Minigore

Like many other game releases, I fired up Minigore only to get some initial impressions on the game. After playing for nearly one hour I realized I had gone well beyond the initial impression stage and into review territory. So here I am, writing a review that wasn’t even planned.

With the release of Minigore for the iPhone Mountain Sheep has turned the gaming world upside down by creating a whole new game genre, Furry Survival Shooter, FSS for short. In Minigore your objective is simple, shoot anything that has fur and don’t get eaten by the furries.

Minigore uses dual directional pads for movement and shooting. I’m not exactly the biggest fan of D-pads for iPhone games, but Minigore is an exception. Believe it or not the controls actually work very well. I had no trouble controlling our in-game hero John Gore.

There is only one stage in Minigore, but don’t worry you’ll get plenty of challenging gameplay out of that one stage. The stage continuously increases in difficulty as time passes, so eventually everyone dies, so your goal is to reach the highest score possible, and dominate the leader boards.

Minigore includes three weapons to fend off those nasty little critters machine gun, double-barreled shotgun and exploding booby trap. The last weapon is actually more of a power up, they appear randomly on the map and you have to shoot them to set off the explosion. Speaking of power-ups, if you pick up 3 four-leaf clovers for a limited time you turn into a furry yourself. When you are in furry mode you can’t be killed, so make Pac-Man proud and eat all the other furries around you.

You’ll encounter four types of furries; the small Minifurry, the Furry, the Lamentable Giant Furry and the Firefurry. The Minifurry is the bread and butter of the furry army, you’ll see tons of these guys, as long as you have decent aim they should pose little threat. The Furry and Lamentable Giant Furry are a lot like Russian nested dolls, they all contain smaller furries inside them. So if you kill a Lamentable Giant Furry, then Furries pop out, if you kill the Furry, then Minifurries pop out.

The most devious of the furries is the Firefurry, they move  fast and are hard to spot since they are the same size as a Minifurry. I’m not even kidding with you guys, those Firefurries will pop out of the bushes when you least expect them. All my deaths in Minigore have been at the hands of Firefurries, you’ve been warned!

So what makes Minigore so compelling? That’s definitely a good question, one that I struggled with myself. It’s the package as a whole, everything is well executed, the art style, music, voice acting, gameplay, etc. The game was really easy to get into, and as I mentioned before I wasn’t even planning to play this game for more than five minutes, but I ended up playing for nearly one hour. If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, for one day give up your candy bar, soda, bubble gum, or whatever else you would normally spend a dollar on and buy Minigore instead, you’ll love it.

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