Puzzle and adventure iPhone game: Bobby Carrot Forever

Kevin 2009-02-04 |

You have a mission to undertake stretched across intriguing dreamlike landscapes to find 6 missing golden carrots. Bobby Carrot Forever from FDG Entertainment is one game that you should have on your iPhone to know the excitement of playing puzzle games. The developer bets that the game gives you 15 hours of fun; well, it might take longer if you are not fast in cracking puzzles.

The Game

Bobby Carrot a rabbit is the hero of this game, as a player you are the guide to help the rabbit find it’s way out of all the levels. There are 6 different worlds with 10 levels in each. You’ve to unravel the puzzles in each of the levels to exit to the next level or world. When you enter a level, you have to collect objects, unlock pathways, switch buttons to go to the locked exit. In most of the levels the object you have to collect are carrots. There are also obstacles, which can be cleared by hitting some cunningly placed buttons.

In some of the levels, obstacles need to be cleared in a predefined sequence. In order to scale a wall, Bobby needs to walk on the bean seed so that a bean stalk grows out of it; only then Bobby can enter the protected fort to collect the object needed to unlock the exit. There are dragons, stone boulders, water, mirrors, spikes, conveyor belts, etc, to obstruct Bobby from advancing further. However, there are lotus leaves and rockets to cross the canals, there are bean seeds to scale walls and buttons and keys to neutralize other obstacles. You need a little foresight to crack some of the puzzles in the advanced levels. That’s where the real fun starts.

Sound and Graphics

The game comes preloaded with CD quality music that goes well with the neat graphics. Design wise the game is awesome with an equally interesting narrative to guide through each of the levels. The controls are kept simple too, however, given the chance I would prefer a simpler control button like the one in Archibald’s Adventure or Real Soccer 2009. Tapping on different corners of the phone to navigate is somewhat tiresome.

Bobby Carrot Forever is retailed at $7.99, which I am sure would not be a problem for people who love puzzle games. 15 hours of fun for the asking price is cool. I am yet to complete all the levels, so have not experimented whether the game offers the same kind of excitement if you’ve to play all over again.