Rapid Review: Titan Towers - Looks Can Be Deceiving
TitanTower HD ($1.99) by AvisNocturna Software On the surface Titan Towers looks like Topple, but with a realistic metallic theme as compared to the cartoon theme. The game has exceptional retina quality graphics with such fine backgrounds and piece skins. Then you start playing the game, and you realize just because a game looks good doesn't mean it's a good game.
Titan Towers, Topple, and Finger Physics are block stacking games where you try to attack the various shapes to a certain height. Titan Towers offers absolutely terrible controls preventing you from enjoying it in anyway. Topple still offers some of the best and most unique controls every on the iPhone, and sadly this game doesn't even try to replicate them. When a piece drops in you can barely alter its position before it hits the ground.
The game theoretically let's you spin the piece with two fingers, and drag pieces around, but in playing the game it's practically impossible. You try to grab a piece and move it, and it barely shifts to the side you're moving. You can't slow the pieces descent so you can actually rotate it to fit the stack better.
When you tilt your device to control the level of your stack, and it makes the next piece fly off screen making you start over. The game really doesn't let you control it, and you're mostly reduced to watching the pieces fall in, and seeing how they stack by themselves. Since you can’t slow the descent the pieces fall in to your stack and the force knocks it over most of the time.
Without being able to move the pieces, or gently stack them the game is just frustrating despite looking so good. Titan Towers is just painful, and don't waste your time on it.
