It has a really cute art style, but it would definitely benefit from being enhanced with Retina Display support to make it stand out more. While the gameplay is interesting and fun, there are a few small things I feel could be better about Burn the Rope.
The levels get fiendishly clever and complex the farther you go, and it will be a real challenge for anyone to attain gold medals on all 80 of them.
#Burn the rope app review series#
In this way, Burn the Rope has more in common with the Zen Bound series than any other game I can think of. I don’t normally like having to twist and turn my device around to play a game, but it doesn’t bother me in Burn the Rope because the motions are mostly subtle, and there’s an almost hypnotic feeling to slowly turning your device in your hands as you follow the flame along the rope. Finally there are spiders that will shoot out a string of web when burned, enabling you to reach portions of the rope picture that would normally be inaccessible as they aren’t connected to the rest of the picture.
There can also be colored beetles crawling in some levels that add to your level completion percentage when burned, but again your flame must match their color in order for it to count. Some levels contain pictures with portions made out of colored rope, so you have to strategically burn the correct colored ant to change your flame to the same color as the rope you’re trying to burn. Different colored ants will change the color of your flame if you burn them up. Torching at least 60% of a puzzle will net you a bronze medal, 80% for a silver, and the entire 100% will land you a gold medal.Īs you progress in the game, bugs will begin to appear in the levels crawling along the rope. It’s possible to have multiple flames burning the picture at once if you can keep them all pointing upwards, but once a flame sits stagnant sideways or downwards for too long it will burn out. The flames that ignite will only burn upwards, so you must spin your device around as the rope burns to keep the flame always moving up. The basics of Burn the Rope involve touching a single point of the rope design to start a flame burning. There are a couple minor annoyances about Burn the Rope, but the core gameplay is engaging and there’s enough content in the game to keep you busy for some time. Various insects and spiders affect how you’re able to burn the rope, and the 80 levels contained in the game get increasingly more difficult and complex as you go. It’s actually a completely unique kind of puzzle game that tasks you with burning a design made out of rope by igniting just one point of the picture and guiding the flame, earning a medal based on the percentage of the entire picture that you burn. It starts easily enough, with different medals awarded for burning away the most rope, but quickly changes pace with increasingly elaborate rope designs, as well as sections that must be ignited by burning a certain bug to alter the color of the flame.I know what you’re thinking, but despite the name, Big Blue Bubble‘s newest iOS game Burn the Rope has nothing to do with the popular title Cut the Rope. You'll touch anywhere to ignite the rope, with the flame moving in all applicable directions from the point of ignition, and then rotate the rope design with your fingers to keep the flames moving upwards. It is, however, a pretty interesting little puzzler that works well with a touch screen interface, and after a strong debut on iPhone a few months back, it's nice to finally be able to play this on the iPad via the new HD iteration, which delivers more than 100 stages with increasingly distinct challenges.īurn the Rope's simple concept isn't tough to decipher: in each stage, you're given a rope-based design to burn – sometimes crawling with colorful bugs – and your goal is to burn as much of it as you can without the flame fading out. Despite similar naming conventions, Burn the Rope HD owes nothing to iOS sensation Cut the Rope nor is it related in any way to beloved Flash game You Have to Burn the Rope.
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