If you want massively in-depth reviews of hardware, with detail a few steps beyond the “OK, this is almost too much information," AnandTech has been the place to go since they launched 16 years ago. Their iPad Air review continues this tradition, and while the review is basically in line with the vibe of all the other reviews on the internet (“The iPad Air is great!") what is of particular interest to us is the amount of effort Anand went into with testing the GPU of the iPad Air.
AnandTech notes that the A7 in the iPad Air is clocked higher in the iPhone 5s, with many of the benchmarks show the iPad Air taking a small lead over the iPhone 5s and a 40% to 70% improvement over the iPad 4. Interestingly, when it comes to rendering triangles on screen, the iPad 4 actually pulls ahead. Anand suspects this is because of differences in how the A7 and A6X handle their rendering pipelines. That might seem bad, but the author mentions that they “haven’t seen any real world cases where it matters yet."
[via AnandTech]
Cool, I started playing this on Ouya, but that thing started gathering dust pretty soon. I guess my PS3 controller is just too close to it. And the 20+ SNES games on my Ouya don't help either. Anyway, cool to know. Ittle Dew rocked. Very well written. I like that in a game.
I can't believe they didn't use the pun in the article title.
I thought they did, just didn't spell it out.
They didn't use the pun explicitly in the title, but it'll do.
I see what you did there.
they should have said "but it'll do" instead of "this will suffice"
I see what you did there.
so far this is a fun little title on mobile. was looking forward to this when i saw an article on this a month back. great animation and fun gameplay. also, the snarky characters are hilarious haha
This game is shit
Why so angry?
Why so serious?
I'd love to see Alundra on iOS.
I love to see ur mom in bed
You must really be into some weird shit then. Good luck to you.
Really like this game. Surprised the game doesn't mention the replay value here. It took me just under three hours to complete the main adventure, but three more to complete the optional master dungeon and find all the collectable items. I'm now trying to complete it three more times with each pair of quest items: there are three in total, but the game can be completed with all three or any two of them.
Each different play through forces you to find new routes or find different ways to complete puzzles you already solved. It's a seriously impressive piece of design that lets you collect the items in any order and complete the game in so many ways. Not even the Zelda designers manage to give that level of freedom.
Also, this game is funny!
thanks for pointing this out, there is certainly several more hours of replay to get the achievements and the achievements offer up quite a bit of challenge as one item can not be purchased and used.
Reading the review again, i'm not entirely sure Shaun noticed the master dungeon at all.
This is a pathetic junkware
I always struggle a little bit with what things I should or shouldn't spoil in the review. Especially with this game, there are so many pleasant and/or funny surprises, I wanted to make sure I didn't ruin anyone's joy of discovering these things on their own.
If you've read the comments, you've already had it spoiled, so I don't mind talking about it a little. The master dungeon is awesome and adds a lot to the game if you re-run it with every possible item combination. I was very impressed with the puzzle design in this game and I hope that came through in the review text.
And to the guy above, I didn't make the obvious pun in the title because I try to avoid low-hanging fruit whenever I can resist it, but it was really hard this time, I will admit!
Interesting. I didn't think of the master dungeon as a spoiler as I noticed its existence very early on. Everything in my post is there in the game's achievement list for anyone who buys this game (which should be everybody!) so didn't feel like I was revealing any secrets.
Yeah, no worries. I just try to err on the side of caution in a review. Probably went a little too safe on this one, but again, I just loved every little surprise so much that I wanted people to experience that, too.
I tend to avoid achievement lists until I've cleared a game once to avoid knowing too much, especially with a nice little adventure game like this one. But I know that's not everyone's style, haha.
I am getting a piratedd copy off A P P C A K E
Really loving the art style in the trailer. Reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. I'll probably get this once I finish Limbo and get bored of Football Heroes.