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I now dub this “iPhone Game Review” weekend, as I realize there are a lot of cool games I haven’t written about.

Like, say, Super Mega Worm.

Twitters was all going on about this game, so I had to pick it up. I must say, I’m glad I did. I’m not usually one for Arcade action, but this is a game where said action is too good to pass up. It’s hilarious, frantic fun, and a great time.

Basically, humans suck, and are polluting the earth, so Mother Nature unleashes you, the Super Mega Worm, to destroy all humans. You do this by leaping dramatically out of the ground to eat humans and destroy vehicles. You can bounce off of vehicles for extra air time, and can eventually fire EMP blasts and mouth lasers to help you destroy everyone. However, you have a life bar, and the humans don’t just sit there and let you eat them. This bar is constantly draining, and is hurt by attacks, but you regain life by eating humans and animals, and causing destruction. This keeps you from being able to turtle: you have to constantly be balls-to-the-wall destructive, which works, as I would hide and slowly pick targets if I was given the option. This would be a lot less fun in the long term than the crazy explosions and such that occur as the game is now.

The main benefit of Super Mega Worm is the progression. It’s an arcade game, sure, and designed around getting high scores. However, there is also a level progression, and your Worm levels up as you go along, gaining new abilities and increasing the power of old ones, while the human forces slowly amass more weapons and give you new challenges. This makes it so that even I, who doesn’t care about high scores, feel like I’m accomplishing something as I play. It’s a great way to meet people who don’t want to top a high score list halfway, and help them to enjoy the game, and I really appreciate it.

Like many iPhone games that are unsure what to do, Super Mega Worm offers many control schemes. I found the virtual d-pad the easiest, but that’s because I’m the most used to using such a d-pad. The slider option, as seen in the video, also works extremely well. It just takes a little to wrap your mind around how it actually moves the worm. Either way, something will work for you, and while precision is nice, most of the time you’re just trying to deal with so many things happening at once that it doesn’t really matter.

Super Mega Worm is just a distraction. It’s not “artistic” or even particularly unique. But it is just extremely polished, extremely solid, and full of amazing, amazing action. It is a fucking fun distraction. As someone who doesn’t normally get into arcade games, I played this solid for several days during my downtime. It was certainly worth my time, and I think it would be worth yours.