Granny in Paradise Review

Costas Stephanides’s Review

Nothing to do with milfs (or gilfs!?)

Being avid film buffs, we do like to throw the occassional movie review here at Mobile Game Faqs. Can I assure you that Granny In Paradise is not one of our forays into adult film reviews but the latest game to be coming out of Scottish developers, Tag Games.

We highlighted Tag's previous casual game Rock 'n' Roll a few weeks back and tbe guys are back to give us a look at their new casual game based on the successful web based game.

Granny In Paradise is a platform game and has a very retro feel and harks back to the original Donkey Kong days. As we all know, grannies like their pussycats and the levels are spent trying to gather the cats and take them back home. The levels are awash with ladders and floating platforms. The difficulty is well pitched and Granny in Paradise is, for the most part, a casual, easy going game.

As with all good platform games, you gotta have a baddie. Here we have a tribal warrior who will take one of your lives at the merest touch and probably take your Giro as well. Try your best to avoid him but if you are quick, you can press 5 and dig a hole for him to fall into. You can also add insult to injury and use him as a stepping stone while he's buried. Be careful as the enemy will eventually respawn. Apart from the tribesman, Granny is pretty indestructible so feel free to leap off the highest platform.

As you progress through the levels, more and more objects are available to aid you in your quest. Umbrellas can be used to help you float to a far away platform. The number of special items steadily increases and creates a little incentive to keep playing. Each of the items has a 30 second time limit but they do respawn so real stresses here. There are 30 levels in total and as your progress is automatically saved, the whole game has a rather relaxed feel.

The concept and style work well for a free web based game meant as a perfect antidote to work. However, I'm not too sure the experience would be quite so gratifying if I had spent good money on this and it proves that not every game is worthy of porting from the PC to the mobile. There is nothing wrong with the mobile development but just that the mindlessness of it all is a little too mindless.