Cell & Love: The Fun of Fusion
Cell & Love is a magical game that confirms every hope for the App Store becoming fertile ground for incredible new gameplay ideas that would never gain traction elsewhere. Sometimes it’s too easy to heap hyperbole on a fresh concept just because it does something unexpected. But Cell & Love deserves its superlatives. This is one of the best games you can buy for your iPhone.
Cell & Love is a fresh new puzzler where the player has to put together cells according to 4 simple rules. I fear my gameplay description doesn’t do it justice. There is an intangible to Cell & Love. Perhaps its best described as the sensation of discovery because at some point, Cell & Love moves out of the “game” category and becomes an experience, kind of like Flower on the PS3. Since it makes you think quite a lot, it can be also considered as a kind of Brain Training for the Indies.
The mechanics behind the game may be simple, but that doesn’t mean the puzzles don’t offer up an incredible level of challenge. Cell & Love rewards your progress with new evolutions of your monsters, all of them are really funny, with its own name, it’s similar to collect Pokemons.
Cell & Love offers up a tremendous level of challenge in an “easy to learn but impossible to master” puzzler. If you’re a fan of genuinely challenging puzzle games that are about more than falling blocks, Cell & Love is $1.99 well spent.
This game is exactly what I love about the iPhone. A small time developer has a great simple idea, executes it extremely well and can put it out for me to consume and enjoy. I can’t recommend this indie style puzzle enough, it’s the first game I’ve reviewed that I think is a must buy. It’s too bad this game isn’t in the top 100 of games sold on the appstore, because it definitely should be.
