Doodle God is a strange game, if it can even be called a game.
It starts off explaining how God created the Earth with the use of the four elements. Doodle God then has the great idea of combining them to see what else he can make.
This is the point where you step in and are given the opportunity to start combining tiles, to start expanding the world.
That is the whole game. You will spend potentially hours combining tiles together to see if you can make new ones.
Where Doodle God will provide entertainment is with the sometimes hilarious quotes, which are given to you when combining certain items.
Doodle God certainly is not a game for everyone. It relies solely on the player feeling rewarded for finally combining the correct tiles. The drive to play on is simply to see what other combinations still exist and strangely that in itself seemed to be enough to make me push on.
Frustration will eventually kick in as it will become difficult to guess what possible combinations are required to progress. Some combinations aren’t logical.
Thankfully the game has a hint option that tells you the group elements you need to combine belong to. The hint function, though greatly appreciated, does beg the question of why it exists if it eliminates the whole point of playing the game.
Some combinations are locked out until you have a certain number of tiles for the game to progress. This can definitely add to frustration as you may have made a mental note of which combinations did not work earlier in the game and may not think to try these later on.
Depending on your ability to find combinations and how often you use hints, the game can take anywhere between three to 10 hours to finish. The level of replay value will come down to how well you remember combinations from your first time through the game.
Doodle God certainly will provide entertainment and its strangely addictive charm might indeed ensnare when you start playing, it’s just a matter of whether you will try the game.
Verdict: 5 out of 10
PS Vita version reviewed - also on iPhone, Windows Phone, Android
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