Forged Fantasy 9+

This game is one of the best that I’ve played on the App Store. I’ve only had it for a bit less than a week, but I’ve played it every day and I come to like it more and more as I do. There are in-app purchases, but they really only give you gems and sometimes heroes, but I’m pretty sure that you can get every hero without paying. There’s an energy system, which gets kind of annoying when you’re trying to farm for hero upgrade items, but every daily quest rewards you with a not-insignificant amount of energy, and I think it’s pretty fair.

The gameplay is great, for a mobile game. I find it most fun to play ranged heroes, as you actually have to aim a little, rather than just mash the attack button. I’m a fan.

Good: chatting, graphics, characters are colorful and fun to play and collect. The gems are easy to get and new heroes are easy to get. Videos are useful when energy runs out. Some players are easy to evolve in the beginning. / ability to accelerate play is nice. Bad: shop variety / shop prices / player control during play / gloriously unfair pvp matching regardless of team formation — I lose 75% of the time. / coop raid matching simply never works / hard to evolve some players that have no shards on the hard levels / level 42 limits for epic on most characters means that pvp matching around level 40 is tragic. This game has tons of potential but there isn’t enough to keep me playing right now especially with some of the pvp and coop matching flaws. Also the iPad Pro implementation on the normal screen size cuts off content on a few screens, most notably the hero info. It was fun for a couple of weeks so thank you.

Note for apple - when you leave and return to the App Store and you have a review screen up you can never get the keyboard back. This has been an issue for a very long time.

Honestly, I really enjoyed this game. It’s a bit of a fresh take on a VERY overdone formula (collect heroes, get shards to increase their star level and gear to increase their tier). The combat is pretty engaging and the hero you take control of can really change the fight. Graphics are amazing and the story is pretty interesting with some pretty funny dialogue. I will say I really like how they made it so every hard battle rewards you with a shard, instead of just a chance for one like other games. There are two major issues for me however. The first is that the prices for things are outrageous. When I play games like this, I don’t mind dropping like 10-15 bucks just to get some things. But these guys want $30 for one hero. Not only that but they claim it’s “discounted” 80%. Meaning they actually thing their hero is worth $150? That’s insane and they know it. In general gems are also too expensive for what they return. The other issue is that you cap out at level 35. Obviously they plan to change that, but it’s such a low level to cap at that I ran out of things to do very quickly and lost interest. They fix those things and this is genuinely a 5 star game.