Here's Santa Presents in action:
A neat animated splash screen/menu, good production values all round...
Now here's where it gets interesting. Normally, in a game for adults, 'Easy' to 'Hard' are ranged according to the speed and complexity of the gameplay, i.e. things happen faster and you have to react faster, etc. Possibly because this is aimed at kids, the difficulty levels refer instead to the three different ways of controlling the game.
The aim of the game, as you might expect is to move your presents sack around beneath Santa as he scampers around the sky, collecting as many of the falling presents as possible. One complication is that Santa also drops bombs (naughty Santa) - catch one of these by accident and it's game over.
On 'Easy', you control the sack directly with your finger...
On 'Normal', it's a standard left/right control system...
And on 'Hard', you have to use the accelerometer - this turns out not to respond very well in the game - making it 'hard' indeed!
Essentially you keep going as long as you can, trying not to miss too many presents (of various sizes) and making sure you miss all the bombs. Then you compare scores with your previous best (or brother's or sister's!) Rather cutely, the game also includes Christmas and New Year countdown timers. Only 8 days to go!
Worth getting for your small ones in the build-up to Christmas, as long as you trust them with your phone?