Adventures of Marvin and Mel Monkey: Word Rescue – iOS Review
A challenging and exciting educational game for young children…
Stats
Category: Games
Released: June 28, 2012
Version: 1.0.2
Size: 13.5 MB
Developer: On TheDot, LLC
Our Ratings
Graphics/Sound: 4/5
User Interface: 4/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Re-use/play value: 4/5
Overall Rating: 4/5
Price: Free/download
What Is It?
This is an educational game for young children, helping them to spell and have fun at once.
Is It Easy To Use?
It can be a little bit fiddly at first, you need to keep moving the monkeys to the left and right and it takes a little practice to gain experience and be fully competent. This is quite a fast paced game with obstacles, such as coconuts and mangoes to avoid and letters and bananas to collect.
Is It Fun?
Yes, very much so, the whole emphasis of this game is on fun. You control two monkeys, Marvin and Mel, they are on an adventure to rescue the missing letters taken from various locations around the globe. In the various locations you find different obstacles, characters and conditions that you have to deal with in order to save the words. There are incentives along the way, enabling you to obtain letter trophies to place in your trophy room and you can purchase accessories for Marvin and Mel too.
Is It Pretty?
Yes, it is the graphics are very clear and will appeal to the age group that this game is aimed at.
Should You Download it?
Most definitely, there’s the free version, with restricted access to try first and once you’ve found out how much fun you’re having, just download the fully paid version. For $0.99/£0.69 you can access all the levels of this app.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
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