Super Yum Yum 3

What I could do with here are some clever statistics about how many girl gamers there are in iPhone World. The kind of stats that get rolled out all the time for the DS. Something along the lines of “46 per cent of female gamers are women, and more the 47 per cent of those use an iPod touch to play their iPhone games”.

Then, you see, we could talk about how the chicks dig these cutesy, colourful, big eyed baby dragon type games, and how AirPlay is catering for one of the iPhone’s fastest growing demographics.

We can soldier on without those statistics, but they’d help put you in the right frame of mind for what to expect from Super Yum Yum 3.

Okay, this is a superb game, but there’s enough sugar on top to give you diabetes. It’s like the universe is balancing out the number of hyper-violent games already out there with a single, super-mega-saccharine iPhone game.

There’s a delicious bit of social commentary at the beginning, when Leon the Chameleon leaves his kids home alone and swans off down the disco. While he’s out spanking the planks and shunning his parental duties, a fat fruit monster happens upon his tree house, hoovers up all the fruit and Leon’s kids along with it.

That’s where you come in, as you take control of Leon (before Social Services gets involved) and set about eating your way through a host of intriguing puzzles to rescue the young ‘uns.

Each level is a kind of maze without walls, which initially makes things seem rather haphazard. Your route is generally blocked by various types of fruit, and the only way through these loose labyrinths (picking up the dustbin lids - kids - along the way) is by eating your way to freedom.

Each piece of obstructive fruit has two elements: the fruit itself, and the leaves. Leon can only eat fruit that’s the same colour he is, so finding your way through the level means ensuring Leon is the correct colour to eat the next piece of produce.

Each time he gobbles down the fruit, his skin changes to the same colour as the leaves (not the flesh, however), so the game essentially boils down to figuring out which order to eat your way through the mazes. It’s kind of baffling at first, but after a couple of levels Super Yum Yum 3’s mechanics quickly fall into place.

Leon immediately dashes to whichever point on the screen that you touch, so long as nothing is blocking his path. This makes the controls wonderfully easy, as there’s no fiddling with a nonexistent D-pad or trying to align him with a couple of stairs to get him to move.

Rescuing all the kids on each level and eating every last bit of fruit becomes quite a mind boggling challenge - though rarely frustrating - and although the game could do with some kind of indication as to when you’ve eaten yourself into a corner, it’s as addictive as a giant strawberry grown in a poppy field.

Dudes should be warned that it goes a little overboard in terms of its kitsch-ness, however, and some serious street cred could go up the spout if you’re spotted playing this one on the train. Playing it in private, however, will bring you hours of joy.