Thank you so much!

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.”

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

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.

See the whole review at AppSmile.com.

Mondrian is a solid puzzler that will make you think, laugh, and hopefully find a new appreciation for art.

This is one title not to be missed by puzzle fans, and is engaging enough for anyone to enjoy.

AppSpy.com reviewed our iPhone and iPod Touch Puzzle Game, Mondrian.

“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.”

A screen shot from theSlick.net

“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!”

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!