As far as we're concerned, riding the crest of a procedurally generated musical wave on your iOS device sounds like a perfectly reasonable starting point for a score-focused sort-of-endless runner.
Unfortunately, Wave Crasher utterly fails to develop its intriguing core in any meaningful direction. As your jet skier rockets to the right, you're charged with moving your musically manifested wave up or down in a grab for coins, stringing together combo multipliers for juicier points.
As you might expect, the rockier your tuneful selection is, the rougher the waters you ride.
In practice, though, this musical element adds nothing to an already anaemic setup – a wave is a wave when all you're doing is bounding skyward to collect your spoils.
There's mild satisfaction to be gained from the undulating waves and pleasant presentation, but with no leaderboards and zero variation in environments or game mechanics Wave Crasher has shown you everything it has to offer in a matter of seconds.
Wave Crasher
While procedurally generated endless racing sounds great in principle, tedious repetition quickly sinks Wave Crasher
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.