I think the app is indeed polished. It looks really good. But you do have a point in that users, specially iOS users, expect a lot of feedback from the app in the form of animations. I remember reading the guys from @mikamobile talking about how they even added a little bounce animation to the characters of Battleheart (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battleheart/id394057299?mt=8) when the user selects them with a tap. That's something you barely see because the character is under your finger, but it speaks for the amount of animation feedback necessary for a game to look "amazing" in the eyes of a current iOS user.