Apple Arcade review #34: Painty Mob
I’ve given Painty Mob a couple of tries now and I…don’t understand what’s going on? It’s like every time I open Snapchat: there are things happening in the GUI and explosions of colour and blobby creatures are homing in on me (this is where that Snapchat analogy falls through) and I honestly don’t know what to do. If there was a tutorial, I missed it, and now I’m lost.
You play a colourful blob and there are other colourful blobs and you’re supposed to paint things? There’s virtual joystick on one side of the screen and a button on the other, and that’s it. It’s frantic and vibrant and I don’t get it.
Passing judgement on this game from that perspective is probably unfair, but that’s the nature of this experiment: I’m giving each game a chance to grab me, and if it doesn’t, I have to put it aside or I’ll never be able to review a HUNDRED PLUS games in sixteen weeks.
I’ll just say this: Painty Mob, like Snapchat, is a young man’s game. I’m no longer that man.