If you’re looking for a fast-paced, nail-biting adventure, this isn’t it. Sneaking around, hiding in barrels, and crawling through pipes is fun, but the pace of the game is very slow. Quite often, your interactions with objects you’re not meant to interact with (quite yet, at least) are accompanied by humorous animations – I grew particularly fond of half mounting a horse before repeatedly getting kicked back by the animal. The short levels make each level feel like an isolated episode or skit. The game is easy to pick up and play for any level of gamer, but you’ll have a different experience, depending on your level of patience. Sure, you can trick the sensors into thinking you’re actually doing yoga while you’re sitting on the couch, but that’s kind of missing the point. It’s not the most efficient way, and it’s akin to the Wii Remote cheats posted all over YouTube. Like the perennial mobile favorite Angry Birds, you can earn up to three stars in each level.ĥ Ants does a great job of varying the difficulty required to solve each puzzle in Tiny Thief, but like many point-and-click adventures, you’re often able to complete a level using the brute-force method of tapping random objects all over the screen. Each stolen item (or each time you recover your ferret companion) grants you another star.
These simple controls make for an intuitive playing experience as you guide your small swindler stealthily through the objectives of each level, which stay pretty consistent: distract the guards, sneak past them, and steal up to three items.
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You tap anywhere on the screen to move where you want to go, and a button appears as you pass certain objects, signaling you to tap your Android screen to interact with the object. Each level takes place on a static, unmovable screen. The mechanics in Tiny Thief are a mash-up of Donkey Kong and Metal Gear. Despite the weak plot, there’s still plenty of fun to be had with this pint-sized pirate. As you progress through the game, it’s best not to think about how stealing a picnic basket or a piece of smelly cheese will help you rescue a princess – instead, focus on the Assassin’s Creed-style espionage.
The original Super Mario Bros didn’t have much more going for it either. The Mario-esque plot is quite thin, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In Tiny Thief, you control a thief (known only as Tiny Thief) in a medieval adventure who sets out with his ferret companion to save a princess and live happily ever after. It’s not all bleak, though – out of the chaos comes Tiny Thief, a point-and-click stealth platformer from developer 5 Ants from Barcelona publishing through Rovio Stars Ltd. This free-for-all environment allows for unscrupulous apps to transform your smartphone or tablet into a puny pilferer. Often these games are unfinished, and it’s the player that suffers. The entertainment value of many games has been lost amidst greedy investors and developers looking to squeeze money from consumers by inundating us with ads or forcing us to pay extra money in-app purchases. For every classic game (i.e Dead Trigger), there’s a dozen clones. The open-sourced nature of Android’s marketplace opened the floodgates for a bevy of glitchy, half-hearted, digital billboards disguised as apps and games.