Dragon Hills 2 12+

I was big fan of first game. Played it to something like level 200. This is such an improvement. While the first was basically the same level (and boss) over and over again, this game has outstanding variety. In environments, mobs, bosses, and upgrades.

I'm not sure what people complaining about the difficulty are talking about. It's harder than the first one, but far from a difficult game. You will have to fight some bosses multiple times while you save for upgrades, but it's fun while you do, and you will eventually take them down.

I've faced maybe 15 bosses so far. Most I beat in 1-5 tries, while a few of the harder ones took 10-15 tries. And it's incredibly rewarding when you do beat the harder ones.

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The latest update — mostly the addition of two new permanent dragons — helps this game out a bit. This game still feels like it spends most of its time punishing the user for playing it. Massive frame rate issues playing it on a 2017 iPad. Lots of camera tracking issues — when using homing missiles or when bosses explode, the camera shifts focus away from your character making it almost impossible to see what you’re doing. In other instances, especially when you pick up speed, the camera pushes way to far ahead of the player, so you can barely see where you’re at on screen. It’s still absolutely ridiculous that power ups are only activated if they touch the head of your dragon, but enemies can do damage by hitting any part of your dragon. And the pacing of each level is still clunky, not nearly as smooth and fast as the original. Plus... there’s still no endless mode. It just feels like this developer completely misunderstood what made the first Dragon Hills so much fun.

I have played this game through now twice. I like the new (variety of) worlds. Guns are cool (swords were better), GodzillaMech is fun, bosses are the best change. This game is a grind at first but becomes more enjoyable after you get the big’uns later on. Kinda wish some of the old mechanics were still in play, like playing till you die versus level to level - which is annoying. Rewards are more difficult to grab in this game, and you can’t use the bottom in this game to let them catch up to you. I could be wrong but the old game used to have more digging room, and it was easier to get to the higher ground in the older game. I like that the acid pits are hard but some are down right unavoidable, which is kind of annoying, if the bridge is out before you get there no level of skill is going to keep you from losing life. Frankly I like it as a time killer, it’s a mindless tap game, but I will probably not continue buying these titles.