Back in the early days of the App Store, developers Raptisoft had made a name for themselves in creating intriguing and innovative experiences for the platform, and helped to bring credence to the iPhone as a legitimate gaming device. Solomon's Keep [Free], for example, was one of the key dual stick Diablo-influenced titles that were so prominent in the teething years of touch screen gameplay, and managed to gather a cult following through substantial support in the form of subsequent updates that kept on improving the game for years afterwards. However, it was Hoggy [Free] that left the most profound expression on my suggestible thirteen year old mind. Despite taking a few thematic influences from the American version of Super Mario Bros 2., Hoggy used unique gravity-flipping controls that made it a truly memorable puzzle-platformer title, and one that is still playable to this day. A whole seven years later, Raptisoft have announced a sequel, titled Hoggy 2 to be released in November 2016, alongside a Steam Greenlight campaign to hopefully get the game onto PC and Mac screens around the same time.
While not looking that aesthetically different from the game we reviewed back in 2009, Hoggy 2 does appear to have a lot of content, and will hopefully bring the fantastic core elements from the original into 2016, and the wildly different App Store environment that seven years of change has created. Firstly, a level editor is present, which in a preview video looks surprisingl...