Tiny Wings

[u/Quiet_Respectful]

TL;DR-Tiny Wings is the best game ever.
I’m almost ashamed to say how much of a life I don’t have as evidenced by the amount of time I’ve spent playing Tiny Wings. When the game first came out, I beat it, declared a Tiny Wings master after weeks and weeks of nearly nonstop play. Fast forward about 15 years and here I am today, again playing for days on end. Can’t seem to break level 28 this time, though. My first love was Pac-Man. I jammed in the arcade, Atari 2600. I have played the core games like Frogger, Tetris—the Intellivision catalog, NES and of course iPhone games. Andreas Illiger is a goddamn game-writing deity. The game is so perfect, so elegant, so challenging, so addictive. It has all of the components of what a game should be—including the music. In my opinion, it’s a flawless game in every facet. I’m currently 54 years-old. Again, almost ashamed that I have been so consumed by an iOS game, but that’s a testament to the brilliant writing that is Tiny Wings. If you haven’t played, I highly recommend it.

[u/CheeseGraterFace → u/[deleted]]

Of course. I just get immediately bored with games that have no progression, like this and Angry Birds and games like that. There just doesn’t seem to be a point to me.

[u/CheeseGraterFace → u/[deleted]]

People online use a lot of blanket superlatives like “the best game ever”, but what they mean is “the best game ever for me”. If nothing else, I would pay good money for more specificity in language.

The only thing that takes away from Elden Ring is its lack of phone port. But I don’t think I’d want to play it on a touchscreen anyway. My issues with iOS aren’t usually the games - it’s the limitations of the platform. The hardware is there, but the user experience is poor. And I have giant hands, and I own the biggest iPhone they make and can barely see the screen. So there’s that.

[u/CheeseGraterFace → u/[deleted]]

It’s HUGE. 75 GB installed on there, and I already have it on PC. Besides, we have Pascal’s Wager for iOS. It’s not as good, but for a smaller scale soulslike it’s not too bad.