In the 17th century, after the Inquisition forced him to recant his stance that the earth moved around the Sun and not vice versa, Galileo is said to have muttered 'And yet it moves.' Meaning that it did not matter what you say or think, the fact remains.
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DeNA's game Yet It Moves - the mobile version having removed the 'And' from the original 2009 PC title - while nothing close to a treatise on solar movement, is a game I think the Viennese master would appreciate.
Yet It Moves is the precisely the kind of mobile title I always look for. Fun, but with the right amount of challenge. Fun, easy, with a playtime I can adjust to whatever my current situation. Whether I play for 30 seconds or 30 minutes, it remains an enjoyable experience that does not try my patience and whose difficulty scales up appropriately across the many levels.
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The game takes the traditional 2D platformer and - quite literally - turns it on its head. Instead of just running and jumping across a wild and varied paper-esque landscape, players can drag their finger across the screen to rotate the world, creating floors out of ceilings and opening up new paths towards the end of the level. Spinning the game-world takes a little getting used to, though as with anything, practice makes perfect. The control scheme feels so natural, so right and interactive on an iPhone screen that I can't imagine playing Yet It Moves on the PC or other platform.
Yet It Moves is a rewarding and dare I say "moving" experience for your iPhone and iPad. The game itself is a bit short, with about 22 levels total. A decent length experience, but one that can hopefully be expanded on at a later date. There is a daily run 'time attack mode' for players wishing to put their high scores against one another, but little is offered outside of the main "narrative".
In a lot of way, Yet It Moves reminds me of one of my favorite mobile titles from 2014, Monument Valley. Both are visually gorgeous and task you with rearranging the game world to complete the puzzles. And both are too short. Still, the time you spend with Yet It Moves will be well spent. It turns out Galileo was wrong. The earth does not move around the sun; the earth moves around you.
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Yet It Moves was reviewed on an iPhone 5S using a code provided by the developer. You can download it on the App Store today for $2.99.
