That said, the game is also almost painfully easy. The overall experience feels fleshed out, even with just two dozen levels. For example, one section has Leo floating around enormous, spiked iron balls while a stiff breeze carries him upward, forcing you to inflate/deflate your way through. Pleasantly simple platforming mechanics and levels that maximize their use make for a brilliant combination.
Its inventive design is evident as early as the first level, in which Leo needs to slide through a narrow track and inflate to push a switch and open doors. The best courses feel like part of a larger machine, with cogs, gears and switches in Leo's path. With only 20 standard courses (as well as four bonus challenge levels), Leo's Fortune manages to feel creative in its design throughout, never pausing long enough to feel stale. Leo's accentuated voice adds a layer of attractiveness to the whole package, especially as he mutters, grunts and chortles his way past stretches of dangerous obstacles and death-pits. The environments include natural and man-made obstacles, like twisting caverns and swinging wooden platforms, all of which are smoothly detailed and draped with a lovely natural backdrop of trees, ruins and mountains. The game hits that sweet spot required of platformers, where your instincts and intuition align to the physics of the environment, making it simple to gauge leaps and understand Leo's limitations.Īs such, Leo's Fortune is at its best when your instincts take over, while still offering enough creative design to maintain your interest, the same way that a veteran Sonic player might skip through Green Hill Zone. The alternative scheme swaps out the sliding mechanics out for virtual buttons, but I found the default method instantly accessible on an iPad Mini, and I was easily able to navigate dangerous, spike-filled caves, looping tracks and distant leaps of faith without any real issue. Sliding up with your right thumb causes Leo to jump and inflate, and sliding down forces him back to the Earth. The default scheme (the one that works best) has players sliding their left thumb back and forth to push the fuzzy hero forward and backward. Leo's Fortune offers two control schemes, one of which meets the challenge of overcoming the issues platform games tend to have on touch-only devices.
The story wouldn't normally be noteworthy in an iOS platformer like Leo's Fortune, but it left an impression on me in its final chapter. Leo hypothesizes the fate of his gold while considering those close to him, each having lost something of material value in their lives, as suspects. It's a charming tale, one narrated by Leopold in an attractive sounds-like-Russian-if-you're-American accent. The game's brief, unadorned story only serves as connective tissue throughout the 20 primary/story campaign levels. At its heart, Leo's Fortune is a beautiful side-scrolling platformer, challenging players to slide and leap past spiky obstacles and solve simple, puzzling contraptions while collecting gold coins along the way. Actually, make that a rich blue ball of fur named Leopold, who sets out on a journey to demand the return of his missing gold from other fuzzy blobs he's related to in one way or another. Leo's Fortune stars a blue ball of fur with a mustache.
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