Suited Up

Forget flying around like Iron Man, or punching through walls like Robocop. What you really want a robotically enhanced suit for is jumping really high.

Er, right guys?

That's what the protagonist of Suited Up can do, anyway. Shelf stackers of the world beware.

These snazzy robo-legs also mean that you can look forward to dozens of levels of one-touch platform-puzzling.

While it looks like a traditional 2D platformer from the screenshots, you don't walk anywhere in Suited Up. Similarly, there is no 'jump' button as such.

Rather, you must select the precise apex point for your character's next leap forward. The skill comes from judging what that means for your jump's arc.

Will you land on some spikes? Will you collide with a suspended beam and fall off the screen?

It's an interesting control system, but one that's also a little clunky. It can be difficult to pick out a precise point, at least on the iPhone, and shallow jumps are a bit of a chore to activate.

Another thing that can be filed under "interesting idea, annoying in practice" is the way Suited Up encourages you to turn your phone to get a new perspective on a level.

If you can't see the level exit, or where you're meant to be jumping to, you can rotate your device to landscape view (and back again). It sounds like a neat new mechanic, but it actually grows quite tiresome moving your phone around all the time.

It also means that you rarely have an ideal view of anything, which isn't helped by a complete lack of zoom and pan controls.

As a knock-on effect of all these little issues, Suited Up's stiff difficulty level is all the more irritating.

We're all for a bit of a challenge in our games, so long as the process of trying and failing repeatedly is sufficiently fun. Here, it's not.

There's a level creation facility for those who have the inclination to do such things, but again - when the core mechanics of play are lacking, you probably won't feel inclined to spend hours labouring over new content. I certainly didn't.

Suited Up might seem to be quite a bold jump into the unknown, but we'd recommend looking before you leap into a purchase.