Apple’s 2008 Best iPhone Game Winner:
Enigmo by Pangea Software. Engimo is a 3D puzzle game in which “players construct mechanisms to direct flowing water, plasma and laser beams so that they can reach their final destination”.
And a winner for good reason. Enigmo is a marvelously designed game, perfect for the iPhone and perfect for the pocket. The aim: direct flowing water, lava or oil into their respective containers using rotatable bumpers and slides and surfaces in the game.
Sound easy? With 50 levels, some are, some aren’t. How about frickin’ laser forcefields? Particle emitters? Sponges that…sponge? Bouncing water droplets around a map, firing them into space and precision landing them into their containers. Using variations, combinations and machinations of these items you can bounce, slide and project liquids across the puzzle to their highly dramatic “final destination”. Finishing puzzles faster gets you more bonus and finishing puzzles with items unused gives you even more delicious, water droplet bonus!
Enigmo isn’t limited by a few repeatable puzzles. Users can make their own puzzles for iPhone and iPod Touch users with Mac or PC versions of Enigmo. Particularly good ones may even be included in future versions of Enigmo. The ability to make your own puzzles (or just download and play them) is a wonderful touch to an already stellar game. Factor in the ability to pause and save your games (unlike some iPhone games - Super Monkey Ball, I’m looking at you), Enigmo is a great game to fill the long, empty minutes between going to the toilet and leaving.
It’s true, Enigmo doesn’t have a traditional soundtrack. By using the sounds of the various items and bouncing water droplets as a soundtrack, you have an unusual and original soundtrack every time you play a puzzle. As my friends said when they heard the genius of Enigmo - “that sounds cool!”. And it does sound cool. Super frickin’ laser sponge droplet cool.
Highly, highly recommended. In fact, I’m thinking there should be some kind of giant Enigmo Olympics in the future. The British fighting against the Chinese to solve a huge, real life Enigmo puzzle. Real lava? Huge, elaborate bumper mechanisms? Anyone?
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