so you have to find a way. But the game is not that simple, there are plenty of help and plenty of danger for Slyder. You control in which direction will Slyder slide (as well as dummies, enemies and rollers) by tilting your device. While calibration occurs every level, and you have handy button to calibrate at any point of the stage, I still think there should be option to choose some other controls, swiping your finger would be easier I guess.
There are ceilings that hide something that is underneath them, keys that open certain walls, pits – and Slyder doesn’t like pits! Gun that will slow him down, dummies that will help him, and move around in the same direction as he, and dangerous enemies. There are vertical and horizontal rollers, there are death rollers. Don’t let screenshots in this review fool you – levels are very complex and sophisticated, those are just from the tutorial that gets you familiar with all the available objects. Some levels you will have more than one Slyder to send home.
If all of the above sounds confusing – it’s pretty simple once you complete in-game tutorial that was composed in such a manner that makes you familiar with every aspect of the game and make you fluent in solving puzzle.
What I like:
- Great, simple puzzle twisted with many different elements that make it fun
- OpenFeint integrated
- For $1 it’s a steal!
What I dislike:
- Tutorial while great, takes some time
- I didn’t like controls much, sometimes I did turn that I didn’t intend to do
- Absence of free version
