Drop Flip

In a word: Terrific! Simple design, clean graphics, solid sounds, nice colors, along with stimulating and increasingly challenging levels all make for a very fun experience. Two suggestions. First, enhance touch responsiveness overall, especially on the menu and pause screens. Second, there are times when I like to return to level one and replay through the game. When redoing the levels, it kicks me back to the level select screen instead of bringing me to the "Next Level" screen, which it does the first time through. I find it leads to an inconvenient and clunky game flow when replaying. I may be nitpicking, but I still give this game a solid five star review. If those fixes are implemented, I consider it a perfect game. I wish there were more titles like this in the App Store!

I thought I'd give this a quick try this morning (it being Christmas and all...) and found myself fascinated and mesmerized by it very rapidly. Dead simple (at first) it rewards with little jilts of serotonin and dopamine with each successful puzzle. And getting one on the first try makes you feel like a champ! Just nudge a bit here and there, flip that, move that (and sometimes, things are just simply in the way or can be ignored completely!) and be rewarded with that "bing" of the ball in the bucket! It's not really Rube Goldberg (more like a marble drop exercise), but it is great practice for physics and eyeballing things (probably like playing pool...). I can Imagine next steps being different substrates (harder or softer, or with greater or lesser rolling resistance) and objects you can rotate to any angle!

This game is so much fun that I sit down to play for "5 minutes", look up, and (oops!) an hour has flown by. I like that you may solve several puzzles in a row on the 1st or 2nd try and then randomly the next level will take you multiple attempts to solve. The difficulty level fluctuates just enough to keep you challenged without frustrating you, and I actually laugh out loud all the time at how crazily the ball will careen across the screen when I miss the bucket! It looks deceptively easy yet the nuances of the puzzles are so well thought out that you will become obsessed with moving the props a little bit higher, a little bit to the left, or flipping them over, all in an attempt to get that little ball in the bucket and advance to the next level!

First off, let me say that this app is very fun. A decent number of levels, a good variety comparing level to level, and simple easy gameplay controls. I found this game very intriguing, and found myself spending decent chunks of my time playing this game. Here’s the issue.. after only about a week (keep in mind I was grinding this game ALOT during that time) I had beaten all the levels. I really enjoyed the concept and wanted more levels to play. This all happened about 6 months ago. I assumed they would bring out an update with new levels soon enough. They never did. Now I see this app on the front page of the App Store, this is frustrating because they haven’t added levels in over a year. Overall- Great game and fun concept, but PLEASE ADD MORE LEVELS.

Logic only takes a player so far here. In a high percentage of levels luck still played a significant role. I've had to resort to my old musician's timing phrases, "One-e-and-a, Two-e-and-a…" (My fellow musicians know what I'm saying, lol.) My biggest problem is that the touch to flip an obstacle is not NEARLY sensitive enough. It says press "firmly" but come on. It shouldn't take 15 tries and give me Carpal Tunnel to rotate a triangle 90 degrees. Geesh! As for repeat play…meh. Even if players keep resetting positions - you've just seen where everything was when you open the level! Maybe if you reset then return in a week? Who's that invested? More levels needed to make this more than a few days' play. Glad it was free through Starbucks. If there were regular releases of additional levels it would be worth $2-3. Despite above it IS fun!