Cristina Vee is a very popular voice actress, providing dialogue for many characters in anime and video games.  And now she’s in her own game!  Help her catch falling objects in space as she switches from a cosmic idol singer to an anime magical girl in this downloadable game for iOS devices (reviewed on iPad here).

So who is Cristina Vee anyway?  Well, I was a good little journalist and actually did some research before writing this review.  But it doesn’t matter because you can just look her up on the Internet anyway.  Turns out she’s done voices in a ton of anime cartoons that I’ve never even heard of.  But then, I don’t really watch a lot of anime.  My expertise is gaming, and it looks like she’s done quite a few voices for that medium, too.

Let’s see, there’s Final Fantasy Type-0 and League of Legends, eh, never played those, myself.  At least she voiced characters I know about in BlazBlue and Skullgirls.  Oh here’s a good one.  She is also the voice of Shantae in Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse and the upcoming Half-Genie Hero.  I really like the Shantae games, so that’s pretty neat.

So in her own game, you move around a cartoon version of herself with your finger as she flies through space.  All of the voices are done by her, of course, and even the background music is a song with her vocals.  Anyway, if you tap on her, she’ll change from a cosmic idol singer to an anime magical girl. Or in simpler terms, she’ll change from blue to purple.  You get points for nabbing falling objects in space, but here’s the catch.  They have to be the same color that she is.  It kind of reminds me of the gameplay mechanic in Treasure’s classic shooter Ikaruga.

If you touch an object that isn’t her color, she’ll glitch out and you’ll lose a life balloon.  Be on the lookout for falling life balloons to refill your health.  If you lose all your balloons, it’s Game Over.  You can save your highest score and try to beat it, but that’s about all there is to the game.  I have to say that the price point is a teeny bit high for such a simple game, and it can sometimes be hard to tell the blues from the purples.  But if you’re a big fan of Christina Vee or classic WayForward style art, you might as well download it anyway.  Support the things you like, you know?  As for me, I’ll just sit here and be jealous that I don’t have MY own game starring me!  Ha ha!

Kid Factor:

Nothing violent here.  If you hit the wrong colored objects, your character just ‘glitches out’ and when you run out of energy, she just kind of ‘poofs’ away in a harmless implosion.  Reading skill is helpful for the instructions at the beginning, but the game is pretty easy to figure out just by playing anyway.

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