But Pizza vs. Skeletons is full of lovely touches, like the Wheel of Pizza at the end of each level, the way you smash padlocks with frantic taps when a new world's unlocked, and the sheer quality.
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Every so often a game comes along that is a genuine surprise. Skeletons is one such game, because out of what is surely the most terrible concept in the world some crazed team has crafted an imaginative and fun game with seriously classy production values.
I'm as shocked as you.Tilt controls move a pizza that covers about a third of the screen left and right, and tapping makes it jump. In the first levels there are many skeletons, and your initial task is simply to roll around and crush their bones under a ton of cheesy dough - the skeletons have diddly little spears which they prod in your general direction, but it takes many blows to down the pizza.This is all accompanied by totally OTT pseudo-organ music that heavily channels Plants vs. Zombies' superb soundtrack, and great bone-cracking effects as legions of the undead are ground into dust. But after a few brief acclimatisers, Pizzas vs. Skeletons takes off, suddenly throwing a barrage of ideas at its rotund hero and seeing what sticks.A double-tap sends your pizza hurtling towards the ground, but injudicious use brings about many sad deaths.Most of these are great, particularly the downhill racing sequences. It's not so much that the ideas are entirely fresh, but the game is smartly redesigned around each one. The camera is zoomed back from the pizza in these downhill chases, for example, and coins are used to mark out a path and warn of upcoming jumps - accompanied by a jangly collection sound that becomes your sole focus.Other levels have you rolling through platforming sections to rescue puppies and deliver them home, or bouncing back and forth on narrow space trampolines while sending skulls spinning into the void.
In the latter you can build up ideal little rhythms while bouncing back and forth, clearing it with full marks no problem, or you can get winged by a fireball and everything starts going wrong. Price and Availability. Platform: iOS. Price: £1.99 (iOS).All of Pizza vs. Skeletons' challenges ramp up in this way, with new elements added constantly to give you another headache.
The plain old 'roll into skeletons' sections soon have giant zombies throwing their heads, gargoyles dive-bombing from the wings, and little bastard hedgehogs that need to be flipped over before being smashed. The bosses get better and better - big sumo fights between a pizza and a giant skull that can be entirely changed by something as simple as a lip at the edge of the arena.The final touch is letting you customise the pizza because, let's face it, a moon with a hat on beats junk food every time. But Pizza vs. Skeletons is full of lovely touches, like the Wheel of Pizza at the end of each level, the way you smash padlocks with frantic taps when a new world's unlocked, and the sheer quality of its production. Skeletons is a surprise indeed, one of the best kind: it's a game about pizzas fighting skeletons that's real fun with outstanding art direction.
You couldn't make it up.
Skeletons is a big, ridiculous, 2D platform game designed from the ground up for iOS. You control a 25 foot tall pizza as it battles a horde of undead rivals on land, sea, and in outer space. Skeletons was Apple’s iPhone Game of the Week on February 16, 2012.120 levels loaded with varietyThree distinct challenges in each levelDozens of types of enemiesHuge bosses12 vastly different worldsCustomize your pizza in a quarter million waysUniversal build: Buy once, play on all your iOS 5 devicesNow in W I D E S C R E E N for iPhone 5Never Get BoredWe’ve done everything we can to pack as much variety as we can into Pizza’s 100 120 levels. You’ll do everything from smashing through the great pyramids, to pulverizing robots, to rescuing puppies. Every level is a new experience. Not a Casual GameWe made this game for people looking for a new twist on classic platform games.
If you only like “Match 3” and “Hidden Object” games, this one’s not for you. Pizza’s 100 120 levels are each a bite-sized mission with three tiers of challenge, and they can get pretty tough! Let Your Freak Flag FlyIf controlling a gigantic pizza isn’t enough for you, you can customize your pie with a slew of “ingredients” that you unlock throughout the game. Want a mohawk and a hawk’s beak? Powdered wig and braces? Peanut butter sandwich with a cyclops eye and an ant’s mouth? There are over a quarter million ways to build your own pizza and show those skeletons who’s boss!
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(With more coming in future updates!) Our Promise to YouNo ads. No getting suckered into buying more stuff later. The whole game, for one price, for all updates, forever.Overall, Pizza Vs. Skeletons is Riverman’s biggest, wildest, weirdest, and most fun game yet. On one hand it’s an ode to all the classic NES and SNES era game we all loved as kids. But it’s also got tons of new stuff that has never been put into a game before, with mechanics carefully crafted for iOS. Check it out if you’ve got a hankering for something completely different on your iPhone or iPad!
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