
The only thing that really hampers the experience is the constant loading screens that pop up after every single level. Though Save Toshi is not a very long game (there are only five stages with about twenty levels each), for the price it is a fun time-waster, especially if you are missing your puzzle fix after the last Angry Birds update. Each responds differently when you throw something at it, and the game makes it so that you often know which items to hit, but the order of operations becomes the real brain teaser. These objects include plastic, concrete, wood, rubber, and ice. The game features fairly basic environments, but you'll be armed with only a slingshot with which to manipulate objects around Toshi. Sure, the premise is a little flimsy, but as a physics-based puzzler, Save Toshi is ridiculously fun. You see, Toshi has a big problem she has forgotten how to walk! It's up to you to use objects in her environment to push, slide, and catapult Toshi to her final destination: the dance floor! However, all is not wonderful in her pink plastic world of celebrity. Especially those hankering for a little StarCraft-lite action. Until it gets attacked, that is.Īlthough Starfront has a high pricetag (and requires an in-app purchase to unlock instead of just an App Store purchase), the three full campaign modes and plethora of content in the actual app makes this a must-have for RTS fans.

Again, like the other "Star" game that inspired it, Starfront uses a mining system that passively collects raw materials. Scurrying around the screen building and deploying units will make up 90% of your time in-game, but you will also need to mine for resources, as enemy units don't just drop the good stuff in Starfront. The parallels between the two games must have been intentional, as the game features a grid-based view with plenty of construction elements and three warring races.

However, instead of taking a cutesy approach to the genre like Paladog or an old-school board approach like Highborn, Starfront: Collision sets its sights squarely on the Starcraft-playing crowd. Starfront: Collision is this week's requisite RTS game (I'm starting to think the iOS platform is solely responsible for bringing this genre back in popularity). This week's iPocket has something for everyone! Continuing the trend of high-quality RTS games on the App Store is Starfront, we've got something a little different from Disney, and we even have a physics puzzler where the goal is to save a Japanese idol! This week's titles may all be wildly different, but they are all tons of fun! This week, there's not a clunker in sight, so let's get started!
