Cupidity

Looking for love? Well take heart, so does everyone else in this game of Cupidity.

You play the role of Cupid the winged match-maker cherub of love himself complete with fluffy cloud at the top of the screen. The aim of the game is to move the crosshairs around the floor and to get the timing of your shot just right so that the people who are wandering beneath you get hit by your arrows of love and ‘get a spring in their step and colour in their life’.

The animation is pretty good and the detail to the background is superb. The people have an air of looking like characters from South Park and move at various speeds which will make this them much more difficult to aim at.

You start with a full row of 10 hearts which with every missed shot (and for letting people get away) will cause you to lose one – lose them all and you will finish the game. However, if you’re quite a sharp-shooter, you will gain any lost hearts and achieve a very respectable score.

Every game you play, you will receive a score, time played (broken down into hours, minutes and seconds), accuracy (in a percentage) and the total score. This gives a nice depth to the game which will offer you an added edge and objective to beat for the future games played.

You can submit your scores globally and compare your rankings worldwide. Again this offers you a bit more of a competitive nature to the game and means you can play time and time again trying to better your last score and come top of the class.

The game pauses itself if you leave it unattended for a while which is a nice feature that’s been given to the game. This means should you be interrupted you won’t lose too many lives if you fail to pause the game yourself.

Like I said previously the graphics and particularly the background are nicely animated and change colours as the sun rises and sets, with even a bird that flies by. This offers a slight distraction to the rest of the game – particularly shooting people with your arrows – which could cost you the game!

The controls are pretty lousy to be honest, you can only go left, or right, or up or down – not a combination e.g. diagonally and moving the crosshairs is quite slow and arduous which means that you have little or no opportunity to zap everyone on the screen. This does make the game a little frustrating at points but also as you have quite ample opportunity to regain any lost hearts it’s nothing too serious and probably was done deliberately as part of the game.

Overall this is a fun game and enjoyable but quite repetitive and would have benefited from mini-games and different scenery as it all looks very samey and does impact the novelty factor.

Rating 73%

Positives

Entertaining and friendly to first time gamers

Enjoyable and challenging

Nice scoring system

Negatives

Slow controls

No different backgrounds or scenery

Little variation in game play e.g. no mini-games