Apple Arcade review #48: BattleSky Brigade: Harpooner

They really went to town with that name.

“BattleSky Brigade”, colon, deep breath, “Harpooner” is a shoot’em up and, uh, reel’em in with cartoony and colourful graphics, aggressively jolly music, and simple controls. Your intrepid harpooner-rabbit auto-fires their gun when you’re not moving, and you move the rabbit around with your finger. After a while, you get reeled in. Stuff happens! I could have described all of that better.

I was confused to begin with, but there isn’t that much to it. You collect gold coins (sorry, “koins”) and upgrade your dinky barrel-ship with better stuff.

BattleSky can be played in short spurts and it looks pretty nice. There’s even some well-written, and blessedly brief, text-only dialogue. The game didn’t grab me but there’s also nothing wrong with it. It looks and feels like many other cartoony mobile shooters I’ve played, but at least there’s no free-to-play bullshit or timers or ads in this one, so that’s a bonus. It’s a quick distraction, good for a bus trip or boring meeting. Kids may like it. It may even keep you playing. The rabbit is cool. And the name is very long.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/battlesky-brigade-harpooner/id1465210637