Your starting multiplier is determined by how many of the game’s missions you complete. This is usually just running into or otherwise displacing your fellow minions, but you can also earn this bonus by wrecking things using some of the power-ups. You can build your multiplier in the game by performing Despicable Acts. Like other games of this ilk, the key to doing well in Minion Rush is to drive your multiplier as high as you can. The game is incredibly stingy with its second currency relative to how much things cost, to the point that it’s basically worthless for anything but the occasional continue. The other type of currency, tokens, sometimes appear too, but at a maximum of five per day. Additionally, there are several types of power-ups that appear, which can be additionally powered up by spending bananas. There are bananas scattered all over the place, which act as one of the game’s two currencies. Gameplay uses the familiar three-lane system, with swipes in four directions causing you to move to the next track, jump, or slide. You play as one of the cute little minion characters from the movie, trying to become employee of the year by, I guess, running very far? It’s not clear what the purpose of the run is, apart from wreaking havoc, but I doubt anyone is playing this for the story. Minion Rush does try a few things to keep the game fresh, but ultimately it leans pretty heavily on its license and just doing things generally well enough to prop it up. This is a genre that has become so overcrowded that even the licensed games are having to find ways to mix things up, at least a little bit. So, okay, Gameloft’s Despicable Me: Minion Rush (Free) is another licensed runner. Wait, I haven’t even gotten to the most interesting part yet! It turns out that the genre deemed most suitable for the use of this license is a behind the back runner! In a surprising turn of events, a games company has decided that this epic tale is a rich vein to be tapped for the medium of interactive entertainment, and has released a mobile game based on the movie. Well, as you may know, there is a new sequel out to the excellent film Despicable Me. Are you comfortable? No sharp edges around that you could injure yourself on should you pass out from the shock of what I’m about to write? Okay, good. Every reader should make sure they’re sitting down before going on in this review.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |