Tiny Wings [iOS]

There has not been a game so obsessed with curves since Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball, however, in this case it is in a completely innocent way. You play as a bird with, you guessed it, tiny wings and you must use hills as ramps to launch you into the air. All you have to do is touch the screen when you want the bird to stop flapping its wings and basically become heavy so you can slide down a hill, then when you are going up you release your finger and let the bird start flapping again. It is quite simple but it requires a lot of concentration and the game keeps you sucked in by the nest mechanic. The higher level nest you have the more points you earn but in order to to get a new nest you have to complete a set of objectives. Some objectives are as simple as fly to a certain number island, which is something you are doing anyway but they can be more complicated such as achieve fever mode five times in a run and they are made all the more difficult by the fact that you are in a race against night time. As soon as night hits your bird falls asleep and you must start all over again, flying particularly fast however lets you push back the night and enables you to keep going.

The game's style is very cutesy and if you don't like cute games this is not the game for you. Part of the charm is the cute noises the bird makes and the unrealistic (but cute) size of its wings. The cute style hides the addictive nature of the gameplay which will have you playing for hours. The game could have been made more addictive if the coins you collected did more than just add points to your score. An upgrade store would have been very cool.

It's not without it's problems though. The game gets a bit of slowdown when you cross over an island which seems very odd for such a graphically and physically simple game. When game centre boots up it will cause slowdown as well and sometimes you will swear you did a perfect slide on a hill and it will punish you, other times you will mess it up and be rewarded. Some of these have received work in patches but it never really completely resolved them.

All in all it is a great game and one that is worth challenging your friends to. It does have some problems but they are not game breaking and the simple fun that you get from it is well worth it 9/10.