But ngmoco has added its own gameplay touches. You've got royal blobs that won't follow orders, you have gates you have to manually open for your blobs, you can even split up the crew with a swipe across the screen to select the blobs you want to control. Not to mention that rotating the iPhone to tilt the land just feels better than fiddling with the PSP's shoulder buttons.
As I said, the presentation is cutesy, but it's also extremely well done. Between that and the deceptively deep gameplay, Rolando rises above a lot of the App Store chaff and feels like a full, fleshed out game more than a tech demo -- well worth the $4.99 asking price.
As has been proved so many times before, the very best iPhone games are the ones that really utilize the device's unique input methods. In Rolando, we have perhaps the most striking example yet of a game that couldn't have been done better on any other platform.
