Some apps are just too easy. With only a screen to tap, they simplify their button layouts to mind-melting simplicity or just dumb any instance of genuine difficulty down to make it more casual. Not Line Runner.
Line runner is the hardest game I've ever played on iOS. It seems content to present itself as a game that's cute and accessible, only to break your soul mere moments after starting. The background of Line Runner is the now familiar graph paper (made popular by games like Doodle Jump) and the clunky graphics imply the game is unchallenging.
Even Line Runner's gameplay sounds easy - an invisible button on the left makes you roll, an invisible button on the right makes you jump. Small squares come flying toward you and you either have to jump over them or roll under them. So why's it so hard?
Probably because the game moves at a million miles an hour. If you want to rack up a respectable score, you'll have to blur your vision so you can see the entire screen. The app developer calls this feature "Increasing difficulty from easy to bone breaking." We call shenanigans. This game is bone breaking from the start.
Our high score was 618. If you beat that, upload a screenshot to the GameTime Flickr here. Pick up the game here for only $.99!
