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Glint - HD

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If you take one piece of advice from this review, I hope it's this: don't play Glint on public transport.

The reasons are twofold. First, the sheer physical exertion you put into some of the levels mean you'll either nudge someone accidentally, or be regarded as something of a lunatic by your fellow passengers.

Secondly, the game is so frustrating sometimes that it's highly likely you'll find yourself inadvertently punching other humans if there are any around you when you play. I'd like to punch some right now myself.

Colourful fruit

The game blends aspects of colour-matching puzzlers and slashy Fruit Ninja-style games to create something pretty unique. Coloured balls cascade into a funnel and you need to hack them out in bunches of the same hue before they overwhelm the screen and it's game over.

You don't have to avoid other colours while you do, and your chains are limited only by the number of balls there are on the screen. Clear some away and another bunch tumble down to take their place.

Each level of the game sets you a different task. To begin with you're just clearing out balls to score points, but then the game adds a time limit, then double balls that can be either colour. Then it throws a tilt mechanic into play.

It keeps things fresh, but there are definite difficulty spikes at the end of each world when the game can become infuriatingly tough.

It's painfully strict as well, punishing you as soon as your time runs out even if a life-saving bubble of extra seconds is in the jaws of the gap at the bottom of the screen that refills your counter.

Total glint

When Glint gets things right it gets them very right. It's one of the freshest feeling puzzlers on the App Store in a while, and the frantic nature of the swiping is enough to get the pulse racing.

But sometimes it does take things too far, and you're left chuntering under your breath as you fail your fiftieth attempt at finishing a level.

If you've got a good deal of patience then you'll find an entertaining game here. Just be ready to put it down and walk away from time to time and you'll get along just fine.

Glint - HD

Sometimes great, sometimes hateful, Glint at least manages to be interesting all the time
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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.