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I got it. And it's pretty
awesome. Your job is to pilot a Night Fury as Hiccup in order to herd sheep
into a small pen. In Tap Dragon Drop, Night Furies have five sheep herding tools —
roar, burn, lift, bash, and dive — which they use to break through obstacles
like forests and Viking statues and cross canyons.
The graphics are fairly
good for an iPhone game. It's certainly not the 3D animation in the movie, but
the animation and characters are highly amusing. Especially the sheep. I think
watching them bound across the stage is entirely worth the price of the game,
never mind the dragons. It also has a decent physics engine, which means you
can do cool things like geyser sheep high into the sky (my new favorite
pastime).
Included in the game are
14 beautiful megabytes of music by John Powell. Each of the stories in the game
uses a different set of tracks from the film score, so it never gets too
repetitive.
Perhaps my only complaint
is the speed. Tap Dragon Drop starts out a little slow at the beginning as it
teaches you the basics of herding. It's not really until level 13 that things
start getting harder. But it's only when the catapults are introduced in
level 14 that things start getting really fun. So yes, it might be a little
boring at the beginning, but overall it's a very addicting game that kind of
reminds me of a dream I once had.
