So You Two….. You To-Fu? | To-Fu Collection Review

<p>For a good while now&comma; mobile phone gamers have been enjoying the simple but addictive puzzle game&comma; <em>To-Fu&colon; The Trials of Chi<&sol;em>&comma; along with its sequel&comma; <em>To-Fu 2<&sol;em>&period; Now&comma; those of us who don&&num;8217&semi;t play much on our phones can have a chance to play through these hit titles as Rising Star Games has crammed both onto one DS cartridge&period; Behold&colon;<em>To-Fu Collection<&sol;em>&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23250" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23250" style&equals;"width&colon; 576px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tofu-tofu-collection-review&sol;to-fu&lowbar;collection&lowbar;screenshot&lowbar;1&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-23250"><img class&equals;" wp-image-23250 " src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06134344&sol;To-Fu&lowbar;Collection&lowbar;Screenshot&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"To-Fu Collection Screenshot 1" width&equals;"576" height&equals;"432" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23250" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">I would make a joke about playing with your food&comma; but I don&&num;8217&semi;t think tofu counts as real food&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The story line of this game&comma; such as it is&comma; revolves around a chunk of anthropomorphic tofu who desires to be a master of chi&period; To do this&comma; he must traverse over one hundred levels of increasing complexity&period; Every level includes different challenges and an evolving rotation of environmental hazards&comma; such as spike walls&comma; ice walls&comma; portals and conveyor belts &&num;8211&semi; just to name a few&period; Levels are filled with a number of blue orbs which you can collect to unlock an impressive number of rewards&comma; including bonus levels and different costumes&period; Collecting the chi orbs is not required to complete the level&comma; but grabbing them all is addictive and adds a decent level of replay value&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You&&num;8217&semi;ll finish the level once you&&num;8217&semi;re able to fling To-Fu into a floating&comma; pink kitty head&period; <em>No&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not kidding&period; <&sol;em>Stretching To-Fu and flinging him across the screen translates perfectly to the DS&period; The detection was spot-on&comma; and I can only remember a handful of times in which I felt the game wasn&&num;8217&semi;t responding accurately to my stylus&period; However&comma; due to the age of my DS screen&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m more inclined to cite that as the real issue&comma; rather than the game itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I spent along time with this game and the first few hours consistently offered up new and interesting challenge&comma; but after a while&comma; repetition began to set in&period; I suppose it&&num;8217&semi;s the nature of mobile games to be designed for bite sized gaming sessions &lpar;no pun intended&rpar; but when I sit down with my DS&comma; I like to be able to sink some time into it&period; <em>To-Fu Collection<&sol;em> certainly offered enough content to fill that time&comma; though the lack of variety often left me feeling frustrated and longing for a change in the formula&period; Despite its fun and solid gameplay&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ve really seen all the game has to offer after the first twenty levels&period; However&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re a huge fan of the core mechanics&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll be happy to know that the game features over two hundred levels to complete&period; Unfortunately&comma; <em>To-Fu 2<&sol;em> is largely the same as its predecessor&comma; furthering that sense of repetition across both games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A handful of bonus levels can be unlocked and <em>To-Fu Collection<&sol;em> even takes a page out of the <em>Angry Birds<&sol;em> playbook by offering some seasonal based levels&period; These extra levels largely boil down to cosmetic differences&comma; such as the Halloween levels replacing the chi orbs with floating jack-o-lanterns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23251" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23251" style&equals;"width&colon; 576px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tofu-tofu-collection-review&sol;to-fu&lowbar;collection&lowbar;screenshot&lowbar;2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-23251"><img class&equals;" wp-image-23251 " src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06134333&sol;To-Fu&lowbar;Collection&lowbar;Screenshot&lowbar;2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"To-Fu Collection Screenshot 2" width&equals;"576" height&equals;"432" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23251" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Later levels include more challenging designs and interesting environmental platforms to test out&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>All in all&comma; I really enjoyed my time with <em>To-Fu Collection<&sol;em>&period; Its stretching and flinging mechanic was simple and fun&comma; the level design was challenging&comma; and the &&num;8220&semi;pick-up &amp&semi; play&&num;8221&semi; experience was executed solidly&period; The game makes a perfect leap from the phone screen to the DS screen and it is well suited for short bursts of gaming&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re looking for a fun and challenging puzzler to pass the time while waiting for your pizza&comma; you can certainly do worse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;