Our Verdict
Adult Swim’slatest teaser for the iPhone and iPad , the $ 3Girls Like Robots , is just about everything you want in a puzzle game : it ’s refreshing , quirky , cheerful , and challenging .
female child Like Robots tells a three - enactment tale of mellow school seating arrangement play . ( Because , apparently , that ’s a affair . ) At its core , this game is a logic puzzle : miss like automaton and hate nerd . robot like young woman , but not too many little girl . dweeb love girls and edges , but hate each other . June likes bugs . Ben likes June . Everybody likes pie , except for robots that do n’t understand Proto-Indo European . So who sits where ?
In each level , the goal is to make everyone as felicitous as potential . This means putting girls next to golem , nerds next to edges , and multitude next to Proto-Indo European , and avoiding putting too many nerds next to miss . you’re able to tap and drag tile with these characters to different one-armed bandit , or you’re able to rap slot when a stilt of tiles is selected ( sometimes you have to put tile down in a sure order ) . If you make a error , you ’ll have to hit the undo button and try out again .
On the left side of the screen , there ’s a thermometer that measures the worldwide feeling in the room . Your goal is to fill the thermometer as high as potential — the thermometer has three levels , and meet the thermometer higher solution in more period . More point mean unlock fillip rounds , so that ’s an incentive to do well .
On the right side of the blind are the tiles , as well as a heart icon , which shows you the universal relationships between the characters ( scarlet = angry , down in the mouth = happy ) . you’re able to also tapdance on any single tile to see what that character the likes of and disfavour , in case you forget .
Tile teaser aside , Girls Like Robots also has a precious , albeit quirky , storyline . I wo n’t spoil it for you , but it involves situations like Ben fall into the glitch King ’s lair , and everyone end up in a line of business full of too friendly cows . The secret plan features an upbeat hoedown soundtrack and several precious snub scenes , which can be cut if you ’re not interested in storyline .
Bottom line
Girls Like Robots is a playfulness , challenging puzzler that ’s well deserving the $ 3 . My only issue with the game is that you have to undo your last move by pressing the undo button — you ca n’t just rap and pull tiles off of the table , or to other spaces . It seems like you should be able to do this , and tap the undo button is unintuitive and thwarting . But I theorise it just makes the plot a little more challenging , since you have to contrive ahead so as to get the sit down chart just powerful .
