The first truly great iPhone game is here!!
It's available right now on the App Store for $9.99
The gameplay itself starts very simply -- you control a little rolling guy called a Rolando by tilting the iPhone left or right. But bit by bit, Rolando adds more and more to the process -- with a swipe on the screen, your Rolando can jump, and there are things to move and press in the landscape, and you can find other Rolandos, and select multiple ones just by dragging a rectangle around them. And there are "royal spikey commandos" that will stick to things, and bombs and platforms, and shadowy bad guys to avoid, and a King and Prince to save, and, and, and... Things spiral into complexity pretty quickly, but Rolando never lets them get out of hand: the controls are flawless (there's always something you can hit or do to bring back whatever you're working on into focus, and by dragging two fingers on the screen, you can explore the levels to find a path to try), and, like the greatest platforming games, the difficulty curve lets you explore first and then excel later.
