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Once you pop, you can’t stop

Despite offering no tactile controls, iThings are fab for Whac-a-Mole games. The ability to frantically tap the screen, rather than using some kind of analogue ‘stick’ or ‘rodent’ to move a ‘hand’ shows that, yes, iOS works far better than other systems for some types of games. This is one of them.

In fact, Bubble Pets is the best of ‘them’ and by ‘them’, we mean ‘Whac-a-Mole games’. (Weren’t you paying attention? We’re only on the intro.) This is largely because instead of aping a fairground game or having you beat to death cartoon moles with a shovel, Bubble Pets instead tasks you with rapidly tapping on pixelated cartoon animals of all kinds, living in vibrant pixelated cartoon worlds.

No dogs allowed in Pixel Park. Monkeys are fine, though. And stars MUST BE ON A LEAD.

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Craig Grannell

Universal Review


A pile of garbage

If first impressions were everything, this review would read OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS NOW *HEADEXPLOSION*. Luckily for you, Podgamer prides itself on playing games for more than thirty seconds. Stay tuned, then, for a salutory example of how quickly love at first sight can turn to PUNCHREPEATEDLYINTHEFACE hate when it comes to iOS gaming.

At this point, I loved The Incident about as much as a cute puppy doing cute puppy things.

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Craig Grannell