A platformer perfectly adapted for the iPhone

Having no physical buttons makes the iPhone ill-suited for most traditional game genres, platformer being one of them. Still it’s not impossible, Rayman Jungle Run is the perfect example of how it can be done. By having the Rayman auto run and in effect turning the whole touch screen in to a jump button Ubisoft has been able to pull it off. The whole game is then designed with this auto run setup in mind, so while it would never work when porting over say Super Mario Bros. it works fantastically well here.  It also doesn’t hurt that the game has the same amazingly beautiful graphics as Rayman Legends on the consoles. This is really the game that all iOS developers planning to make a platformer should look at.

One big complaint is that Ubisoft themselves screws up these seemingly perfect controls by giving Rayman a punch attack in the last ¼ of the game. This adds a punch button to the game but thankfully the rest of the screen still acts like a big jump button. Even if the game still is fully playable the controls do no longer feel as natural as before and I no longer felt like I had perfect control over Rayman.