The game is fairly short, too: You play a wizard in a castle who must ward off attaching knights who are buoyed by balloons. Instead, you just pay to remove ads.Īnd the ads aren’t even all that invasive-you’ll get a pop-up when you start the game, and another you finish. While it is free to play, it has none of the trappings of that format that make it so insidious. Magic Touch is the sort of casual arcade game that becomes almost instantly addictive. Lots of stereotypical character tropes.īuy it? If you don’t mind a game that’s light on the story but heavy on gameplay, check out Heavenstrike Rivals. Though the game is free to play, I never hit a point at which the game became too hard to play without paying for extras in the twelve hours I spent playing it over the past week, so that tipping point might be buried later in the campaign. Heavenstrike Rivals features online PVP and event missions in addition to the main quest, which should be more than enough content to keep you entertained.
Some of the artists behind the Final Fantasy games designed Heavenstrike Rivals’s characters, so they’re very excellently done. You build your squad by buying random characters or winning them in battle. The battles take place on a grid, and you and your opponent place your monsters in one of three “lanes.” If a monster makes it across to the other end of the grid, it attacks that side’s captain directly. It’s only slightly convoluted, and you can skip most of the dialog. You play a new captain in the Forsaken area fighting off the Fallen with your squad of monsters. After an invasion of the fallen, the world gets split in two: the regular kingdom and the Forsaken area. The Kingdom of Lunnain is a steampunk kingdom in the skies, a series of islands held aloft by giant chains. The writing isn’t as good, obviously, as those other titles, and Heavenstrike Rivals relies heavily on basic RPG tropes and character types. Equal parts SRPG and card game, it takes cues from games like Ironclad Tactics and Scrolls, while adding in the flavor of Square Enix’s JRPG titles. Heavenstrike Rivals is the newest free-to-play title from Square Enix.
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