A twist on the classic tale, with beautiful graphics and excellent game mechanics
I can’t stop playing this one. TA: Little Red Riding Hood (the TA stands for Twisted Adventures) is a great mix of platformer and runner style games, one where you hop from rotating sphere to rotating sphere, hitting the good things and avoiding the bad things.
There are no complicated commands or rules to memorize. You tap the screen to jump. As you jump from sphere to sphere, you’ll want to collect the flowers and apples you see along the way. When you see a caged rabbit on a sphere’s surface, touch it to free it. Shadow monsters, like wolves, hornets and birds, will kill you and send you back to the beginning of the level if you touch them. The levels get progressively harder, and some are maddeningly difficult to get a perfect score on — just the way we like them to be.
While the game physics and mechanics are really good — there’s even a different gravity factor based on how fast or slow a sphere is turning — it’s the graphics that send TA: Little Red Riding Hood over the top. Done up in the popular art-style you see from titles like Don’t Starve or Badland, the graphics are beautiful, and gameplay is fluid.
It’s not the perfect game — there’s no Google Play games integration, and the lone soundtrack is a little repetitive — but it’s definitely one worth downloading if you’re into casual games on your phone or tablet. It’s also on sale for 99-cents for a limited time, so you’ve got even more incentive to give it a spin.
The Google Play link is above, and you can watch the official gameplay trailer after the break.