“Put simply, this is my favorite puzzle game in the App Store. The puzzles have several unique gameplay elements that add a lot to the game. And yes, the puzzles can be a bit of challenge at times, but they are not frustrating. What really sets this game apart, however, is the wit and style of the game. The presentation, with elements resembling the paintings of Mondrian is first-rate, and the character of Mondrian himself guiding you through the puzzles adds much to the enjoyment of the game. His dialog often gave me a chuckle, and gave me even more reason to play the game. Well worth the price, a highly recommended game for any puzzle fan.”
-velosmith298
Mondrian: A Work of Art!
*****
“I wasn’t sure about this game as it is difficult to grasp the puzzles and gameplay from the screenshots or even the online video, but grabbing it up for the snow day sale was a great decision as this has turned out to be one of my favorite puzzles games. It’s beautifully presented, funny, and brilliant. The puzzles will have you scratching your head as the ghost of Piet Mondrian will have you laughing out loud with his caustic remarks and chastizing. Well worth the price, get this game now if you like tough puzzlers and beautiful visuals!”
Let it snow! More than a puzzler, a work of art. With an attitude
*****
“I am always a bit dubious when it comes to puzzlers. First I am a bit too lazy and find it easier to take a dual stick shooter. It’s never easy to concentrate with 3 kids around the house. Great ideas for puzzlers can easily become dull and boring if the execution isn’t right and the presentation boring. I love Mondrian’s art in a Museum, (I recommend the Gemeente Museum in The Hague, perfect setting) but it’s been so overdone as a concept (and always missing the point) that I was very reluctant. This game has just got everything right. Presentation is beautiful and clear, the game concept is solid and deep, gameplay is very well suited to the touch device, you can play your own music. Add online scores for time and there is nothing left to say but 5 stars.”
Mondrian is on sale. SALE! It’s 99 cents today because, hey, it’s snowing here in New York and New Jersey and there’s nothing much else to do than play the best modern art, puzzle game in the APP store.
5 ***** A masterpiece
Challenging and unique puzzles is what the iDevices are all about and Mondrian does not disappoint. First, it has an exquisite presentation based on the artist’s style. Mondrian himself guides you through the toughest puzzles, even helping you out when stuck. The levels themselves are quite hard, but the joy you derive when solving one, is of the highest caliber. As others have stated, you will probably have a hard time solving them all, but it’s completly worth it. Give it a try and get ready to embark in one of the most challenging journeys on the iDevice.
- by themendoz 02/02/2010
I’m surprised how much attention our game has gotten around the world. We’ve had some reviews in Japan, appearance on the charts in Holland and the Netherlands, I think, and now a glowing review from Sweden.
Below is a Google translation of the review from Gamezine.se:
Mondrian game to the iPhone could easily be dismissed as a gimmick at first glance. Just listen to the presentation: The long-deceased painter Piet Mondrian haunt the world as a ghost, doomed to be in limbo until it restores his unfinished work which he could travel on to “the great art gallery in the sky”.
Idiotic? Sure, but also quite fun. And if you scratch a bit on the surface you find the humor also a rewarding, deeply and really, really difficult puzzle game.
The challenges, therefore, based on Mondrian’s paintings characteristic of white and colored rectangles, and the idea is that you should move the rectangles to their intended locations on the canvas. Moving geometric shapes into a given position through a limited number of steps may sound more like a IQ test. But the difference between the game and tests is that instead of being circumspect about their IQ are offended by the Dutch artist’s ghost. Every time you fail, Mondrian namely to explain to you that you are not good for, preferably with some Dutch profaniteter involved in fact sarcastic. And fail, you will surely do, over and over again.
My own IQ is sufficient only halfway into the third collection challenges, that is to say 15 tracks. Then it takes an end. If it means I have an appalling low IQ, or that the game is extremely challenging, I leave unsaid.
A little consolation, I find, at least in the quite brilliant trailer below, where the game creators themselves hinta on the game’s absurd difficulty:
So, after many long hours of playing time with Mondrian, I am not even close to being finished. I think it’s time to give up now. The sarcastic ghost wins. But I’ve had fucking fun on the way to my defeat.
You might do better? SEK 22 it cost to find out about it.
Footnote: When I research (read: slösurfade) on Mondrian to see if his insufferable personality in the game is based on the real artist, I found this great quote from one of his old friends:
“He [Mondrian] was just and honest and Dutch and stern, friendly to those who were people of progress, harsh to those who were not, surrealist, fascists, reactionaries, people who tolerated green, purple, orange or any impure.”
I love that line: Idiotic? Sure, but also quite fun.
I think that’s what they voted me in my high school yearbook.
Mondrain can rest in peace knowing that his iDevice game has been transformed into a 5-Dimple work of art.
They give dimples instead of stars. We’re flattered. And all dimply!
The graphics are clean, as you’d expect if you are familiar with Mondrian’s work. Even the game “map” is created in the style of Mondrian’s work, which is an awesome touch.
“Based on the famous Piet Mondrian art, it’s a very simple but deep, interesting, artistic puzzle game. So cool.”
“Just like Piet Mondrian artworks, it’s very simple but deep, interesting, artistic. The rule of the game is very simple, therefore, it’s kinda addictive. Nice idea. Cool design.”
“I just wanted to say that having played through to almost the end of Brazil now, I find this a brilliant game. Really hard, and therefore thoroughly rewarding when you DO actually beat a level. And I (strangely) love it when I am busting with pride at having beaten a level and good old Piet says words to the effect of ‘Well done, but actually you’re cr*p. I could do better than that, and I’m dead’. Lol! And then tells you that a level can be achieved in 24 moves instead of the barely achieved 44 that I used: / This is one cocky ghost, and I will have my vengeance!”
TouchGen.com, an iPhone, iPod Touch Game and Gear Review site, has a review of Mondrian. Check out this quote:
Mondrian is a great game injecting loads of personality, and style into a genre that usually is just associated with blue blocks.
They also say:
Mondrian is a block puzzle with a completely new set of rules.
They give us four stars out of five and it’s another great review for our iPhone puzzle game, Mondrian. I don’t think Mondrian himself got such good reviews back in Holland!
