Official Apple Games Thread

[Yoshi]

We haven't heard from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (and subsequent 'Vanias) composer Michiru Yamane since she left Konami early this year. Good news for those of you wondering what she's been up to: we found her in a Cave!

... game. A Cave game. For iPhone. The trailer for Mushihimesama Bug Panic, after the break, reveals that Yamane provided the music for the iPhone original, alongside Mica Nozawa. Judging by the trailer and its energetic pop theme, Yamane's work is very different from her Castlevania style. As for the game, it's also a departure. It's not a shmup (for once) -- it's an action-adventure game starring Princess Reco from the shooter Mushihimesama.

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[Geen]

After debating about getting iPod Touch for the last year, I finally took the plunge and grabbed one. Holy shit, this thing is fantastic. Words with Friends, Bust A Move, Piyo Blocks 2, and Pix'n Love Rush have all been stealing all my free time. I also grabbed Chess with Friends, the Castlevania Puzzle game (Pretty neat), and Super Mega Worm (WTF. Seems to get old quickly); and tried out the demos for Angry Birds and Cut the Rope; both that I thought were pretty neat.
I skimmed back on this thread earlier today, but anything else any of you would recommend? I grabbed the demos of the Cave shooters and plan on trying them out later, since I'm sure that would be a recommendation here.

[EvilMog]

Geometry Wars, Stardunk, Ridge Racer, Metal Gear, PacMan CE, Space Invader Infinity Gene, Super Quickhook. Some I liked.

[Mzo]

Update: What a fantastic game. I mean, I would have preferred a Castlevania game I haven't played before, but this is pretty awesome and I've dumped a ton of hours on it already.

I had to restart because there's a cap at level 30. That means you can only go for a limited number of spells and my magic was all over the place. It's also better to gain a couple of levels in combat early and then ride the bosses to 30 since a boss kill is a level up no matter how close or far you were in XP. If you can get to level 12 before the Doppleganger10 fight you're good to go.

Best spells are Shadow and Water. You get Soul Steal which is spammable and heals you in combat, Dark Metamorphosis which makes the blood blocks drop more often for like 10 secs and gets you out of any tough spot quickly, Time Freeze which sucks, but then you get Blizzard so the enemies only get inactive blocks for a few turns. Big combo + Blizzard means dead everything.

[AaronChance]

I skimmed back on this thread earlier today, but anything else any of you would recommend? I grabbed the demos of the Cave shooters and plan on trying them out later, since I'm sure that would be a recommendation here.

Download the appshopper app, and set it to notify you of game price drops. You'll be rolling in free/cheap games in no time.

[Josh]

GeoDefense, GeoDefense Swarm, Space Station something or other too.

[Geen]

Awesome. Thanks for the games suggestions.
Also thanks for the tip on the appshopper app!

[JM]

Esp Galuda and Dodonpachi are highly recommended, touch controls for these games works better than you would ever imagine. Also, if you enjoy tower defense games, get Geo Defense. It is still the best tower defense game on the iPhone/iPod touch, and I have tried entirely too many of them. (Swarm is good too, but it is more of an open field type, and I just prefer set path more.)

I also enjoyed:

SI- Infinity Gene
Peggle
Space Miner
Sigma
Shibuya
Osmos
Icarus X
Plants Vs. Zombies
Defender's Chronicles
Hook Champ & Super Quick Hook
Bit pilot
angry birds (most content for $.99 ever)

Be sure to DL the Epic Citadel. It's free and a pretty amazing tech demo.

[Josh]

Plants vs Zombies is awesome, but it's better on the 360, or the PC. You're right on point about GeoDefense. It never gets old.

[JM]

Plants vs Zombies is awesome, but it's better on the 360, or the PC.

Yeah, I'm sure it is, but I bought it on iPhone waay before the 360 game came out. I thought about getting it on mac, but I really never use my computer for games. It is just a good game for killing time on lunch breaks and what not. I recently started another playthrough and was pleasantly surprised that it ups the difficulty, there is a lot more replay value than I thought.