Movement is quite stiff, making some of the pop-up obstacles difficult to traverse, and causing more restarts than we would like. I cycle: On Thin Ice provides on-screen buttons to guide the peddling nudist left and right, and a jump button that doubles as a parachute toggle. If only your time guiding Dennis through this space was as pleasing as the visuals. Accompanying these visuals are a collection of deep, rich sound effects, which combine with the unusual imagery to seriously striking effect. Other landscapes live somewhere between complete abstraction and a hyper-stylised reality, with buildings floating in mid-air and. Some stages, like the crystal caves, are more simplistic, featuring morphing shapes and only a couple colours. Right off the bat, you will notice the presentation. Then Dennis gets hit by a fish, and start having actual hallucinations.

Originally we thought the game might be showing us a dream or nightmare scenario.

Icycle: On Thin Ice is game about a naked man named Dennis, who finds himself riding a tricycle through ever-shifting landscapes. Narky birds with porky vendettas hungry green monsters which subsist entirely on dangling sugar lozenges вЂ“ to us, these things are just another day in the App Store. As iOS gamers, we've been exposed to some weird scenarios over the years.

Icycle on thin ice