iPhone App Review: Finger Physics

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Finger Physics

If you’re looking for a challenging physics puzzle to satisfy you iPhone gaming needs, look no further. Finger Physics offers the most entertaining and challenging set of physics based puzzles this reviewer has seen yet. Not only are there 9 stages, each with 9 individual challenges, but each challenge is unique in its offering.

These challenges range from the extremely unique “Egg Mode” to the typical stacking challenges. Egg Mode is my personal favorite mode. In these levels, you  must remove blocks in order to get the egg to drop in the basket. Sometimes this is an easy task, and sometimes it takes a little creative thinking (for example, you may need to remove a box that makes a bar hit a lever. That lever will drop a ball which will hit the egg into the basket, if you release it at the right time).

The stacking modes are fairly simply. You stack all available shapes in order to build a stable unit. Your unit must stand for at least 5 seconds in order to beat that level. There are two particular ways the blocks can interact with eachother to throw you off task, though. Red and Blue magnet blocks will stick to eachother (possibly making your task easier), but don’t try putting a red next to a red (or blue with a blue). The blocks will pull apart quickly, due to the magnetic forces. Orange explosive blocks cannot be placed touching another orange block. Otherwise, both blocks explode, and you will lose the level.

In most free-stacking levels, you are awarded a gold, silver, or bronze medal due to the time you spent on the level. Other times, your challenge will be to stack the blocks above a certain line. The lowest line is the bronze medal and so on. I found these levels the most challenging, as I can rarely get passed a silver medal.

There are also environmental constraints that affect your performance. In underwater modes, yellow blocks sink and blue blocks float. You must best utilize these blocks so that they do not sink or float to the top or bottom. There are also reversed levels where you must stack backwards the entire time.

Scores are reported via Open Feint integration, so there are various achievements you can try to obtain. Between the achievements and different medals, the replay value of Finger Physics is infinite. The music and graphics may look cute, but the challenge is real. It’s hard not to let this fantastic application’s appeal suck you in. After hours of playing, I still find myself replaying those levels I didn’t quite perfect. And replaying them again. And again. I mentioned this was challenging, right?

The physics mechanics of Finger Physics are top notch. There really isn’t a single thing I would change about the gameplay. I love the unique challenges – each stage felt like a surprise, as a new tactic needed to be employed. For 99 cents, I’d recommend everyone go out and buy this application. It’s in the top 10 paid applications for a reason.

Overall impression

★★★★★★★★★★

Value for your money

★★★★★★★★★★

Category: Games
Type: Physics-based puzzler
Cost: 99cents
Rating: 4+

Current iTunes Reviews: 543 ratings, 4 stars

Description:

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Fingers in Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Ireland and the UK would like to welcome their US brethren to the Finger Physics Top 10 party!

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***Finger Physics Reviews***

“9/10 – What makes Finger Physics stand out from the others from the outset is the variety of challenges that it offers.”
- TheiPhoneAppReview.com

“I really liked Finger Physics for its gameplay variations and polished design, whoever did the art is extremely skilled.”
- NoDPad.com

“Finger Physics is AWESOME!! ”
- Eros Resmini, OpenFeint

“New elements make this physics gaming compound fresh and fun to play.”
8/10 and Silver Medal by PocketGamer

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When was the last time you had an honest conversation with your fingers? Do you really know how much fun they are having on a daily basis? You use them to play games on your iPhone and iPod touch you say, but are you sure they aren’t tired of the same screen mashing, pointing and line drawing? No, you aren’t sure, you thoughtless wielder of tiny appendages.

Luckily for you (lucky because we don’t even want to talk about what it looks like when your fingers go into all out revolt mode), we did ask what your fingers want. Did you know that 9 out of 10 fingers agreed that magnetized blocks, explosive shapes, under water puzzles, low gravity environments and speed play levels were essential to the perfect finger fun? You didn’t, did you, could you be more selfish?

Here’s what else they told us:

Pinky: “I just want to be involved, I don’t care how, I just want to have some fun. While the other fingers get to play puzzle games, I’m stuck where I can’t even see. You don’t know how bad life is until a thumb calls you ‘stubby’.”

Ring Finger: “Seriously, stop playing with the ring. It’s bad enough that I’m constantly choking, but taking it on and off is torture. You take it off, I think I’m free, and then you put it right back on again. I hate you.”

Middle Finger: “I’m totally satisfied with my role as the longest, most meaningful finger.”

Index Finger: “Give me some mental stimulation, some physics or something; if I have to draw another line I’m pretending I have leprosy. I want a game where I get to build not only for height, but stability as well. Come talk to me when you’ve got that.”

Thumb: “I want to compete. Present me with some challenges and I’ll show you who’s the most “dexterous”. Though clearly “stubby” won’t be much of a challenge.”

Shocked? Yea, us too. We can’t help ‘Pinky’ (no one can) or ‘Ring Finger’, but Finger Physics is everything Index Fingers and Thumbs could want. With 9 stages, over 80 challenging puzzles and 7 distinct modes, Finger Physics provides you with your best chance to give back to those digits that you have so thoughtlessly neglected over the years.

Clearly, thumbs have something to prove (not that we’re here to judge), so we’ve added an almost unlimited amount of achievements allowing them to strut their stuff against fingers world-wide. Index fingers got their stability mode on top of a mode requiring them to strategically guide an egg in to its nest; we threw that one in just to shake things up for middle fingers.

At the Finger Physics launch party, Fingers were giggling, whooping it up, and engaging in riotous shadow puppetry in celebration of its availability.

Like what you see? Check out our other iPhone games including America’s Next Top Model, Bumper Stars, Go Fish Multiplayer, and Gin Rummy Deluxe. You can also follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/press_ok.

Finger Physics is OpenFeint Enabled.