It’s Monday and your coffee isn’t quite doing it, I know because mine isn’t either. That’s ok folks, you have nothing to worry about because for a scant $.99 you can team up against other people, in an experience so funky you won’t know what to do with yourselves.
The best way I can describe Funky Smugglers is a skill-based game, similar to Fruit Ninja. You are an airport security scanner, and your “clients” are walking through the x-ray machine with items on their person. Your mission is to avoid the green items, and snag all the reds and throw them out of the machine before the other side is reached. All the while gathering combos and power-ups to keep the game interesting. Best of all, you get to do it to funk music.
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| Keep the green, ditch the red |
Funky Smugglers is great for a quick time waster, and definitely has a challenge tied into it. The first few levels will teach you what you need to know, but the finger movements become much trickier as you progress. Pretty soon you’re dodging and weaving in between scissor storing afros, and suitcases with bombs stashed right next to teddy bears. Touching the teddy bears will of course cost you a life, and missing the bomb will do much the same. No game like this would be complete without power-ups, and Funky Smugglers runs the gammit. You can snag a magnet (which pulls all the red items to you), speed up which makes everyone move quicker and lets you grab higher combos, or slow down which will then let you take your sweet time to gather those massive combos.
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| Is that a plunger in your hair sir? |
The final piece of Funky Smugglers I like is the vs setup. Instead of challenging your friends you choose a side, and your points build up for that team. Today’s choice, Aliens Vs. Predator, and as you can see below the Predators were getting smashed. The first week it was out, you would do Droids vs. Apples, and I’m sure more ideas will come out down the road.
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| Aliens Vs. Predators, yeah this is happening |
Either way this game is a blast, and I recommend dropping the buck whether playing on Android or iOS. Good luck with Monday, and enjoy the game.