Choose Your Weapon

Title: Doodle God
Platform Played On: iPhone
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Date Played: January 2012
Time Played: 1 hour
Completed (Y/N):  No
Score: 3/5

Opinion:
It is hard to call Doodle God a game, but if I had to assign it a category then I would put it in the "marvelously presented matching game" pile.

The game starts with a beautiful and fully narrated (by a voice worthy to be God's voice) doodled mini movie. It goes something like this.

God created 4 elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth. He used Earth to make mountains and plains, he used Water to add lakes and rivers. He used Air to make.. well... air. Everything else that was created came from these four elements.

Then you are given the reins to discover all 248 elements by mixing these 4 elements. For example you can grab Water, and combine it with Fire to produce Vodka (a.k.a firewater). You can take Earth and Seeds to produce a tree, then you can use the Tree and combine it with Fire to produce Coal and Ash.  All of a sudden you have dozens of components that can be mixed and matched to form new discoveries.

It is basically a very well done guessing game. The more and more components you have the harder it is to go through all of the combinations, so it does make you use your noodle a bit; however you could potentially discover all 248 elements by just randomly guessing.

Personally I am impressed by the presentation. The fully voiced intro with so much dialogue was pleasantly surprising. The art is spot on and looks great on a retina iPhone 4 screen. The music is well done and fits the game perfectly.

Beyond the intro movie there is basically no story substance to it. There is that setup and then its basically... here are the elements... GO.

Overall this is a cool game to have on your phone to go to once in a while. Its structure allows for taking months between play sessions and still know whats going on. It is a cool game to show off to friends, since there is the whole factor of.. oh man what if you combine X and Y?  Basically this is a cool little app (currently 99cents). It is fun to mix different things to see what you get, and Doodle God allows you to do that on your phone and not blow up your house with a chemical lab.