Nothing beats hunting through the Apple Store and finding a really great game. Sure, every now and then you slam into a dud but sometimes you come across an Angry Birds or, in this case, Cut The Rope. The graphics are cute and the sound effects are adorable leaving you with a promise of an enjoyable experience.

And it delivers. Nothing is as addictive as working through a puzzle game which employs ropes, bubbles, air-blowing machines and spiders—and that’s just the first two worlds. The game play is pretty intuitive but what just takes the cake is that the game also makes use of the multi-touch engine so that sometimes you need to cut ropes simultaneously to make sure your puzzle is solved. Add to this the added tenseness of some of the prizes with a timer on them, you’ll find your gameplay, occasionally, pretty nerve-wracking.

But it’s totally worth it when you’ve actually managed to miss the spikes, grab the stars, blow past the danger and finally drop the candy into the waiting hungry mouth. Awesome.

Cut The Rope is available for $0.99 on both the iPhone and iPad.  A free “lite” version is also available for both platforms.  The just released 1.1 update adds a “cosmic box” of 25 additional levels set in a spaceship theme with anti-gravity devices.  This must-have title just keeps getting better and better and justifies the over 3-million downloads to date.

[written by guest contributor Rey Reynoso]