Jenga. Jenga. J-J-J-Jenga. Now that you’ve got that Jenga song stuck in your head, you’re ready for a review of Jenga on the iPhone.
The original Jenga was about as simple as games get. As the song goes, you take a block from the bottom, and you put it on top. Or, you can take a block from the middle, then put it on top. Once the tower of wooden blocks falls over, the game ends. When two or more players play, the one who caused the tower to topple is the loser.
The basic gameplay works exactly the same way on the iPhone, with graphics that seem almost excessively beautiful for a game of this type. But there’s one very critical “gotcha” that made the game incredibly frustrating for me — without any sort physical feedback, I found the game almost impossibly difficult compared to the real-world version of the game.
Read on to discover how Jenga proved to be both an unexpected delight and an exercise in frustration.
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