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Given the choice, though, you’re best off playing on an iPad Pro with a control pad. Oddmar looks like a playable Disney movie. Movement is responsive and forgiving enough that you’re not likely to shatter your fancy iPhone X in frustration after hurling it across the room. Swiping the bottom left side of the screen moves you left and right, while the right side of the screen controls jumping and slashing away at obstacles or enemies with your magical weapons. The touch controls work as well as they can. The game boasts both touch controls and support from MFi controllers. No two levels look alike, and you’ll never find yourself bored. They span settings ranging from magical forests to snow-capped mountains to treacherous mines. The levels in Oddmar are appropriately varied. I’m happy to report that it does this marvelously. In other words, reinventing the wheel this isn’t!īut, then again, when the wheel works as well as it does, why try and reinvent it? Oddmar’s success doesn’t rely on bold new ideas, so much as how well it remixes and executes theses existing pieces. In each level, you contend with assorted baddies, jump over spikes, collect coin equivalents, and solve puzzles that typically involve moving something, climbing on something, or mastering the timing on something.įail to do any of these things correctly and you shoot back to the beginning of the level - or at least to the previous checkpoint.

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It’s a series of one-off levels, joined together on a map screen that spans a variety of different worlds. While the Norse setting is certainly novel, the game structure will be familiar to anyone who has ever played a Super Mario game. In Oddmar, you guide the titular Viking through 24 levels to prove yourself worthy of Valhalla, the Asgardian hall ruled over by the god Odin. Jump forward the best part of four years, and the team behind Leo’s Fortune is back. When it landed in the App Store back in 2014, Leo’s Fortune quickly became one of my favorite games of the year. Your goal was to guide a moustachio’d monster through a series of levels to win back your purloined fortune. Somehow that oddball concept became a beautifully charming game.

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