Favorite Puzzle Game!
If you liked the first Hero Emblems, you will love this one. Unlike most Match-3 games, you pay once and then play as much as you'd like. No gimmicks -- just cool puzzle mechanics, adorable art, and simple-yet-fun RPG elements.
Thank you, HeatPot Games. Waited years for this and it's even better than I expected!
Thank you, HeatPot Games. Waited years for this and it's even better than I expected!
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Great Match 3 RPG
If you like this kind of game, don’t hesitate, it’s well made and great fun.
iCloud sync
One of the things i liked in first game is that possibility to after deleting it from the device for whatever reason, but after deciding to reinstall it, you can pickup where you stopped, because it’s being iCloud synced. No progress loss. This one, even though the “iCloud sync” option is visibly checked and i can see it uses space on iCloud account just as fist version - just can’t. I tried few times. Somehow seems now it’s only works for switching devices while it’s installed on at least one i guess? 😒 Edited; fixed and improved generally. Great 👍🏻
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Not as good as the original
Here’s the good news: the same fundamental gameplay that I loved about the first game is still present in the sequel.
The bad news is:
- The main game is buried under WAY too many added RPG mechanics. This is a match 3 game, people, not the new Witcher. It’s too complicated.
- The puzzle board is harder to use; the icons aren’t distinct enough.
- Everything on screen sort of pulsates and writhes the whole time. It’s weird and distracting.
- You’re graded on completion time, which destroys any claim the game has of being “casual”.
The first game was a charming little puzzler with some fun added RPG elements. With this one, it’s like they were embarrassed by the last one and tried to turn into a full-blown RPG. If I want that, I’ll replay DQ7.
The bad news is:
- The main game is buried under WAY too many added RPG mechanics. This is a match 3 game, people, not the new Witcher. It’s too complicated.
- The puzzle board is harder to use; the icons aren’t distinct enough.
- Everything on screen sort of pulsates and writhes the whole time. It’s weird and distracting.
- You’re graded on completion time, which destroys any claim the game has of being “casual”.
The first game was a charming little puzzler with some fun added RPG elements. With this one, it’s like they were embarrassed by the last one and tried to turn into a full-blown RPG. If I want that, I’ll replay DQ7.
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Brings back the memories
Played Hero Emblem a long time ago, herd 2 was out so I dust off my old iPad to play it. 2 added some new features to improve the combat complexity. Story is what u expect and dev added character voices. Overall a wonderful sequel.
Balancing
Devs: Google it. You cant have a dungeon that is possible to breeze through but then have the boss one-hit total party kill you. Same problem with the last game. Hard, thousand-foot difficulty wall after all the fun I’ve had up to that point. BALANCE YOUR GAME SO THAT ITS POSSIBLE TO COMPLETE. It’s not skill - its luck in addition to wildly disadvantageous math behind the scenes resulting in literally DOZENS OF HOURS wasted getting cheesed by this random boss. If there are no possible matches, I can’t exactly put out the NINETEEN fires the boss starts on my board with every single hit. Your game is not possible to complete. Let me at the very least have a chance. I paid you money! Make your game playable!
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Grindy and unfairly difficult
I’m disappointed. I love the first HE, but unlike the first iteration, HE2 is hard and pretty unfair at times. You will often get to a boss with two or three debuffs, and then get even more debuffs atop from the boss. It’s less of a 3-matching strategy game and more of debuff management. It’s tiresome, frustrating and quite frankly not fun.
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Did you ever want to take sisyphus’s place
The entire game is just trying to clear debuffs non stop. And it takes away 4+ emblem matches more and more the later in the game you get. Seriously skip it.
Another great one
You wouldn’t think that a Match 3, an RPG and rich storytelling would work hand in hand, but this group has managed to pull it off not once, but twice. Both games are well worth the money and just leave me satisfied — and ready for the next one.
iCloud sync 🤨
One of the things i liked in first game is that possibility to after deleting it from the device for whatever reason, but after deciding to reinstall it, you can pickup where you stopped, because it’s being iCloud synced. Mo progress loss.
This one, even though the “iCloud sync” option is visibly checked and i can see it uses space on iCloud account just as fist version - just can’t. I tried few times. Somehow seems now it’s only works for switching devices while it’s installed on at least one i guess? 😒
This one, even though the “iCloud sync” option is visibly checked and i can see it uses space on iCloud account just as fist version - just can’t. I tried few times. Somehow seems now it’s only works for switching devices while it’s installed on at least one i guess? 😒
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