Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon app for iPhone and iPad
Sir Benfro’s Big Adventure picture book by Emmy Award winning writer and producer of The Simpsons & Futurama Josh Weinstein and creator of Sir Benfro Tim Fishlock is available to buy now!
Visit the Benfro store at sirbenfro.bigcartel.com
Selected by Apple in the App Store Best of 2012
An inventive, hypnotic diversion. – Top Game: The Sunday Times
Its not often a game is released that can truly claim to be art, but Sir Benfros Brilliant Balloon deserves the title – The Observer
I cant get over how good the music and graphics are...a delightful experience. - Touch Arcade
Utterly unique - App of the Day, Gizmodo
A sweet-hearted, lyrical distraction where the journey is its own reward - App of the Day, Eurogamer
One of the most visually original and beautiful games I have ever seen, on any platform. - VGChartz
Guide Sir Benfro and his brilliant balloon through fantastical new worlds filled with weird and wonderful creatures.
As a naturalist, scientist and explorer, Sir Benfro has made some of the most important discoveries of his generation. Without him we would have no idea that instead of laying eggs, the female Stingomp knits her offspring from the laces of old pairs of sneakers.
Fly Sir Benfro through beautiful new lands. Float into forests, across oceans and down into the centre of the Earth. But take care! You’re never far from bumping into the next bizarre beast.
Magical fireflies power Sir Benfro’s balloon. Fly as fast as you can to keep collecting the fireflies and reach the end of each adventure.
- A one touch game control that’s easy to pick up.
- 4 adventures: Yellow Leaves, Forest, Islands and Underground.
- Learn more about the creatures you’ve discovered in the Spotter’s Guide.
- A game for all ages. Three difficulty settings: Beginner, Brilliant and Bonkers.
Pros and cons of Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon app for iPhone and iPad
Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon app good for
Beautiful artful graphics and leaves you yearning for the next level
Not really great as a game, but a fantastic way to relax with an amazing soundtrack and graphics.
Relaxing music and nice drawings in the whole game. :)
Really great song, very inspiring and relaxing, amazing design!
Probaly one of my favorite apps. Great music, actually the only game that I like the sounds and everything. Beautiful design! This game helps me when Im stressed or need to come down, I love it! Everything looks so calming and magical! Awesome game, guys!
Its not a game youll be playing a lot of times, but its surely something youll never forget.
The sound the music the gameplay!! Everything is perfect in this game i realy recomend this game its just perfect
Some bad moments
Overall this is a decent game but to justify being a paid app it needs more in depth content. This game is essentially one of those click-to-ascend click-to-descend type games like Jetpack man or Helicopter rush.
In Sir Benfro you float through the levels until the end by avoiding obstacles and not running out of fuel. It sounds simple enough but this game is frustratingly difficult. Fuel in the game comes in the form of fireflies that you capture with your balloon and they keep you afloat. As you progress, you shed flies and if you run out, its game over. Each level has barely enough fireflies to get you to the end, some of which are impossible to get to. On top of this, there there are many obstacles in the game which if you bump into, bring you to a screeching halt and you also lose a few precious fireflies in the process. This can make the the level impossibly difficult to finish because it takes your floating character forever to achieve any momentum or speed, thus costing more firefly fuel to get back up to speed.
All this would be forgivable if the levels werent so ludicrously long. Theyre almost never ending, and with death almost a certainty at every corner you would think there would be a half way point or checkpoints to continue where you left off. But no, if you die, you start all over. Back. At. The. Beginning. This also wouldnt be so bad if there was more to do in the levels but there isnt. You just float through trying not to hit anything while looking at the odd but interesting visuals and music.
With all that being said the games visuals and music are very unique and very good. However it takes more than that to earn a 5 star rating for a paid app and unfortunately there just enough content. Overall if you buy this app, youll be interested for the first level perhaps, but the rest will start to get dull and very repetitive. Youll wind up more frustrated than anything.
I didnt like the game and my grandchildren3.5 and 6 were not interested in playing it.Starts out too hard to be fun and constant tapping to move.It wasnt for us.
So clever, and somehow both simple and challenging. The soundtrack is great, too!
This game has a fantastic artistic expression deeply whimsical and super fun! Its major good times.
Very simple gameplay. The main attraction is the gorgeous artistic graphics. Good job!
Its definitely different in a good way. It is easy to play with just the right amount of difficulty. I cant explain why but its quite entertaining. I would recommend you download it and try it.
