Perfect Balance: Inferno, ttursas’ much anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Perfect Balance: Harmony, recently hit the app store. While maintaining a similar feel to Harmony, Inferno adds some interesting new elements which up the degree of difficulty while providing yet another satisfying experience.

For those unfamiliar with the original, each level contains one or more stationary objects upon which to balance a collection of shapes. These objects sit above a dotted line and include both regular and irregular shapes. You must drag each piece onto the playing area and try to balance all of the pieces at once upon the stationary objects. If any of the pieces falls by the wayside or the finished product cannot find stability, you fail and must try again. To move on to the next level, all pieces must remain motionless and balanced for at least one second.

Perfect Balance: Inferno provides 120 levels of gaming fun, 30 more than are currently provided in Harmony. The newest iteration has a darker, scarier theme, with ominous background music and spookier textures, including yellow peering eyes that blink from behind the game pieces. Stationary objects now include buzzsaws that turn randomly, speeding up, slowing down, and changing direction without warning. The buzzsaws really impact gameplay, at times sending pieces flying or preventing your creation from gaining stability. There are even new types of pieces, such as objects that are five times heavier than other objects. You must really consider how to place your pieces to be successful. The puzzles even seem more difficult. While we blew through the first 25 levels in Harmony, we were given pause within the first five levels of Inferno, to the point where it took nearly 20 minutes to pass a single level. Ttursas has really upped the ante with this offering.

Gameplay was just as smooth and polished as in Harmony. The graphics are very appealing, though not as “spooky” as intended. That being said, there is a nice effect created when the buzzsaws grind against a piece that makes it look like oozing blood rather than flying sparks. Controls remain the same is in Harmony. Touch controls can be calibrated to show the active piece anywhere you like in relation to your finger position on the screen. Simply tap to rotate.

All levels are locked except the current level, so you must complete each in order to move on. Priced at $0.99, this puzzler is hard to pass up. If you enjoyed Harmony, you’ll certainly love Inferno, which, like its predecessor, also receives a 5-Dimple rating.

Perfect Balance: Inferno gets our AppSmile 5-Dimple rating:

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