Fruit Ninja for iPhone Provides a Surprising Amount of Fun
Recently, I was at school and noticed a friend of mine playing a game with great enthusiasm. He showed me the game he was playing – Fruit Ninja for iPhone, and recommended it to me. I immediately bought it there and then, and have had an immense amount of fun, something not expected from a game as such, especially at a mere 99 cents. In fact, I enjoyed the application so much, that I decided to show this app to you guys.
The objective of the game, as hinted by the name, is to slice a variety of fruit. However, it is not as simple as it may seem. I’ll talk about how the developer introduced some challenges a little bit later in the review.
As mentioned earlier, the objective of the game is to slice fruit. You rack up points as you go along, and it continuously gets more and more difficult as you go along. There are several ways you can lose. First off, you are given three “lives.” Basically, if you miss a fruit and it flys off the screen, you lose a life. Lose three and the game is over. However, you can earn back a life if you have lost it by doing very well for a specified amount of time.
Another way to lose the game is to slice a bomb, which occasionally flies onto the screen along with the fruit, which may confuse you and cause you to either lose the game (if you slice the bomb), or lose a life if you accidentally let a fruit fall back down without slicing it.
Point are kept as the amount of fruit continuously sliced without losing all three lives, or slicing a bomb, which immediately ends the game.
Like the game, the controls are very simple to use. To slice the fruits, you drag your finger, or multiple fingers, across the screen. This represents a knife, and in my opinion, Wolverine’s claws. As more and more fruit fly onto the screen, it’ll become much more difficult to slice all of them with only one finger. This is where the multiple fingers help. You can slice many more fruit with several fingers, or knives, going around the screen. However, the risk in using multiple fingers is the higher chance of slicing a bomb, which will end the game.
All in all, Fruit Ninja for iPhone is an incredibly entertaining game, especially for the price of 99 cents. The concept may seem silly at first, but if you actually buy the game and play it, you’ll instantly fall in love with it, as I did. It is definitely worth a look!
Our Rating: 5/5
Developer Link – Halfbrick Studios
