Mutatis 9+

Okay I’ve started to play this game and it’s fun! I immediately just started for maybe 10 minutes after it downloaded I think and I think it’s a nice app. Once I started playing I thought it was interesting. I love how this app kinda connects with real life, it’s a bit weird but that’s a part of the game! The enemies or monsters depend on your phone and controls, and when I turned my sound off a different monster or enemy was there, I think that’s kinda cool. Depending on your battery life, sound, brightness of the game, will change everything. Also I believe 100% battery life gives you 4 hearts or something so I recommend your phone should be at 100% Anyway sorry if this ain’t a really informative review, I just wanted to share a little nice feedback! Whoever reads this I hope you have a lovely day! Peace.

I was super excited for this game, thinking it would be something cool and procedural like Res or LUMINES, but it’s really just a bland Asteroids. It kind of feels like a start of someone’s school project. I’ve played quite a bit and only seen maybe 10 different enemies and exactly 1 power up that you have to awkwardly turn your phone to use. The controls are kind of weird also, like the ship doesn’t follow your thumb, it follows an invisible ball under your thumb, so it moves around a lot more than you move your finger and it’s kind of disorienting. It wouldn’t have been hard to put alternate controls. It feels like they kind of ran out of imagination after the step where they thought to use different statuses of your phone, like battery to determine the conditions of the game. Of course there is a watch ads option to continue when you die and I have never felt like watching one because I never feel like I’ve progressed enough to bother. Even when you defeat a boss, the level doesn’t change and neither do the enemies. There are plenty of other space shooter games out there that let you actually unlock different ships and powers so you can feel like there is a point to playing rather than a high score chase. It isn’t really a bad game, but it isn’t amazing either, hence my perfectly average score for a bland cardboard game.

I have never before seen an app anything like this. I’ve only played a little, but the way it uses every function of your phone is amazing. Battery life changes how many lives you get, screenshot to find out about enemies, increase or decrease volume or brightness to change the enemies you see and what they do, it’s amazing. So far it seems there isn’t much progression here, that’s all I ask for. Concept is fantastic.