You may recall earlier on in this iOS game review that my ginger warrior character got as high as Level 52: you know what level I had to be to beat the boss in the freaking “Level 29 Crystal Chamber”? While I have had to take some time off because I was so pissed at this game, I had to reach the upper 30’s just to beat that stage so much for Level 29, huh? And that’s why the “endgame” in BH Legacy is so much fun: the final boss has no level designation – naturally, right – so I grinded out some more and strolled in at Level 45, only to get demolished. This dungeon is actually one of three mini-boss locations that must be completed prior to the final boss fight, so as an early player working your towards Level 29, you would probably think you could be Level 32 or so and absolutely destroy that boss, right? Right, I mean that’s what common sense would say, but common sense doesn’t quite apply to certain, key areas of BH Legacy. Pretty simple, right? Right … if they weren’t lying to you.įor exhibit A, please refer to the map above, most notably the “Crystal Chamber”, which clearly states one must be Level 29 before they take this dungeon on. That way before you stumble into an area not knowing what to expect, you know exactly what to expect since you know what level you need to be to conquer it. BH Legacy takes this implicit RPG characteristic and simplifies it by including recommended level benchmarks for each of the locations, which we’ll just call “dungeons”. Like in any RPG – and in most cases real life for that matter – the further one walks away from their home point, the more dangerous the world becomes. You see the map above? From the moment you leave the initial village in BH Legacy, the entire world map is available to your hiking boots. And once again, I need to stress that the core framework of this game is legit: if these issues that I’m about to address below are fixed in either an update, and/or the third game in what would then equate to a trilogy then I would pay another $5 or even $10 to play it. So let’s talk flaws, because after all there are literally a zillion positive reviews on this game just about every where you turn on the Internet. If only Bioware released Baldur’s Gate III on iOS … I can dream, right? Sure, there are plenty other iPhone games that I’ve played for much, much longer, but from an RPG perspective BH Legacy is king. That’s nearly a full day of gaming packed into a game that only cost me $4.99 – even with it’s major flaws that soured the experience at the end, that’s still a pretty amazing feat. Twenty-two and a half hours – that’s how long this iPhone game – a freaking iOS role playing game – sucked me into it’s addictive world while I was on vacation across the pond. With easy tap to move and tap to attack game play, along with the proven real-time, WoW-based battle system, Battleheart Legacy at its core has all the ingredients for being that iOS RPG king that the platform so desperately needs. I was skeptical at first, but BH Legacy quickly won me over – the game has virtually zero learning curve, and before I knew it I was already addicted to getting “just one more level” before I logged out. IOS Games We Loved Then Hated: Battleheart Legacy Review While BH Legacy is a blast to play, and a pleasant surprise when compared against the rest of the iOS RPG library, there are just too many fatal flaws that sadly makes me never want to pick up this game again. But then I came across Battleheart Legacy, a highly rated iOS RPG sequel from Mika Mobile that turned the downtime on my recent vacation into an amazing mobile gaming experience … until I got to the end of the game. Not counting the Final Fantasy 8 and 16-bit ports, great role playing games on the iOS platform (iPhone and iPad) are extremely rare – and by rare I mean they just do not exist.
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