Gorgeous Steam Platformer, CreaVures, Arrives On iOS
CreaVures ($0.99) by Chillingo Ltd is full of personality and gorgeous visuals. Help the creavures restore light to their forest home.
You may have heard of CreaVures before. Born and raised as a Steam title, CreaVures has always been beautiful to say the least. Now, a little over a year after its launch on PC, CreaVures has arrived in the App Store.
As with every PC and console port to iOS, the playing experience with CreaVures has changed. Despite the transition to on-screen controls, CreaVures still plays smoothly for the most part. My feelings toward the controls are mixed. At times, everything works so well. But there are also times when the controls just refuse to do what you want them to. Still, the controls don’t detract too much from the overall experience.
In terms of gameplay, CreaVures is rock solid. Each level has you switching between two creavures trying to collect as much “essence” as possible. Each of the five creavures has a unique ability, such as climbing up walls or shooting out a bolt of lightning. It’s up to you to decide when to switch creavures, but you will have to use both as they will not leave each other behind. The “essence” is the light source of the forest, and your job is to collect as much as possible to raise the darkness.
In total, CreaVures has 19 levels spread across five chapters. Each chapter is set in a different region of the forest, ranging from caves to swamps. There are also a couple boss battles at the end of some chapters. These are particularly tricky and require quick thinking and precise platforming.
CreaVures is a game that most would enjoy simply looking at. The graphics are plain gorgeous and the animations are smooth as well. Overall, Muse Games did an amazing job establishing the atmosphere of a dark forest. The personality of the creavures and the depth of the levels put CreaVures in a different realm of iOS platformers. CreaVures is more than a platformer, it is a work of art and it definitely belongs on your device.
