The best Android game this week - Green Ninja: Year of the Frog
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Nitrome's new game could be about anything. You could be moving boxes about a factory, or parking cars in a lot. But that's not what we expect from the studio of Gunbricks and endless sausage dogs.
So instead, this puzzle game is about a karate frog that does flying kicks into aubergines (I think that's what they are…) while dodging mines and keeping away from fire.
The game's easy to play: you just swipe the screen in one of four directions to send your froggy fighter flying through the air. He won't stop, though, so you have to think carefully before you set off.
This sets up lots of clever - if slightly predictable - puzzles, with surfaces you can't latch onto and blocks that shunt when you bang into them and springs and barrels and one-way floors.
Also, don't be concerned about the fact that it's free. It's split up into loads of levels, like Icebreaker, and the only monetisation is ads. You'll see pop-ups between stages and can watch an ad to skip the stage if you get stuck.
Basically, it's another top game from Nitrome. Eventually these guys will put out a crap game. But this isn't it. You can get Green Ninja: Year of the Frog from Google Play, here.
Honourable mentions
Hat tip to Lifeline…, which came to Android this week. This game puts you into a conversation with a spaceman who has crash landed on an alien planet, and he needs your help (and your Googling skills) to survive.
It's a shame that it doesn't work on Android Wear, as the iOS version really shined on Apple Watch. But what can you do. Nothing. That's what. Bye!
