Touch Arcade - Games like Monkey Quest: Thunderbow [$0.99/HD] disrupt the feel-good media narrative we like to tell about the App Store. It's a low-risk way to capitalize on experimental games like Sword & Sworcery [$4.99], a place where Andreas Illiger, the one-man dev team behind Tiny Wings [$0.99], can sell thousands of copies. It's also where a giant corporation like Nickelodeon can sell us an Angry Birds [$0.99] clone to advertise its kid-friendly MMO, Monkey Quest.
STP: "Oh look, it's Angry Birds again."
That would be a perfectly justifiable reaction to seeing the mechanics of Monkey Quest: Thunderbow, the latest creation to come out of Nickelodeon and Viacom International. However, to write it off as such might be just a little hasty, given what this version brings to the table.
