Halloween may be over this year but the zombie games will keep on coming. TouchTen have given gamers an endless runner/shooter game titled Cute Kill.
The story begins when all humans turn into zombies, while the baby and her brother George May have to find a way to save themselves while looking for their parents who also survived and is in the secret place. To undergo this dangerous mission, they both provide a wide range of weapons that were in the basement where they were in.
The sister runs and stabs, and baby bro shoots. It's an awesome premise that has tons of potential. Unfortunately it's bogged down by a pay wall system that will suck all the fun out of this jog. Sure Cute Kill is free, but so many other free games on the app store manage to give you a full game without bad pay walls. There are three modes to play, but none are worth your time since the pay wall will destroy your ability to progress in two of them.
As you progress through the game, you will have a chance to upgrade your weapons, and when you do, you will often find yourself woefully under powered. Weapon upgrades are gated in such a way that you will always be under powered. Then when you max out a weapon's potential you still find yourself under powered. The best way to enjoy the game is to spend real world money. Unfortunately, there is no real way of knowing if the gem-only guns are worth it.
Later on you will have enemies that shoot at you, or charge at you. Both make progressing absolute hell. Your characters need to dodge obstacles and set off traps to advance while the enemies just line up where you need to go and destroy you. You can never kill them fast enough and passing stages becomes more about luck and buying special onetime use items than any real skill. Sure it's great to have an in-game money sink for all the useless currency once you max your guns out, but these items are just over priced.
Now despite "money issue", the graphics are solid, they look much like Japanese anime cartoon, everything looks detailed, and runs smooth. I really love the controls in this game, which ever control option you choose you will be happy to know that the controls are very responsive. If you like reading comics, then you love the story that Cute Kill has, it does tell a story, but through comic panels.
Cute Kill is an additive and fun game to play, don't let the money issue overshadow the game. It nicely tells the story through comic book panels, the graphics are nice, the music sound great, and the gameplay is engaging. Cute Kill is available free at the Google Play Store.
