Welcome to the first of possibly many Tuesday Best Ofs. In this potentially ongoing feature I’m going to look at slightly obscure genres and give you three recommendations that I think you need to try out.
This week we’re looking at super tough platformers. I’m not talking nice and easy platformers. I’m talking SUPER TOUGH. The sort of platformers that make you wish platformers had never been invented.
Hopefully there’ll be something you haven’t played in my three picks. And if you’ve got things you’d like to suggest yourself, feel free to whack them in the comments below. Because sharing is caring, and here at AppSpy we definitely care.
League of Evil 2
There’s some argument to be had here about how League of Evil 3 is the better game. But I’ll be honest, I think it was too hard. Like, it just punched you in the face straight away. Where League of Evil 2 gets a few kidney shots in to get things going.
Whichever you think is better, these are pretty much the archetypal made-for-mobile super hard platformers. Bite-sized levels, extra challenges for the brave, and a surprising amount of blood and gore when you end up caught on a circular saw.
Kid Tripp
Kid Tripp is probably one of the finest piece of mobile platforming design you’re ever likely to see. Its tiny levels require the sort of precision and muscle memory that few possess. And you’re still going to bash your face into them until you get it right.
It might be an auto-runner, its levels might only last a handful of seconds once you’ve figured them out, but this remains one of the toughest, most sadistic platform games you can get on the App Store.
Hopiko
A beautifully manic platformer with an art style designed to make your eyes bleed and some of the toughest, finger-breakingest challenges this side of that imaginary challenge where you have to break your fingers.
There’s a simple, elegant beauty to Hopiko’s cruelty. It’s like a slumbering tiger. A slumbering neon tiger. A slumbering neon tiger that will literally bite your face off if you go anywhere near it. And you are going to go near it, because you can’t help yourself.
