iPhone App Reviews

Nintaii 2

Michael E. | Apr 14, 2010 Games

User rating: (5 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Concrete Software’s Nintaii 2 is, of course, the follow up to a unique puzzle game unlike any I’d ever played before. I’m referring to Nintaii.  It’s a Japanese term, meaning “patience, perseverance, or endurance”.  These were three things I needed with the first game and three things you’ll need in spades if you’re going to make it through the 100 levels of this one.   

The objective of the game is easy enough.  The player manipulates a rectangular concrete block across a field with the goal of getting the block to fall into a square exit hole located somewhere near the end of the level.  Sounds easy enough, right?  It isn’t.  There are all kinds of obstacles and traps in the way and because you’re not able to see the entire field at once you don’t always know how a move at the moment will affect what’s to come.

There are two challenges to every Nintaii 2 puzzle: 1), to solve the puzzle and 2), to solve the puzzle with the lowest number of moves possible.  Whereas this was perhaps mildly annoying in the previous version, it’s maddeningly annoying in this one.  And for every puzzle I managed to solve, there was a fresh new one waiting for me.  Sometimes the puzzle was easy to solve and other times it wasn’t.

Nintaii 2 is, of course, more challenging than the original version.  And there are more features-a lot more.  You can now select the level you want to solve instead of going through them in sequential order.  There is a Hall of Fame, springs, locks, switches, arrows, and glass floors.

This is an Open Feint game, so there are awards to be won and achievements to be secured. 

Can you solve the madness that is Nintaii 2?  Put yourself to the test and find out.  It can be yours for just .99.

iTunes Link – Nintaii 2

Version 1.0.1

Tested on an iPod Touch 3.1.3

Tags: $.99