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Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies

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Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies

Modern narrative culture defines itself through opposition. Vampires fight werewolves, birds fight pigs, and burly necked men fight invaders.

At the top of this rivalry tree sit zombies. Everyone fights zombies - even skydiving ninjas.

The question you have to ask yourself is: when these free-falling flesh eaters have no parachutes, what's the point?

Dive, dive, dive

Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies singularly fails to answer that question.

As you're plummeting through the sky, twirling your ninja sword or staff in front of you and slaughtering swathes of green-skinned reanimates, you can't help but wonder why you can't just let them hit the ground.

You control your plucky ninja by tapping on the screen, this marks a waypoint that your black clad master of killing will then fly to, slashing out at anything that gets in his way.

Stay still for too long and the zombies will swarm all over you, devouring your delicious flesh.

Floating pills provide health and damage boosts and falling briefcases can be smashed open for explosive lightning attacks and points.

At the end of every level floats a single, golden parachute. Grab that and you move onto the next challenge. Miss it and it's Game Over.

The sky is limited

In terms of polish, Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies is excellent, carving a rancid niche for itself with cartoon graphics and a soundtrack that perfectly fits the on-screen carnage. Where it falls down is its lack of subtlety.

The game flies by at a frantic pace, but it feels more overwhelming than exciting. The lack of control you have over your ninja means a single wrong tap can send you back to the start of the level before you've had a chance to correct your mistake.

Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies never manages to resolve its twin problems. For all of its gore and bravado, it lacks the finesse of the very best.

And for all of its high concept posturing, it's never enough fun to stop you thinking that all of your actions are in vain.

Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies

Even with all of its visual swagger and overt cockiness, Super Ninja Skydiving Plus Zombies can't create enough excitement to stop itself from hitting the ground, hard
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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.