Platform Panic review – imaginatively ups the mobile gaming ante

iOS, Android, Nitrome, cert 4
Infinite runner titles have come to the fore on mobiles, but by fusing the format with an old-school 16-bit platformer, Nitrome has elevated the genre. Platform Panic begins with a small robot dropping into view, but although the landscape is there to be traversed, there’s no cumbersome virtual D-pad to negotiate. Instead, the miniature mechanoid is in perpetual motion, diverted around the world with swipes to the side to change direction, and up to jump. W