When comparing Spirits vs Dynamite Jack, 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 74th while Dynamite Jack is ranked 114th. 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 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.
Pro User created levels
There are an assortment of user created levels available for download as well as any number that the user can come up with and create themselves.
Pro Looks great on AMOLED screens
Dynamite Jack uses sharp colors on a black background which look incredibly saturated when playing on an AMOLED device.
Pro Two control schemes
There are two control schemes available in the settings. The forst is drawing lines that the character follows on screen and the other is a virtual thumbstick.
Cons
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.
Con Gameplay somewhat overwhelming
When first starting out all of the pop ups on the display may be confusing or just too much for the player.
