Toki Tori – iPhone game

Toki Tori is a cutesy puzzle game where you touch the screen to move the the fluffy yellow protagonist around a graphically pleasing environment, avoiding Bad Things, and collecting a number of Good Things. When you have collected all of the Good Things, some kind of wierd yellow portal appears (for reasons I have not yet fathomed), and sucks away your character, ending the level.

It’s not a bad puzzle game actually. There’s several environments, each with several levels. You are given a number of special moves per level, such as teleportation, building bridges, moving blocks, freezing bad guys, and no doubt more I’ve yet to discover. In some ways it reminds me of Lemmings. Oh how I loved Lemmings..

It’s currently only £1.19, which seems a bargain for a game that’s polished this well. It’s a small sum considering  this game has given me a good few hours of gameplay so far, and I’m only about half way through.

IGN gave this 8.5, and an editors’ choice award. I’d have to roughly agree with that; it’s definitely one of the better games I’ve played on the iPhone, but it’s just a little bit too cutesy for me.