Chris Buffa (Modojo): Chillingo seems to think the world could use more puzzle platform games, and the company released a great one called Rinth Island. Available for both iPhone and iPad, the app sends you on a tropical vacation of sorts, not to kick back and enjoy mixed drinks on the beach, but to light five beacons to help guide weary sea travels. It's both well designed and challenging, exactly the type of game we love to get happily lost within.
Chris Buffa (Modojo): If you frequent the App Store, odds are good you came across Chillingo's outstanding puzzle/platform game, Rinth Island. Developed by Oregon-based Buzz Monkey Software, this gem tasks players with navigating through 60 different towers to reach strategically placed objects, plotting several moves ahead to find the best possible solutions. Then, after they complete the first batch of stages, gamers can hop into the editor to create their own, eventually sharing them with the rest of the world.
Pocket Gamer: Platform games don't always have to be about jumping. We've come to expect our avatars to be able to hurl themselves around with gay abandon, but sometimes the very best platforming experiences can come when your feet are very firmly stuck on the ground.
Take Rinth Island, for example. It presents you with a series of broken towers linked together by rickety bridges and wooden scaffolding, and littered with moveable blocks, flippable switches, and spinning creatures who want nothing more than to slash you to pieces.
