Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer?
Today’s free app is Helium Boy by Bertil Horberg which usually runs for $1.99. It’s a 3D platform game — think something from the Mario series — featuring a boy and his balloons doing… something. For some reason, I’m sure.
The game has some rather lovely 3D graphics, for a low-end cell phone game, anyway. What it doesn’t have are easy-to-use controls. The key gag behind Helium Boy is that he has his balloons, which give him a floaty jump. Problem being, that floaty jump is ridiculously difficult to navigate, especially from my 3″ screen. I spent most of my time playing gently floating to my grisly death. Why Helium Boy can’t use his balloons as some kind of floatation device, I have no idea, but once they hit water, they sink to the bottom, dragging Helium Boy to an oxygen-starved demise.
Or maybe I just suck at it. Either way, I don’t think the game is going to last long on my phone.
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