Squids for Windows Phone 8, an underwater adventure of tentacle proportions

Squids

Squids is a relatively new Windows Telephone 8 game that has you playing the role of diverse squids in an nether bounding main action adventure.

The story line has your team of squids in danger of an infectious black ooze that is corrupting the ocean. Naturally, it'due south your job to build a team of squids to defeat the enemies and salve the day.

Squids is a fun game that does grow on you and is a nice add-on to the Windows Phone gaming library.

The main menu for Squids has options to leap into the game, access the game's settings and view the Virtually Page. Settings cover sound and music levels plus a help department that will replay the tutorials that are offered up throughout the game.

Squids Main Menu

While Squids is an adventure game, information technology is played ane level at a time. Each level is scored the number of secrets discovered, how many squids survive, the number of turns it takes to complete a level and how many pearls you collect. Each level can be replayed to improve your score.

Game play is fairly simple. You have a number of squids to your team that varies from level to level. To move your squid only tap on the squid and slide your finger to extend their tentacles. Pivot your screen concord in the direction yous want the squid to travel and release your finger when everything is lined upwards just correct. The farther you extend the tentacles the further the squid travels.

Squids

A circle of bubbling surrounds your squid to represent that squid'southward stamina per turn. When playing a level with multiple squids, when your stamina is depleted yous shift to the next squid for motion.

Gaming levels take goals ranging from defeating enemies to finding treasure or both. Battles are conducted by simply ramming your enemy with your squids. Some squids accept special attacks that can exist used in battle and some enemies also have the special attacks. At that place's also a flake of strategy involved in that you need to stay abroad from ledges on your final move (enemies can knock you into the abyss) and sometimes information technology's best to employ your last bit of stamina to motion out of the enemies achieve.

Along the way y'all can slam into closed clams to collect pearls and fallen enemies dump pearls to collect besides. Just tap on the items to collect them. Yous also have various dangers to avert like the puffer fish that can ruin your solar day if you brand contact.

Potent currents are also present that can be tricky to navigate through. While some tin merely be over powered by a good solid fling of the squid, others have sunken anchors along the current that squids can use... well... as anchor points.

Squids Base/Store

In between levels you lot can visit the game's base campsite where you can level up your squids, conform your squad for the next level and/or visit the shop to buy upgrades with the pearls you collect.

Squids is a decent game that does grow on yous. There are a lot of transition screens with bits of the story line and tutorials that does give the game a niggling cumbersome feel. Luckily, you tin tap the screen to scroll through them and get into the activity quicker.

Animations and graphics are nice, game play challenging and overall Squids isn't a bad pick for your Windows Telephone 8 gaming library. The biggest hurdle the game has to overcome is the lack of a trial version. It only takes one or two levels to make up one's mind if Squids is for you and information technology would take been nice to come across a trial version forth those lines.

As is, Squids is currently running $1.49 and yous tin can observe it here in the Windows Phone Shop.

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