Lightomania delivers a fun puzzle game to the Windows Phone gaming library

Lightomania

Lightomania is a lively Windows Phone puzzle game that has you billowy and shooting fuzzy little creatures where they can gobble up a hanging light. You'll bounciness the fuzzy creatures off each other and navigate around an assortment of obstacles and dangers to get to the lite bulb.

Available for low-retentiveness devices, Lightomania is full of colorful animations and challenging puzzles to conquer. The game has seen a fair amount of success on other platforms and in playing Lightomania over the past few days; I tin see that success carrying over to the Windows Telephone version.

Lightomania Menu, Tutorial and Game Packs

Lightomania does non carp with a complicated principal carte du jour offer options to jump into game play and to access the game's settings. The settings button will reveal access to the post-obit:

The game's Facebook page
The Well-nigh screen
A button to reset your game progress
Language settings
A mute push
The how-to department

The storyline with the game has you lot controlling two fuzzy little creatures who are addicted to light and programme to steal all the light bulbs they can observe. They just need your assistance to exercise so.

Lightomania currently has 102 gaming levels that are spread across 5 gaming packs. You lot begin your gaming quest with the Tutorial Pack that has six levels of play that will get y'all acclimated with the gaming controls. Lightomania isn't a difficult game to selection upwards just has enough hurdles to overcome to continue things challenging.

Game Play

The game screen has your two fuzzy thieves placed in various locations, a few lightning bolts scattered about that need to be collected and your low-cal bulb dangling from the meridian of the screen. Across the top of the gaming screen is a hint button, a reset button and a pause button.

Lightomania Game Play

Along the lesser of the screen is your move counter and the number of lightning bolts nerveless. Collect enough lightning bolts within the motility limits and you'll earn wings and advance to the next level.

The goal of each level is to collect as many of the lightning bolts as possible and eventually have one of your fuzzy thieves consume the light bulb. You lot launch your fuzzy beast by stretching its tongue and releasing information technology like a safety ring to send it sailing beyond the game screen.

The mechanics of doing so calls on you to tap/hold your finger on ane of the creatures and slide your finger backwards. A trajectory shadow will appear to help you lot estimate your shot and when all is lined upwards, but release your finger from the screen to launch your animal.

The path to the light seedling is rarely a directly shot, requiring a little strategy on your part to utilise both fuzzy creatures to work as a team to reach your goals. The thieves can bounciness off 1 some other for added summit, you lot have sticky panels that you can bounciness to and from. There'due south even a bicycle that you tin can stick your characters to so spin them into position for the next move.

Lightomania Hint and Scoring Screen

Other obstacles to navigate effectually or to avoid include buckets that serve equally portals that will send you from one side of the screen to another, spiked platforms and stacks of soup cans that block the lite bulb.

Should you go stumped with a gaming level, the hint button volition roll a black and white video of how to solve that particular level. You get ane hint with the game and in-app purchase opportunities are available to buy more.

Overall Impression

Lightomania has a lot of things going for it and I tin understand why the game is so pop on other platforms. The puzzles are challenging, graphics and animations well drawn up and game mechanics volition non go you frustrated.

The game does remind me of the Cut The Rope series of games but the tag-team arroyo the 2 fuzzy thieves offer helps the game stand out. I also similar the modest things that help give Lightomania character such as the facial expressions on the fuzzy creatures and that they will slowly fall asleep if you lot have too long to make a motility.

All in all, Lightomania is an addictive and entertaining game that is well suited to help you pass short bits of fourth dimension with or for those occasions y'all want to spend a little more than time gaming. The trial version will let you play Lightomania through the Tutorial Pack and the first six levels of the side by side gaming pack.

Lightomania is currently rated at four.5 Stars in the Windows Telephone Store, which is spot on.

Download Lightomania for Windows Phone (Trial / $.99)

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