When comparing Riddick: The Merc Files vs Spirits, the Slant community recommends Spirits for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” Spirits is ranked 75th while Riddick: The Merc Files is ranked 103rd. The most important reason people chose Spirits is:
The artistic design of the game is quite dream-like, with hand-drawn characters and levels. Its sound design is equally impressive.
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Pros
Pro Actual voice work done by Vin Diesel
Just like the rest of Vin Diesels games, he actually does the voice work.
Pro Good visuals
The visuals stand out as highly polished and give the game a very appropriate gritty feel.
Pro Impressive style and quality
The artistic design of the game is quite dream-like, with hand-drawn characters and levels. Its sound design is equally impressive.
Pro Whimsical artistic style
This game is ethereal and relaxing, while at the same time engaging the player in challenging puzzles. The main character is comical, yet beautiful at the same time. It's almost like The Wisp and Lemmings had a child.
Pro Great atmosphere
Dream-like art direction with hand-drawn characters and levels, and excellent sound design.
Pro Varied, Lemmings-style puzzles
The game has interesting and often challenging puzzles, especially if you wish to complete the level perfectly, made possible with varied abilities of spirits that get introduced throughout the game.
Cons
Con Short
The game can be completed in under half an hour.
Con Buggy
The AI for enemies does not work to well with them getting stuck on one another or falling over parts of the environment.
Con Broken on Android Marshmallow devices
Unfortunately, Spirits doesn't work with Android devices with Android 6.0 Marshmallow installed (or higher). The game simply freezes or crashes instantly while loading.
Con Slow-moving gameplay
Spirits is intended to be a slow, relaxing game, though some may not enjoy the extent of the title's slowness.