Saturday, May 28, 2011

Amazon's Free App of the Day - Yoo Ninja!

written by: Nick Kosmides

Conveniently created by a developer named Runner Games, though published by Wuzla for the Amazon Appstore for Android, Yoo Ninja! (ad-free) is today's free app of the day.

Runner Games doesn't specialize in the Runner game genre, even though you would think so given the evidence.  As for Wuzla, they are responsible for several of their own apps on the Android Market and have generously brought nearly all the Runner Games games over to the Amazon Appstore.  And this seems to have generated some confusion in reviewers.  Though I'm not surprised, because if one were to search for Yoo Ninja you'll find a game of the exact same name on the app store for iOS made by O2sun.  Hmm.

The game is fun and not what I expected.  Having played nearly a dozen or so runner type games, Yoo Ninja is a noticeable and welcomed change in the genre.  Instead of running and jumping over gaps from one platform to another, Yoo Ninja has you running and jumping over gaps from the floor to the ceiling and back again.

This adds a puzzling aspect to the game that otherwise doesn't exist in other runners such as the great I Must Run!

Give it a try yourself for the low low price of nothing!

Yoo Ninja! - $1.99 FREE