SuperRope is one of those iPhone games that keeps you coming back for more.  Your character is Pigger by default, but I have opted for the more risqué Mr Sausage, who wears a bread bun like a jacket and seems to have the general demeanour and appearance of a stunted Peperami.  Mr Sausage (or whoever) constantly climbs a rope and your controls are simply to jump left or right with a swipe of the finger.  Craneballs Studios, the game's developer, calls this "simple yet addictive", however I firmly believe that simple is addictive by its own nature.

You collect coins, stars and power-ups on the way up and get to spend these rewards in the store, where things are generally priced at 1,000 funky stars, which are actually quite hard to come by.  Of course, you can spend your own hard-earned cash on funky stars in order to accellerate a wider experience of the game, which is free in the App Store, but if you were to be without cash, then your progress through the game will be slow indeed.

Power-ups seem to be fairly generic and strangely familiar if you've ever played DoodleJump or MegaJump, from which this game appears to borrow heavily in its format and look.  Magnets to allow you to draw coins towards you, rockets to allow for a faster ascent and even a helicopter hat will actually make you want to play those other games after having certain memories of why they were so good.  That's not to say that SuperRope is bad, because it isn't, but it is rather derivative and appears to be very hopeful of riding the coat-tails of the success of the other two titles mentioned above.

All in all, it's satisfactorily fun, but you can't help but feel that they've been stingey and cheeky in making other levels and enhanced power-ups unlockable by such a high number of in-game currency, pushing you to spend real currency for a better game.  But then, it is free, so what can you expect.  There really is no such thing as a free lunch.

3/5