Yeah… it’s great. Consider your $1 spent.
Fruit Ninja is another prime example of how quality 99 cent games can turn a profit on the App Store.
If you don’t yet own Fruit Ninja, why is that? Do you find the act of slicing through juicy fruits to be boring? Are you someone who despises quality games with a high level of polish and class? Perhaps you are a rebel who wants to make a statement by withholding yourself from a game that has been in the App Store top 10 for the last month. Consider this your wake up call.
Fruit Ninja has you slicing and dicing fruit with your finger as they are gracefully tossed into view from an unknown force. The more fruit you slice at once, the more points you get. The fruit slice in half with sickeningly satisfying squishy sounds, and their juice splats on the wall behind you. This is one of those games that makes you want to find a Katana and go on a rampage at a local flea market. You know, those games.
The main game mode has you slicing fruit with your fingers while avoiding bombs. If three fruit escape, or if you slice a single bomb on accident, the game is over. The “Zen Mode” gives you 90 seconds of fruit slicing goodness, with no worry of bombs or losing. You simply slice as best you can to get the most points. The game is fully integrated with Open Feint, so you can share your scores with your friends and the world. You even unlock stuff in the Dojo like different “swords” (the little streak you see when you swipe your fingers) and backgrounds.
So yeah, as I said, Fruit Ninja is fantastic. I’m looking forward to future updates, as Halfbrick Studios has already promised a new game mode that’s “coming soon”, and has already updated the game before for free. It’s certainly not a game that will keep you occupied for hours, but it’s a great game to play in short increments, and one that you will return to often. It currently sits right next to Doodle Jump in the ‘favorites’ folder on my iPhone.
