AFTERPAD

New: Clash of Puppets

Clash of Puppets launched a few weeks ago with support for standard and extended MFi controllers, and it’s one of the better examples of a game that is improved through the use of hardware controls.

Touch screen platformers aren’t easy – you either wind up with true platformers that are very difficult to control or you wind up with touch first platformers that have been stripped of much of the fun and depth.

Clash of Puppets isn’t a great game. Although it has excellent graphics, gameplay, and production values, those strengths are squandered on somewhat boring levels. The thing is, playing this game with hardware controls feels better than playing many “better” games that rely on touch controls. That isn’t a minor strength – that’s important. Playability makes up for a lot, and Clash of Puppets plays great with an iOS game controller.