They Need To Be Fed

Sometimes, games and the devices they find themselves on fit together like the ingredients of a delicious sandwich.

The coming together of They Need To Be Fed and the Xperia Play is one of those times. Like a hearty, multi-coursed banquet, it's a dish everyone should be savouring.

They Need To Be Fed is a unique-looking platform-puzzler that casts you in the role of a gravity-ignoring little alien. It's your job to traverse bite-sized levels, leaping from platform to platform, collecting crystals, and feeding the ravenous beasts that await you at the end of each obstacle course.

The game ignores the laws of physics and orients gravity to whichever way you're standing, letting you wander all the way around the various platforms without falling off.

This adds a bizarre puzzling element to proceedings, as you try and figure out which way's left and which way's right. Then the game throws spikes, see-saws, bouncy balls, and all manner of other tricksy problems at you.

This Xperia Play version not only treats you to far more levels than the original iPhone release - 32 more to be precise - but a control system that makes the game an absolute joy to play.

The sensitivity and quick changes offered by the Play's D-pad are ideal for the inch-perfect demands the game makes.

They Need To Be Fed was a slap up feast when it first came out, but the extras in this re-release make it a delicacy. This is a tight, brilliantly constructed puzzle-platformer that deserves a place on every Xperia Play.