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Tap The Frog 2

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You can't accuse Tap The Frog 2 of false advertising. It's packed full of the little green buggers, and over the course of its 11 varied mini-games you'll engage in so much insidiously infectious tapping that you'll wear your fingerprints away.

It's not that there's anything particularly revelatory about Tap The Frog 2. In fact, it's a distinctly familiar collection of inconsequential mini-games, albeit one with an amphibian-themed twist.

One moment you're hopping on lily pads, and the next you're rocketing to the stars. Over the course of the game you'll smack frogs, paint frogs, skate frogs, feed frogs, stack frogs, and even - for some reason - prod asteroids in space.

You'll have seen most of these mini-games before in other guises, but they're all impeccably constructed here. Rules are simple, making the whole thing absurdly accessible, and there's enough subtle variation in each challenge to keep you on your toes.

Once you hop, you can't stop

It's Tap The Frog 2's finely honed scoring system that makes the whole thing so hellishly addictive, though. While you'll never have much trouble earning two or three stars in each stage, those four- and five-star prizes can be real doozies.

It's a reward system that's been polished to the point of cruelty - that elusive next star is seemingly always just out of reach, and a host of achievements keeps you diving back in for another try.

Tap The Frog 2 scores big on presentation, too, with bright, breezy visuals packed full of personality and lovely incidental details.

It might not be the most original mini-game collection out there, but unless you've played the others to death you'll probably be far too preoccupied to care.

Tap The Frog 2

Proof that originality doesn't always trump sheer design smarts. Your fingers will never know what hit them
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Matt Wales
Matt Wales
Following a lifetime of adventure on the high seas, swabbing the editorial decks of the good ship IGN and singing freelance shanties across far-flung corners of the gaming press, Matt hung up his pirate hat and turned his surf-seared gaze toward the murky mysteries of the handheld gaming world. He lives to sound the siren on the best mobile games out there, and he can't wait to get kraken.