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Another one of Kenta Cho’s marvelous independently developed shooters has made its way to the iPhone. Tumiki Fighters ($0.99) joins Cho’s previous games rRootage and Noiz2sa in the iTunes App Store.
Tumiki Fighters is an imaginitive horizontally scrolling shooter in which defeated enemies can be attached to your ship to increase your firepower. A few minutes into the game, you’ll find your once-tiny ship transformed into a screen-filling Death Katamari. It’s awesome.
While attaching dozens of downed enemies to your craft gives you enough firepower to take out pretty much anything that gets in your way, it also makes you a bigger target. Players can retract all attached ships at any point during gameplay, however, adding a degree of strategy.
Tumiki Fighters is one of Cho’s most popular shooters — it saw an upgraded Wii port last year (under the title Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy), and remains a fun and worthwhile play for any fan of shoot’em-ups. The original (and free!) PC version is available at Cho’s website, if you’d like to give it a shot before dropping 99 cents on the iPhone version.
