When looking at Stick Hero, you might not quite understand the point of the game, or why a little stick man might be in the slightest bit heroic. Honestly, I don’t really understand the point to this game, but there’s a lot of fun to be had with Stick Hero. I like to imagine that my stick hero is a ninja rushing off to save the life of the daughter of the emperor or something noble like that.
The game in itself is very simple, all you have to do is hold the screen while the stick that your little man is holding grows long enough to take you over the gap between small blocky islands. The catch is that your stick can’t be too small or too long, if it’s too short, you’ll end up falling short of the island and falling to your doom, if it’s too long, you’ll completely bypass the island and again, fall you your doom. If you get your stick dead on in the middle of the island, you’ll get an extra bonus point, but it has to be dead on. The distance between each of the platform islands is random, so there’s no way that you can get by, by making the same sized stick every time. Really this game is full of guess work and estimation, I call this guesstimation work.
In a way, this game is kind of like flappy bird with a twist, you have to see how many platforms you can get past without dying, this game has one over flappy bird in that it allows you chance to pause and try to figure out exactly how long you need to make your stick and how much time you’ll need to hold down to make it grow.
Stick Hero is currently running version 1.2 and requires at least iOS version 4.3 or later. It is currently only available to play in the English language, not that there is much to read in the game, so any non-English speakers should be able to play this game fine. It is available to download from the app store for free with the option to further buy premium currency from the in game store. The game currently has a four and a half star rating on the app store, with a variety of good and bad reviews from users.
There are four different cherry package options for purchase within Stick Hero. Ranging from ninety nine cents to $6.99 for 400-5000 cherries. These cherries can be used to purchase ten new heroes with different types of headwear and different appearances.
Stick Hero is one of our favorite and most addicting games this month. While playing Stick Hero, you’ll probably want to change your character or hero. You can either save up cherries for a long time or buy them using real money to unlock new characters. That’s why we’ve added a hack that will get you unlimited amounts of cherries in Stick Hero!
The hack is free and easy to use. It’s been tested on both Android and iOS devices. All you have to do to get the hack is download it right here on this page. After you have downloaded the Stick Hero hack onto your phone or tablet, you’ll see a screen like the one pictured here.
First choose the type of device you are using to play Stick Hero – iOS or Android. Then tap the “Connect Device” button to link the Stick Hero hack to your mobile device. Now just type in the amount of cherries you want to add to your account. Tap “Start Hack” when you are ready to initiate the hack.
The Stick Hero hack usually only takes about 20 seconds to complete. You can view the progress of the hack by watching the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Once the hack is complete, open your Stick Hero app to view if the cherries have been added to your account. Now you can unlock as many new heroes as you want without having to spend your real money!
The developer of this game – Ketchapp, appears to be one of those companies that specialize in frustrating and incredibly annoying games, which also managing to be outrageously fun and addictive.
Because this game heavily relies on a mixture of estimation and guesswork, it’s difficult to give good tips for a game that constantly randomizes itself so you really can’t tell what is going to come up next.
First of all, try to estimate the distance between each platform using clues that the background has to offer. The backgrounds change with every attempt that you make, each background signals the difficulty level of what the attempt you are making might be, so pay attention to the background if you have a really easy level with wide plat forms or if you have a really difficult level with a lot of narrow platforms, because this will give you an idea of what type of level you’re going to be playing before you even leave your first platform.
My second tip which is one of the first things I tried with success while I was playing is to use your fingers to figure out the distance between platforms. Whilst this isn’t exactly the best thing as really it’s a split seconds difference of pressing the screen between hitting the platform and totally missing it, but it’s definitely a trick that helps. Use two fingers to measure the distance between platforms, by doing this, you’ll know exactly how long you’ll need to make your stick. My third tip is to just play the game obsessively until you’re starting to get the hang of releasing your stick at the perfect moment, soon enough, you’ll have a much easier time at getting through the game and hitting like fifty platforms before you know it.
Also, bear in mind that you get a bonus point for every perfect middle of the platform placement, whilst you only get these occasionally through straight luck, any bonus points that you are able to get help you out as it’s one extra point, one extra platform that you won’t have to attempt, each platform has a little red dot in the middle of it, so if you can get the end of your stick to hit that, then you’re awesome. To get cherries that are under your stick, you need to tap once to run on the other side of your stick, but be sure to tap again to get right side up before you crash into the platform. Currently there are various hacks available to give yourself unlimited cherries, these can be found on any reputable hack sites, plus those with jaibroken iapfree enabled devices are also in luck.
Every so often, I want to play a game just to kill time, nothing complex that requires a lot of thought, but something a can just pick up and play a couple games of. Stick Hero is one of these games, I can play a few rounds in less than ten minutes, this game doesn’t require much thought, but it is still quite a bit of a challenge.
I really enjoy this game, because you can just pick it up and mean only to play for like five minutes and then suddenly, you’ve lost an hour of your day to the game. It’s one of those games that can irritate you to no end, put down and proclaim that you’re never going to play that game ever again, and then you find yourself back on it two minutes later.
Because it does have a challenging aspect to it, you constantly find yourself filled with a sense of victory when you successfully make it across to the next platform, even more so when you beat your previous high score.
Since Stick Hero is still a very new game and has only just implemented in app purchases a few days ago, the only way they were making money initially was with the ads that would pop up. I feel that the pop up ads occur far too often, even now they have implemented another way for them to make money, the persistence of the ads has not let up at all, I wouldn’t mind it if it was only a few times in like half an hour, but an ad pops up every single time you die, which anyone who plays this game can be within a matter of seconds. I don’t want to have to see an ad every 20 seconds!
Artwork: I give Stick Hero a 9/10 for its artwork. The artwork in the game is very minimalist which is great because it doesn’t distract you from the task at hand, bright colorful overly exaggerated artwork would make getting you stick across difficult. The background artwork is also beautifully done.
Music and SFX: I give the game an 8/10 for its music and SFX. There isn’t actually any music at all in this game which is a good thing as like the simplistic artwork, it doesn’t distract, the quiet allows you to concentrate on estimating how long you need to make your stick to make it hit the next platform, which is a task that can take a fair bit of concentration. The small SFX like the little ding that sounds when you successfully make it to the next platform act as a little celebratory noise which further reinforces the sense of victor I’m filled with. I also love the little crash noise that it makes when I totally fail because it’s a play on classic crash noises from cartoons and such and really makes me laugh and doesn’t make my failure feel so bad.
Story and Originality: I give the game a 9/10 for its story and originality. The game is similar to flappy bird however it definitely one ups it so it has a tiny bit of its own originality, I would have rated it 10/10 if it had been totally original. I also love that despite the game being called Stick Hero, there isn’t anything that explains why your little man is a hero or why he’s traversing across numerous platforms. This allows the player to use their own imagination and make up a backstory for their character. I decided that my Stick Hero’s name is Pao (which when translated to English means to run), he is a lowly member of his Ninja order and has just learned that emperors daughter – the love of his life – has been kidnapped, he want to prove himself as a heroic ninja by saving her, don’t worry though, his princess isn’t in another castle.
General Gameplay: I give the game an 8/10 for its general gameplay. How to play the game is really easy to quickly pick up. There isn’t much to it which makes it really easy to play. The instructions are very simplistic and not hard to understand at all.
Addictiveness: I give the game 9/10 for its addictiveness. Though it’s one of those rage inducing games, it’s hard to put down because you find yourself wanting to get just one more platform and beat your record. The only thing that interrupts me from getting fully addicted is the fact that the ads pop up so often, they really mess with the flow of my gameplay.
Overall I rate Stick Hero 9/10.