Octagon 1: Maximal Challenge

App Store Editors’ Notes

Amazing

This app is very fun and addicting. The concept is wonderful; each block has its own gravitational poll and you have to go through an obstacle course through them. The colors are amazing, and the dynamics are awesome. One thing that I would like to change is that you can go back and play previous levels. I also don't like the regenerate level option because it makes you think "well is this the same level as my friend played?" But otherwise it's a great game.

Apple TV Controls Need Work

I am a proud owner of an Apple TV. I love playing games on my Apple TV, because it is really fun to go to play games that aren't Consol games on the big screen. I love her mobile developers like you, the developers of Octagon, have an ability to quickly and easily make a version of your app for the Apple TV. I also happen to know the game development is not easy, and mistakes are going to be made occasionally. But, the controls on the Apple TV are completely and totally 100% trash. The only way to have good controls on the Apple TV version of the game, is to have a game controller. I do not have one of those. And if anyone else does not have one of those, the game is completely unplayable. If you want to try to fix the swipe controls, that's great. I would love to have swipe controls that actually work. That would be nice. But what I would actually prefer, is if you were to add touch controls to the Siri remote. Controls that function like they do on the controller. The ability to tap of the sides or edges of the remote to move your octagon. This is my only complaint with the game, as the mobile version is almost perfect. And if the Apple TV version could be played I I assume that it would be great as well. When I saw octagon had an Apple TV app, I was excited to play it. But now, I don't think I can. Please fix this. Thanks. Rocket

Is this a joke? Awful awful awful💩💩💩💩

1st move/swipe works. 2nd move/swipe doesn't budge or it opens the pull up prefs menu or it opens the pull down notifications menu. Tapping the correct direction for the second move instead of swiping doesn't do anything. Trying to swipe even slightly from the very bottom of the screen to avoid getting near the pull down notifications menu turns the ball upside down. I could probably disable the preference pull up menu and the notifications pull down menu but why would I do that for this POS? I can't get to the second move. Free Pro tips for App developers: 1st rule of an app is that it should work. You fail. 1st rule of a game is that it should be fun. You fail that too. Possibly the worst game I've ever downloaded. I honestly can't think of any that were worse. I like the type of game this is trying and failing to be but I want to call someone who made this and yell at them. I've enjoyed writing this review more the I enjoyed the ten minutes spent trying to figure out how to get the app to work. There is nothing unique about this game. The developer is full of it. This actually looks almost exactly like a different game that other reviewers noted, so much so that I can't believe this developer hasn't been sued, except this is a POS with state of the art graphics of an Atari from 1984. It looks better than pong. That's about it. Sorry. Bad example. Pong worked. Absolute 💩. Absolute utter complete 💩

First thoughts and suggestions

Alright, so the app is not bad, but could be a lot better. The swipe controls were a questionable choice for me, for the game gets so fast paced, that it becomes impractical to swipe, when tapping would work just fine. The way the app looked made me think it was going to be a more geometry dash type game, when in reality, it wasn't. The music has an almost play the game to it vibe, but due to the "randomly" generated levels, tends to be off beat with my swipes, giving an unnatural feeling. The perspective of where the holes are is a little off as well. But it is not the worst I have played, nothing tries to force you to buy anything and there hasn't been an ad, so it is not trying to milk money. And I applaud that. It could be a good-great game, but is not as of now.

Controls are terrible

The swipe controls while responsive take time. Which is good for early levels in classic but is terrible for later ones as the speed is increased The tap controls are absolutely terrible. Tapping one side of the screen should send you that side but if you miss the absolute side you are sent flipping. Simply put the tap controls are too unforgiving with switching lanes The computer version is the definitive version as the controls are solid and it works for people who left and right handed perfectly I would have thought that with the CPU version we would not have crappy controls in the phone version. Advice make an update where tapping both sides of the screen flips the map not the center and give complete lane switching to tapping one side of the screen.

Derivative and Poorly Executed

The game uses a simple design that has been done countless times before, and with little creative execution. Despite actually being flat, platforms are strangely given graphical depth that can make it difficult to tell where gaps occur from a distance. Levels are predesigned so that difficult parts are always at the end, and the player needs to continually go through nearly a minute of trivial sections before finally arriving at the challenge. Worst of all, the game can misread swipes occasionally, resulting in instant failure. The music soon becomes annoying as well. The gameplay can be inconsistently challenging, but is inherently repetitive. I do not consider this app worth the space it takes up, let alone money.

Play Run instead

If you like this game, at all, get yourself the game Run (found on the app store as a Kongregate game for free) instead. This game is basically a rip off of that, in the fullest sense of the term. It used a different background and a new obstacle to make it seem new, but is really so inferior. In this, you can't jump, instead you just roughly 'flip' the map upside down. The music in this game was so bad for the first level I had to turn it off. That might be opinion, but it seemed to be a few notes on repeat every 2 seconds. Run, on the other hand, has glorious music and much smoother play. Plus in that game you get to use an alien with shoes or I Estates and such. Seriously, get Run. It's worth your time. Any moment on this game is a moment wasted.

Addicting

THIS APP IS AWSOME!! I honestly don't really like apps like this but this app is different. It's really rage worthy but at the same time it's almost impossible to put down. I feel challenged to complete the levels. (that might just be my personality...) The bold, vibrant colors make it appealing to look at but at the same time confuse your brain, making the game harder. I really like this app and think, being a free app, it's worth downloading.