Test Your Brain with Two Dots
1Whimsical, addictive and a perfect way to teach the value of being patient.
Papa Panda Review:
TwoDots is colorful and bright from top to bottom. While the original Dots game had a simple look, with a white background and plain menu, TwoDots is filled with creative illustrations and playful animations in the menus and colorful backgrounds in some levels.
The game is divided into different worlds, each with its own themes on the menu screen. When you reach a new world, the game shows you an illustrated postcard introducing you to the new terrain. You start in the beginning world, which is a wall of tools and trophies that looks like it was lifted from a Wes Anderson movie. Then you move into an under-the-sea motif where you need to sink anchor dots in your levels. There's an icy tundra followed by a volcano, then a fiery forest, and a desert and so on.
TwoDots also has music for each world, and the gameplay features interactive sound effects that aren't distracting or irritating. If you're not keen on either, you can turn off the music and sounds in the settings.
Also in the settings is colorblind mode, which puts tiny symbols in each dot. I highly recommend using colorblind mode, not only because it makes the dots look cooler, but also because it makes each level much easier to see, especially when there's the occasional dark-colored background.
Playing TwoDots is quite simple: you connect two or more same-colored dots together to clear them from the screen. Like in Dots, you can make a square of dots to clear out all of that color from the field. In many levels, you'll need to make squares in order to win, so you'll want to look for every opportunity to do that as often as you can.
If there are no available moves on the screen, which happens when there are no two dots of the same color next to each other, the board automatically shuffles the dots.
For each level, there's a star rating; you earn stars by racking up points from the dots you clear. You'll see your progress at the bottom of the screen, in the progress bar, and each time you earn a star, you'll hear a short chime. You can also see your score and star rating when you complete a level.
You get the chance to earn medals for each level, but only if you connect your Facebook account. The top scores among you and your friends earn gold, silver and bronze metals.
Each day you get five lives to play as many levels as you can, and as long as you complete a level, they won't disappear. Once you fail a level, your life is gone. When you exhausted all of your lives, you need to wait 20 minutes for each life to regenerate. If you can't wait that long, you can pay 99 cents to buy a new life.
The game is very encouraging, with congratulatory messages when you beat a level and helpful tips on the loading screens. Undoubtedly this is all a ploy to keep you playing, and it works wonderfully.
What makes the game challenging are the objectives and obstacles. Each level has a clear objective, which usually means clearing a certain number of colored dots and/or clearing out obstacles. You must meet the objective in the number of moves you're given or else you fail the level and lose a life. You're told the objective at the beginning of each level, and you can see your progress at the top of the screen while you're playing.
Within each world in the game, there are new obstacles that change how you play. In the underwater world, there are anchor dots that you need to clear from the board by getting them to fall off the bottom row. In later levels, there are frozen spaces on the playing field that take three hits to clear and fire dots that spread fire to surrounding dots after each move. The fire dots are particularly annoying because they can eventually take up almost the entire playing field if you're not careful.
With a delightful design and thoughtful little details, TwoDots is a wonderful sequel that's better than the original. It's easy to get addicted to the game, with it's just-hard-enough levels and daily opportunity to earn extras.
Even the appeals for in-app purchases aren't too intrusive, and they offer enough help to get you through a tough level. I am not ashamed to admit that I've already sunk a few bucks into the game, just to get a few extra moves. If you're not already playing, download the app now.
4.5 out of 5 Pandas.
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