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Game Review: Avatar

    Hey, everyone. I've probably had the game Avatar since last Christmas. I bought it on sale for 99 cents and I have enjoyed it.  I haven't finished it yet. It has the most beautiful colors on the app store. It seems to be poorly thought of on app store reviews but I can't really agree with most of those folks in this instance.
     Avatar is a mixture of puzzle and action game. It has a distinct zen type feel to it. It is like a progression toward a spiritual manhood. I found it to be entertaining. Here's the recipe.
    Avatar is the brainchild of Director James Cameron. It is, of course, adapted from the movie. You are placed into the body of an Avatar by human scientists and are expected to bind yourself to the indigenous population on a strange planet. You are to be sort of a low-life spy. Instead, you become involved in a spiritual quest. The experience is so Zen-like that I caught myself expecting Yoda to pop up and say, "Not ready you are."
     You encounter bad guys and weird tigers. There are giant mechs who attack you. You have weapons like guns,staffs, bows and arrows. You negotiate hanging vines, dangerous jumps and stinging flowers which kill you with an electrical charge. You hitch a ride on winged creatures and jump from rock to rock on boulders which defy gravity. At one point you jump from spot to spot to go up a flowing river. It took me a while to get through that one. Quite a current.
    You remember when Dorothy fell asleep in the poppies in the Wizard of Oz? In this game there are poison plants that slowly kill you if you linger in them. Pretty cool.
     There are these giant plants which give you healing. You are literally raised off the ground by them and bathed in a soft radiance that heals your body and spirit. At one point you do a death-defying slide down a column of rock to a valley a 1000 feet below.
     The quest is long. I may not finish it. The place where I am currently stuck is aggravating. I am trying to climb a cliff face by scurrying up vines. Then I got blocked by an overhanging wall of rock. This is on Chapter 5. I even went to You Tube and typed in Avatar for I-Pad Walkthrough. I found no solution there. Still, I am trapped. My attitude is, " Hey, for 99 cents, I have had hours of game play."
     This game is currently $4.99. You might want to wait until you see it on sale for 99 cents, like I did. Don't expect some NOVA-like shootout with this game. It is...well, different. I call it 4 stars out of 5. You might hate it.
From the home of the Na'vi, this is CE Wills, the blue-skinned dude.
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