You have to click on suspicious parts of the background to find them, and those are very subtle. Three of them are in each level, and the path to getting them is less than easy.
#CUT THE ROPE SPIDER SERIES#
Fuzzball Spider: The enemies in the series are spiders, represented as puffy black balls with six spindly legs.Evil Laugh: The spiders do one when they nab your candy.Excuse Plot: You have a monster, and he's hungry for candy.Exactly What It Says on the Tin: You have to cut the rope.Easter Egg: Try touching Om Nom and see what happens.Dinner Deformation: If Om Nom eats the candy in baby form in Cut The Rope: Magic he takes the form of the candy.Cartoon Creature: What exactly is Om Nom supposed to be (other than a monster)?.Bittersweet Ending: Two of the toons in the time travel season (Ancient Egypt and the Disco era) end with Om Nom destroying the place where he goes, but his ancestor from that era seems to be happy.Hopefully in future updates MaxNick will take the unique portions and expand on them to create something wholly their own. The final chapter introduces the portal mechanic and even though it’s similar to Portal and Cut the Rope’s magic-hats, it’s probably the strongest part of the game. This means you’ll be able to unlock five levels per stage for your friends if you’re in the giving mood.Īll this is to say that Spider Jack does get the job done and if you find yourself itching for more slicing, cutting physics-based games, it won’t be a disappointment.
#CUT THE ROPE SPIDER FULL#
Since you’re controlling a spider and not a falling ball of candy, some puzzles rely on you climbing up the web, but Jack moves so slowly and unpredictably it’s harder than it needs to be to get your timing right and it ends up feeling like luck more than skill when you do.įor those looking to show off their skills, there is full Game Center and Crystal support as well as the ability to gift levels to friends.
That said, it has some annoyances with its mechanics. The tutorial portions are nearly identical too. Blowing air, electricity, timers, portals - they’re all here. If you played Cut the Rope, you’re not going to be surprised by the puzzle variety. Of course, in Chillingo style, more levels are supposedly incoming shortly. That’s partially due to the lack of multi-touch puzzles - no two-finger swipes are necessary here and that alone makes it a considerably easier experience. Spider Jack’s 75 levels are considerably easier, which for anyone who struggled with Cut the Rope might be good news, but if you’ve already three-starred everything and are looking for more, you’ll be able to blaze through Spider Jack in around an hour with little trouble. Cut the Rope was imaginative and capable of introducing new techniques to keep the game interesting. Unfortunately, the one thing the two don’t share is solid level design. Before anyone cries out that it’s a clone, consider that Chillingo published both games, so clearly someone out there seemed to think the differences were strong enough, or maybe just didn’t care if they weren’t. There are also differently themed rooms where you’re tasked with completing puzzles by grabbing up to three stars scattered across the level. The visuals are remarkably close, albeit not nearly as polished and the music is the same, quirky and upbeat style. Spider Jack’s commonalities with Cut the Rope don’t just lay in its gameplay. Other than that, you’ll find a remarkably similar experience. The main difference is that you have to create the ropes before they’re cut here. To do this you’ll be spinning you spider web out to knobs, using physics to swing around and eventually cutting the web to capture your dinner. Where Cut the Rope tasks you with delivering a piece of candy to little Om Nom’s mouth, Spider Jack wants you to deliver Jack the spider to his dinner. It’s probably easiest to look at the few differences between the two games first before moving onto the similarities.
It’s also impossible to get through this review without comparing them to each other every step of the way. Let’s start by making one thing clear, MaxNick’s Spider Jack is Cut the Rope reimagined slightly enough that it will appeal to the rope-cutting fans out there who’ve been dying for new levels, but certainly won’t convert anyone who isn’t a fan of physics based puzzlers.
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