https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zero-punctuation-hatfall/id978386210?mt=8
Addictive Games are up this week to bring us the ios/browser/”probably could do it with some string” game Hatfall. The premise is simple. You control a man who has to position himself under a falling hat. Besides removing irony from the title, this action gives you a point if the hat successfully falls on your head. If it doesn’t fall on your head, you lose and start again.
If that sounds simple, well done, you have a grasp of gaming mechanics. It is also pretty accurate, because that is all you do. To add some challenge to the outing, the game attempts to confuse or outright troll you by having multiple people on the screen, forcing you to work out which of them is yourself as the hat falls down. To compound things further, not every descending object is a hat and things like fridges are best not stood under.
From there you’ll get the flow of the game. It starts off easy, but then you’ll get more people on the screen, more fake choices and less time to make a decision. It is classic stuff and works for the most part, which is probably expected given it is so simple.
However, that is really all there is to it. You can unlock things by collecting more hats, but they are not really worth doing so and are not even full of the Zero Punctuation “in” jokes that might have provided a bit of value to the title. Given that, you’d be best to stick with the browser version, which can be found here:
http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/hatfall-game.jsp
Oh but you purchased it on itunes? Well for $2.50 you get your game which is fair enough. I’ve enjoyed the guy’s comedy for years so I don’t mind throwing a couple of bucks down for a pointless and limited experience. Heck I paid much more for Dragon Age Inquisition.
But here is the rub. Hatfall also includes a $0.99 IAP to “DOUBLE HATS FOREVER and unlock three unique shop items”!!!! Which is a bit of a fucking joke. As the store itself says “Like the game? Why not chuck us a measly 99 cents to double collected hats?” I’ll tell you why, because I already bought the fucking game.
So yeah, browser it is.
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