To be honest I have been busy with work and family-life, but now I'm back in the game.
This time I have quite a large pileup of assorted games tested and just keep on reading to find out what I found this time...
Minecraft: Pocket Edition
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Minecraft PE is one of my favorite games for the Android platform. So I must admit I was pretty pleased when I tried this and it turned out as well as it did.
Gameplay is smooth and the game performs very well on the Pine.
It has official gamepad support, but it is not mapped logically (from my point of view). In settings there are the possibility to remap all the buttons, so it is easy to customize it to your liking.
I did find a bug while running this on the Pine. All blocks are getting green spots/fields when you are moving around in dim places. Not the biggest bug, and has close to nothing to say for the experience, but still, it's there.
Storm the Train
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Fun side-scrolling shooter with a good tempo to it. Many unlockables, but there are some ads in this one. The ads can be disabled with an IAP (recommended for the best experience and to support the developers).
This game does not officially support gamepad but it is easy to setup using SixAxis.
Boxel Bot
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Please keep away from this game. This game does not provide the possibility to buy yourself out of ads, and its an extreme amount of ads in this one.
When it doesn't even support gamepad of IAP this game is useless. (You could probably disable the ads with Lucky Patcher, but I did not even give that a try.
Cordy
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The combination of official gamepad-support, smooth gameplay, high fps and great sound this is one of the games you just MUST try on your Pine.
Cordy gives you one of the visually most beautiful gaming experience you can get. For the ultimate gaming experience it requires that you just love sidescrollers...
The free version of Cordy gives you the 4 first levels and the rest can be bought for the quite steep price of $3.
Cordy 2
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This game gives you the same gaming experience as Cordy 1 does, but with a bit more finesse in the gameplay. This one is also free to download and install, but it only gives you 6 levels. To unlock all levels you need to pay up $4. Its a bit much, but I did it gladly as the Cordy games are really fun and both me and my kids love them.
One Tap Hero
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Fun and challenging platformer that's capable of driving out your inner daemon. (Some of the levels are extremely difficult).
There is no official gamepad support, but it is extremely easy to map this game using SixAxis.
This game has some ads, but they can be disabled for the small sum of $0.99.
Paper Monster
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This game has NO gamepad support but it can be mapped with SixAxis. You can not use mouse to klick on the buttons in the menu, so you need to map multiple "touch emulation profiles" just to start the game.
There is also ads.
Paper Monster Recut
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The Recut version of Paper Monster is more playable than the first Paper Monster game. This game is quite fun to play, but it feels a bit sluggish.
It does contain ads, and that sucks.
The frosting on the cake is the annoying, repetitive game music.
It doesn't score high in the test mostly because of the sluggish gameplay.
Just Shout
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This meaningless sidescroller shooter is a lot of fun. And quite time consuming. It runs really smooth on the Pine with little to none problems. The lack of official gamepad support is frustrating, but its doable to map the keys with SixAxis.
Just Shout contains ads, but they are removable for the sum of $0.99.
Block Battles: Heroes at War
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Not able to map keys for this game, and therefore it gets the worst rating that's possible. To bad, cause the game seems fun.
Hovercraft Takedown
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This block-themed racer-shooter is fun in the beginning with a creative controller.
It runs smoothly on the Pine and is very well playable.
The hovercraft just floats around and that's a fresh alternative to all these other classic racing games.
When you throw official gamepad support on top of that you would think you got a good game, but then again, no. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, and you'll soon get tired of the game.
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