They say that success is the greatest enemy of innovation and that proves to be true with Digital Chocolate’s Crazy Penguin Catapult 2. The original remains one of the most downloaded app store titles and thus I can see why the developers didn’t really want to rock the boat by altering the formula for its sequel.However, while I am disappointed that there is not much new to the sequel, it is still a very fun game of polar bear-smashing.
In Crazy Penguin Catapult 2, you use a catapult to launch penguins over a field of pesky polar bears. Penguins dive in front of the catapult and you must activate the catapult at just the right moment so that they fly out of your cave unscathed. If they smack into a wall or the ceiling, they cannot be used to defeat polar bears in the second-half of each stage. Once you’ve launched all of your penguins, you must then dive-bomb the polar bears and knock them off their perches. Some bears are protected by ice which must be broken, others are hidden in tunnels that must be infiltrated by a sliding a penguin through icy crevices.
Each stage has a required number of bears to bash into, but the more you hit the more stars you bank. When you gather a set amount of stars, you earn power-ups for your penguins. You can earn extra penguins so that you have more shots, bear-seeking penguins, drill helmets for breaking through ice, dynamite boxes that blow up patches of ice when hit, and much more. Some of the power-ups are new to Crazy Penguin Catapult 2. Other than new power-ups and 50 brand new stages, that’s about all that’s new to Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 that seperates it from the original.
Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 includes the strategy-style side game from the original, too. It’s still very playable and a nice addition to the winning casual game formula of penguin-launching that the developers have mastered. This is an excellent example of Digital Chocolate’s one-touch gaming philosophy that does not exclude any gamer, regardless of skill level. No need to worry about tilt sensitivity. No complicated button combos. Just tap to launch, tap to have a penguin initiate a dive.
So, in spite of Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 being something of a rehash of the first game, I still cannot help enjoying it. The concept is brilliant and that’s timeless. I think if you played the first game extensively, you may get less out of Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 than a newcomer. However, it still makes for some great fun especially at a $2.99 price tag.
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