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The animations are beautiful, such as the sight of a frightened bit-art deer rushing off into the trees. Sword & Sworcery's 8-bit aesthetic is stunning, especially when it's contrasted with lighting techniques from a few decades later. I cannot speak highly enough about the retro art used here. It's how all of the elements come together. There are other point-and-click adventures on the App Store, though, so what makes Sword & Sworcery stand so much taller? Let me circle back to the beginning of the review. But don't ruin it if you can help it.) Stunning. Yeah, something's different… (Now, you can tweak your device clock to trick the game into thinking you've reached the next full or new moon. So, if you grab it tomorrow from the App Store and play to the first big boss battle – which is really cool – wait until the new moon and start Sword & Sworcery again. Just know that once you beat the first major boss, not much happens until the next phase of the lunar cycle. Here's something I don't want to spoil too much because it's so neat. Finally, Sword & Sworcery actually uses the lunar cycle to unlock the last two game events. However, it feels smooth and natural with a smaller device. I wasn't nuts about twisting and turning the iPad to play the original version, especially when 90-percent is played in landscape mode. They work well to break up the adventure. These are timing contests, not actual brawls. When you encounter an enemy, rotating the iPad into portrait drops into fight mode, complete with two virtual buttons at the button of the screen for raising a shield or slashing with a sword. Sword & Sworcery does have a little combat, too. I could do with a little less abstractness in the puzzle department, as those are the moments Sword & Sworcery flirts with being too cute by half. Now, some of the puzzles are a tad too obtuse and I confess that every once in a while, solutions were discovered by just poking around the screen (such as when I finished finding five little water sprites and then needed to somehow activate some magical staff). It relies on poking around beautiful scenery, looking for clues to advance the story as well as solve a series of puzzles.

But the core game here is a fantastic throwback to point-and-click adventures.

Sounds a little artsy-fartsy, right? If Sword & Sworcery didn't have a good adventure to back it up, I'd enjoy it more as an experiment in sight and sound, and then move on to the next game.

Instal the new version for ipod Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon