Holy feathered kerfluffles! The foul-tempered fowl of "Angry Birds" have been unseated from their perch atop Apple's App Store charts by … an adorable monster with an insatiable appetite for candy.
Om Nom — the aforementioned monster — is the star of a new iPhone/iPad game called "Cut the Rope." The game has just passed the 1 million download mark ... after only nine days in the App Store.
This makes it the fastest million-selling App Store game to date, says a spokesperson from the game's publisher Chillingo (the company that also happens to have published "Angry Birds").
Meanwhile, at this writing, "Cut the Rope" is sitting in the No. 1 spot atop all but one of the App Store's charts, including both the top selling and top free apps, thanks to a lite version you can try before buying the 99 cent iPhone version or before purchasing the $1.99 HD iPad version (my favorite).
All this chart topping and record breaking is no wonder really. This adorable and utterly addictive puzzle game is simply awesome.
Like "Angry Birds," "Cut the Rope" is endearingly zany. Created by the Moscow-based indie developers at ZeptoLab, it worms its way into your heart with seemingly simple physics-based puzzling that's easy to jump into but a bitch to conquer.
As the name implies, the game tasks you with cutting ropes. These ropes are attached to candy. And this candy needs to be delivered to the mouth of that candy-craving monster Om Nom.
To cut the various ropes that keep the candy away from Om Nom, you'll simply swipe your finger across the touch screen. But that's just the beginning.
The deal is, you don't just want to drop the candy into Om Nom's mouth, you also want to snag some stars placed around each level as you go. (It's always stars, isn't it?) And while the levels start out simple enough, they get more complex and challenging as you go.
The game tosses things like spiked walls in your way and greedy spiders that will run off with the candy if you don't move quickly enough. You'll use items like floating bubbles and whoopee cushion air blowers to help guide the candy safely around these obstacles and into Om Nom's toothy chomper.
Like "Angry Birds" — which has spent much of the last several months dominating the App Store charts — "Cut the Rope" is bright and beautifully designed. The levels are so smartly crafted you'll find yourself sucked right into the game, enjoying every minute as your brain works overtime trying to figure out how to successfully deliver the candy.
"Cut the Rope" is a treat of a game. And once you get a taste you'll be much like Om Nom himself: hungry for more.
Source: msnbc
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