Warp Shift
By Dana Anderson,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Visually beautiful puzzles center on escape story.
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What’s It About?
Watch the mini-movie to learn the story behind the game in WARP SHIFT: A little girl finds a mechanized box that sounds strikingly like R2-D2 and falls down into an underground maze. Her goal is to get out. Look for the marked openings on the boxes to see where you should swipe to move boxes to line up the openings in the right way to allow Pi -- the little girl -- to move to the portal. Try to use as few moves as possible to earn all three stars, and replay or restart any level without penalty. As levels progress, the boxes have different types of doors, and the little box must be retrieved to make the portal work. Though a few puzzle solutions are offered for free, it's possible kids will run out and want to buy more.
Is It Any Good?
The narrative, visually beautiful movie, and cinematic music add real drama to this game, effectively turning it into more of an adventure than a standard puzzle app. Though the challenge is often easy enough to be quite meditative and pure fun as you move Pi through the boxes into the portal, there are some puzzles interspersed with the easier ones that may make players give up on reaching the last level. This is where the "level solutions" in-app purchases come into play, so parents may want to set expectations before downloading and encourage planning ahead and retrying levels instead of buying solutions. If the mechanics changed even more from level to level or if the narrative was an even bigger element in the game, this app would be even more amazing.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about your rules around in-app purchases. Talk about other ways to handle the frustration of getting stuck. It may be OK to use the solution option at some point. But first, would it be more rewarding to walk away now and try again later or to ask a sibling or parent for help?
Talk about the mini-movie at the beginning. Since it's a silent movie, this movie offers an excellent opportunity for parents to ask kids to describe what's going on as they see it. View it with your kid, and have them describe what's happening in their own words and how it relates to gameplay.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : decision-making, part-whole relationships, problem solving, solving puzzles, strategy, thinking critically, Self-Direction : achieving goals, work to achieve goals
- Pricing structure: Paid (in-app purchases for "level solutions" are 5 solutions for $0.99; 10 for $2.99; 25 for $4.99; and 50 for $5.99)
- Release date: May 25, 2016
- Category: Puzzle Games
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy
- Publisher: FISHLABS
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 8.0 or later
- Last updated: October 23, 2019
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