Fast Finger is a casual game that not only tests your reflexes,
but also your patience. For that reason alone, it is best to play this
game in short bursts. Otherwise, one might be tempted to throw their
device off the roof of the Empire State Building in utter frustration.
Some people will like it and be challenged by its difficulty, but some
people will hate it from the outset and swear never to lay another
finger on their touch screen as long as that app lives inside their
device. You get what I mean.
“Simply speaking, you either love it or hate it.”The simple explanation of what this game is about is that you use your finger to go from one point to another. However, in between, there will be a series of obstacles that are constantly plotting to murder the dot on the screen that denotes your finger movement. So from the starting point, you trace your finger through blades and lasers and missiles to reach the end.
You are given one, two or three stars based on the time it takes for you to navigate the obstacle course. The faster you are, the more stars you get. If you die, the level simply starts over to encourage you to try again and again and again and again until you run out of lives. The maximum number of lives given is 40. If that sounds like a lot of lives, well, it’s really not. In a difficult level, I can run through all 40 lives in under a minute. It doesn’t take very long for you to start and meet an untimely death by the hands of a moving blade.
But I guess that is the beauty of it. In the past few years, we have seen a weird resurgence of ultra-difficult games in players that complain that games are just too easy nowadays. Well if you are one of those people, this is definitely the game for you. The game just works against you all the time and is designed to kill you at any cost.
“With every fit of rage caused by the game though, there is also the ultimate satisfaction of successfully completing an almost impossible level.”So much so that completing a level can give you the urge to jump and start dancing around your room, or to call up your best friend and rub in his/her face. Yes, the thing that will turn most people off, is the very thing that keeps you going for just another try.
I have to applaud the developers, BluBox Games, for their innovative level design. Just when you think it can’t get any harder, they prove you wrong. Every time a new level pops up, it makes me gasp and say “Oh sh-t”. Watching my previous attempts falter and explode into a million pixels gives me an uncomfortable feeling of incompletion that only motivates me to go again.
Seeing how other people accomplish it reinforces the belief that hey, it CAN be done!
If I have managed to pique your interest, or if you just feel like giving this a shot, you can download Fast Finger . My advice, whether you choose to listen or not, is to give it a try. Since it is totally free, and it is a casual game, you can always remove it when you feel sick of it, or just play another game and give it another 40 tries whenever you feel like it.
Score: 4.2/5
