Jetpack Joyride 2 is worth an Apple Arcade subscription on its own

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Jetpack Joyride 2 is the first mobile game I’ve loved in a very long time.

I was obsessed with staying on top of the best iOS games in the early days of the iPhone — titles like the original Angry Birds, Hook Champ, and Ridiculous Fishing — but as the vast majority of mobile games have shifted to a time- and money-gobbling free-to-play model, I’ve largely stopped playing them. I have enough entertainment to juggle already; managing yet another free-to-play game just isn’t appealing.

But to my surprise, I kept finding myself opening Jetpack Joyride 2 when I had a few minutes to burn. It happened during my Dedicated Video Game Playing Time, too. Over the course of a few days, I just couldn’t stop collecting coins, dodging missiles, upgrading my gear, and getting as far as I could through each level.

Jetpack Joyride 2 is an Apple Arcade-exclusive sequel to Jetpack Joyride, one of my all-time favorite mobile games. (Maybe it shouldn’t surprise me that I love it.) The core of Jetpack Joyride 2 is much the same as the first: your character, equipped with a jetpack, will automatically rush down a hallway as you jet up and down to collect goodies and dodge obstacles. As you complete missions and gather currency, you’ll be able to upgrade your gear and buy new items and in-game gear.

But the sequel mixes things up in a few key ways. Jetpack Joyride 2 adds enemies that you have to contend with as you’re dodging obstacles like missiles and electric lines — but the new game also gives you a gun and special weapons to take the baddies out. And while the original was an infinite runner, meaning that the primary goal was to survive for as long as possible to get as far as you could, in Jetpack Joyride 2, you’ll be trying to get a