The Act for iOS is one of those games that just breaks your heart when you're forced to rate it as anything less than perfect—and it really shatters you when big problems with the mechanics keep you from even ranking it as "great." The Act is lovingly presented and is storyboarded well, and pays strong tribute to the Laserdisc games of olde, but despite some attempts at genre innovation, it's a frustrating game to muddle through.
Remember when Laserdisc-based arcade games like Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair were all the rage? After dropping an obscene amount of money into the machines, you began to realize that the fully-animated titles were incredible to watch, but not much fun to play. They demanded strict memorization of game routes, and your input otherwise amounted to flicking Dirk the Daring in the right direction. If you were off by a mere second, you had a Dead Dirk on your hands. Happily, React Entertainment is engineering The Act for iOS to be an interactive cartoon that actually gets the player deeply involved.