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Doctor Who and the Mazes of Time HD

   Hey, everyone. It's a beautiful day here at the green retreat. It is sunny and breezy, with a temperature in the 60's. I wanted to give a little love to the puzzlers among you. Really, as I get stuck on more and more action games, I play more puzzle games. Besides, this puzzler is an action puzzler. Let me say, before I forget, that this game is free. There are additional puzzle packs for sale at a modest price, but there are 100 levels in this game. Here's the recipe.
    You are a brainy doctor named, appropriately, Doctor Who. It seems that some Daleks, Cybermen and Silurians have captured a family and sent them backward in time. With your capable assistant, Amy Pond, you navigate your way through rooms. Inside these rooms are robots that kill you, spikes that kill you and puzzles that require that dreaded component from a shooter dude, you have to think. For instance, sometimes you have to slide a massive stone block over a switch in order to hold the switch down. This opens a door or causes the murderous spikes to recess into the floor. There are platforms that slide back and forth. You have to jump on them without falling on the spikes. There are balls of energy to pick up, also.
    The thing I like most about this game? I can play it. I mean, it is not so difficult as to be too frustrating. The graphics are exceptional, with the people and objects being sized nice and large so you can see them.
     The game description tells me that I will travel to ancient Incan temples and the frozen tombs of Telos, but I am still in the first 10 levels, I think. The bottom line is, I like it. It is that rare combo that both action people and puzzlers can enjoy. There are no explosions or shooting, yet, but I have hope. The good doctor is supposed to have a sonic screwdriver but he has yet to use that device in my presence. I guess that any dude that wears a bow tie is not going to pull a 9MM out, huh?
    I forgot to mention another element of game play. There is a button in the lower right. When you tap it you switch control of the doctor to control of Amy. This is fun because there are sections of floor that are rotten and Amy, being lighter, can walk over them with impunity. The Doc, however, is needed to push the heavy stones around. I feel for the Doc, because my wife just keeps me around to kill snakes. Whatever.
    One final note. The free version won't be free for long, they say, so grab it if you like.
    From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
P.S. Carley, the puzzler, calls this game 3 stars out of 5 and I call it 4 stars out of 5.
P.S.S. I started to say that the Doc had a little brother named Google. Google Doc, get it? I know, really a lame joke. Or I could have said that Amy Pond was really deep.
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