One of the great things about classics is that they're readily available. While you'd be hard pressed to find a copy of Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu for the NES, a game almost no one has even heard of (myself included, until my wife showed me hers), you can get Mario 3 on your refrigerator and play Doom 2 inside of a keyboard. Sega is particularly giving with their legacy titles in the mobile arena, as is Square Enix, even if the latter charges an arm and a leg for the privilege. But while those games are timeless to some, new blood needs to come in every so often and keep them in check, even if they aren't particularly unique mechanically. Le Parker: Sous Chef Extraordinaire [$2.99] is comprised of a lot of mechanics found in the aforementioned classics, but its presentation of those concepts is effortless.
Le Parker's premise is odd, but welcoming. Despite the fact that the titular chef looks like a contemporary master of cuisine, the story actually has a weird fantasy type angle. Parker is a chef, that much is true, who has crafted a magical recipe (the lightest meringue ever), that is in the charge of the princess of a mystical land. But the king isn't content with this arrangement and wants it all to himself, so he kidnaps the princess, steals the recipe, and banishes Parker. That's where you come in with a series of platforming stages to essentially be the Mario to the king's Bowser.
While the game has Mario mechanics (it even has the Power Balloon from Super Mari...