![]() ![]() It allows for easy testing and a certain degree of trial and error, but to truly excel at this game you’ll find yourself looking at real bridges and studying their design. Switching back and forth between construction mode and the play mode where time resumes and people attempt to cross the bridge is done with the push of a button. There’s no consequence for failure but nonetheless the tension mounts as you watch your bridge take weight, each section of the bridge changing color from green to the telltale red that indicates it has come perilously close to breaking. The most fun for me was building trap bridges, intended to collapse at the before enemy forces could reach the other side, sending them plummeting to their doom. Those barbaric foes I mentioned will assail your bridges with stones, making defense as much a priority as stability of the structure. Later missions incorporate other objectives. Most often this means building a bridge with a fairly tight limit on your resources. One is simply the basic satisfactory completion required to continue while the other is the harder, brass ring objective. Luckily the “undo” button solves these problems, but repeating this process several times grows tiresome.Īs puzzle games have always done to up the challenge, there’s two tiers to every mission. When you think you’ve built a strong, sturdy structure you can hit the play button and see how well you planned. Occasionally the double-tap-to-delete function seemed wonky on the sensitivity and I’d delete several sections that I intended to keep. The different materials can be selected by a menu that pops in from the side and there’s a handy “clear bridge” button if you want to start from scratch. Adding more to your bridge is a matter of dragging your finger from the starting point to the ending point. Below and on the side are additional points where you can anchor the various building materials. On each side of the screen are the cliffs and a white line connects them to indicate where the bridge segments should be laid. ![]() Though stones are the sturdiest but only useable on certain spots and can only be placed vertically you’re not going to get away with building a bridge of pure stone. You’ve got two thicknesses of wood, ropes and stones. This being medieval times your building materials are severely limited. Each bridge must cross a span of varying length and be strong enough to hold the weight of men, horses, troop-laden carts and catapults. Building bridges isn’t as simple as it sounds. The other one percent is spent reading the royal dialogue and cursing the cruel whims of gravity. That’s what you’ll be doing ninety nine percent of the time. If the idea of building bridges sounds utterly boring to you and you were hoping for some unusual twist, then I’m sorry to say there’s not going to be much for you here. That’s where they turn to the player, known as the “royal architect”. You learn that the king wants to wage war on their barbaric enemies, but in order to do so supplies must be gathered, allies recruited and troops sent forth. In addition to adding a logical framework for the puzzles these exchanges were genuinely entertaining and widened my smile upon success. In Bridge Constructor you’re treated instead to a series of silly conversations between a brash, impetuous king and his level-headed advisor. Many puzzle games skip any story or plot, which is usually not a problem. Rather than testing your reflexes or party management skills this game challenges you to think and plan with real-world efficiency. Bridge Constructor: Medieval is the most fun I’ve had on my android device in a long time that didn’t involve aliens, hideous mutants or warring armies. Something truly unique and exciting comes along only occasionally. A good puzzle game is hard to find, especially on mobile devices.
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