Indiana Stone: The Brave and The Boulder Review By: Dan Papa

“Indiana Stone: The Brave and The Boulder”

Mobile App Review

     Have you ever wanted to play as the enemy in an endless runner game?  Well now you can!  Indiana Stone: The Brave and The Boulder is a tilt and tap endless runner for Apple and Android Devices.  The objective of the game is to catch Indiana Jones as the boulder and smash him, while saving the golden idol that Jones stole.  The game has four different modes; Story Mode, Challenge Mode, Quick roll, and Endless Mode.   Each mode offers tons of replayability and fun.  You can also unlock different “skins” for the boulder such as a drum, an eyeball, a barrel, or even a disco ball!  You play in different locations like Egypt, China, Indiana, and Persia.

     The game’s art style is also quite impressive.  In most ways, the graphics of the game remind me of Mindcraft.   The music of the game doesn’t have lyrics but it is very catchy and makes you hum and shake your head along to it while playing the game.  There is also a power-up in the game called “POW” which basically allows you, the player/boulder to gain a super speed boost and ultimately catch up to Jones.   “POW” is charged through hitting enemies.  The enemies in the game actually resemble things from the Indiana Jones movies such as Indians, a snake, a bat, swinging axes, and pillars you have to dodge and jump over.  Other obstacles include spiky spinning pillars that go up and down and spinning saw blades.

     The game’s wonderful art style and concept are what really make it quite a gem of an app.  Indiana Stone is a beautiful 9 bit styled endless runner that deserves to be in an app museum.  This game expresses hilarity, endless running, and one of the best film series of all time.  This game just oozes with replayability too.  Going back to the modes; challenge mode is used to unlock new types of boulders mostly while other boulders can be unlocked by beating story mode on a certain difficulty, etc.  The games story mode is quite short and only took me about 15-20 minutes to complete.  While it was short and some of the different locations felt kind of repetitive, I still thoroughly enjoyed the game.  I rate the game an 8.5 out of 10.