Good Game Get! Spirit

Spirit may be the best deal in the app store right now. Seriously. It’s only 99¢!

Now lots of apps in the in the app store for the iPhone and iPod touch are 99¢; this I know, but Spirit is polished contemporary retro arcade goodness.

The premise is simple, it’s a top down score chaser with typical alien enemies with fairly recognizable behavior, hence the classic feel. The catch, and it is an awesome catch is that you have only one way of destroying enemies, and no you can’t shoot them, nope.

Your only defense is flying away from them, and your only offense is making circles quickly to form space-time holes to send them into another dimension. Once the field is clear of enemies, you too, move on to the next dimension and continue on until the game’s difficulty takes a toll on your limited lives.

The controls are spectacular, you just offset your finger from the spirit and begin to move your finger and fly around. Excellently simple and well executed.

The art style and graphics engine are great too, with great particle effects and a pseudo 3D top-down view where the field is manipulated by your death and when you create space-time holes.

Totally nerdy looking and sci-fi, but completely fitting and overall cool. Definitely the best score chaser on the iPhone, next to Canabalt.