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This is my first app review for an app called Save Easter. 

I'll be rating apps on 4 major categories with a star rating in each category 5 being the highest 1 being the lowest. The highest any app can rate will be 20 stars, 5 stars combined for each category.

The categories I will review the app with are as follows:

Implementation - Does the app work and function as advertised

User interface -  Is the interface intuitive and appealing

Creativity - Uniqueness, out of box thinking

Value - entertainment value, business value, are you getting your money's worth

Lets jump into the review:

First impressions are huge and the illustrations, icon and graphics are really top notch with this app, the artists did a fabulous job. Unfortunately game play and execution of Save Easter is really lacking. The idea behind this game is the evil bunny egg thief stole the eggs and you need to Save Easter by collecting them. The egg thief sits atop a platform and throws the eggs down and occasionally bombs. You need to avoid the bombs and collect the eggs. You get points for each egg, you miss enough eggs and you lose.

User Interface is again top notch, the graphics, menu screen, they did something similar to what Angry Birds did with showing some still images to imply a story line. This all works quite well, problems arise when you actually get into the game.

Implementation is lacking, within 30 seconds of playing the game I found a bug with the controls. The control idea is very simple you tap on the screen and the bunny moves left or right depending on which way you tap. Several times I'm tapping the opposite direction and the bunny kept moving the wrong direction. The backgrounds do change, but I haven't seen any sign of multiple levels or any other challenge. The longer you play the faster the evil bunny thief throws eggs and bombs.

This is really a primitive app covered up with a nice interface and professional graphics.

Here's how we rate it:

Implementation - Poorly done, clumsy controls
☆

User Interface - Excellent menus, graphics, love the storyboard still images
☆☆☆☆

Creativity - Primitive app, really nothing special going on here.

☆

Value - This app should be free, it held my attention for about five minutes, I would not recommend buying this.

☆

Overall: 7 ☆ out of 20 ☆