# Hero Emblems II — user reviews

> 145 indexed App Store user reviews of Hero Emblems II by HeatPot Games Ltd., rated 4.30/5 from 156 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hero-emblems-ii/id1070462618/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hero-emblems-ii/id1070462618.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 111 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 14

## What do users think of Hero Emblems II?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎮 Excellent match-3 gameplay mechanics
- 💰 No pay-to-win or microtransactions
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics and animations
- 🎵 Great music and character voice acting
- 📖 Engaging story with RPG elements
- 🧩 Deep combat strategy and character customization
- ⏱️ Substantial content (50+ hours of gameplay)
- 🎯 Addictive and compelling gameplay loop
- 📱 Works offline without ads
- ✨ High production quality overall

**Cons**

- ⚔️ Severe difficulty spikes and boss balancing issues
- ⏳ Excessive grinding required for progression
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and soft crashes
- 🌍 Poor English localization and translation quality
- 📋 Lack of quest journal or quest tracking system
- 🎮 Confusing UI and unclear game mechanics
- ⚙️ Overly complex RPG systems for a match-3 game
- 🔄 No skip story function (initially)
- 📱 iPad display issues with black borders
- 🎯 Unfair debuff mechanics and RNG frustration
- 🔋 High power consumption on devices
- 😴 Grindy and time-consuming boss battles
- 🎪 Bland protagonist character
- 🚫 No endgame content or endless mode
- 🎨 Distracting visual pulsating effects

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game crashes during final boss battles
- Soft crashes and emblem dropping errors
- iCloud sync not working properly after reinstall
- Location markers disappearing after quest completion
- Touchscreen input not working on one side of map
- Elf character joining prevents map movement
- Five-star gems unable to convert with adjacent gems
- Visual glitches and display errors
- iPad home bar black border display issue
- iPad orientation support missing
- Game freezing and crashing randomly

**Most requested features**

- Enemy level indicators for dungeon difficulty assessment
- Quest journal and quest tracking system
- Endgame endless mode for post-story gameplay
- Easy or casual difficulty mode
- Game+ or New Game+ mode
- Multiplayer PvP battle mode
- Korean language support
- Better iCloud sync functionality
- Difficulty balancing adjustments
- More distinct puzzle board icons
- Faster map navigation speed

## Newest reviews (11 of 145)

### 3/5 — Joke-Level Boss Balancing

*2026-02-25*

Everything basically perfect. Looks great, feels great, works great. It’s just that almost every boss is wildly outbalanced for your progress. There is a difference between a challenging battle and chipping away at a brick wall for THIRTY MINUTES. Truly terrible balancing. Also, no journal or basic list of quests which leads to even more wasted time moving around hitting a battle every other dot just to learn your quest is nowhere near where you just slogged to. You are so close to perfection! Iron out that bts math and implement the world’s most basic quest journal and you’re there.

### 4/5 — Excellent sauf la difficulté à certains moments

*2024-08-16*

Dommage qu'à un certain stade, la difficulté de certaines quêtes devienne exécrable...on ne prend plus de plaisir, on se fait laminer, on prend malus sur malus et les personnages se font oneshoter.
C'est dommage car je vois ce jeu comme quelque chose de détente mais en faite il faut ses persos et retry.
Sinon, le jeu est excellent.

### 5/5 — Great Match 3 RPG

*2024-07-21*

If you like this kind of game, don’t hesitate, it’s well made and great fun.

### 4/5 — 游戏闪退

*2024-06-11, version 2.03*

游戏闪退有碰到过吗，现在玩了30个小时有4次，15pro， 17.03系统

### 2/5 — Final Boss Broken

*2024-05-09, version 2.02*

Had a lot of fun with this game (and the original) until the final boss. The game keeps soft crashing and I can’t finish the game. Four times now, and the last time I had the boss under 20% HP after 90 minutes of battling.

### 2/5 — クリアした人いるんでしょうか

*2024-04-09*

ほぼラストまで来ましたか敵が硬すぎて断念。最近になって食事システムが追加されてまだ製作者はこのゲームの調整をしてるんだ、と再会してみましたが新システムを使ってもどうにもならないレベルで敵は固い
ゲーム制作において作っていくうちにバランス感覚が狂って敵がどんどん固くなってしまうのはあるあるです。思い切ってユーザーの声を聞いて硬さを半分くらいに落としてはどうでしょうか。それでもまだ固いと言われるとは思いますが、クリアする人は出てくると思います

### 5/5 — 面白い

*2024-04-06*

面白いです。暇な時の時間潰しに丁度良し。

### 5/5 — iCloud sync

*2024-03-08*

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 👍🏻

### 5/5 — 相见恨晚的游戏！ 十分好玩

*2024-03-03, version 2.01*

各方面都很优秀的游戏。35小时剧情通关，最后大boss 杀了3个小时…

### 3/5 — Not as good as the original

*2023-12-25*

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.

### 5/5 — Brings back the memories

*2023-11-25*

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.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 合わない

*2026-06-30*

難易度高め
戦略の幅が狭く、状態異常が強いのに対処が限定的で辛い。各キャラクターの個性も活かせられず詰めが甘いゲームである。これを買うなら別のゲームをやった方がいい。ちなみに私は途中で消した。

### 1/5 — Enemy levels??

*2026-03-04, version 2.08*

Could enemy levels be added? There are some huge difficulty spikes. The ability to see enemy levels would help to give us an idea if we should be in that dungeon or grinding another area. Thank you.

### 1/5 — No “Skip Story” function

*2025-04-09, version 2.08*

Don’t force players to read your story. It’s 2022, might want to get with the time.

### 1/5 — Software issues

*2024-06-25, version 2.03*

I love the game play!  However, it bugs out constantly.  Sometimes it shows up as the emblems dropping in incorrect ways, sometimes it’s the game completely crashing, and sometimes it’s visual glitches.  Besides that, it’s always using 10x the power of other similar games.  It’s a great game that’s been ruined by horrible company decisions.

### 1/5 — Paid money for this game

*2024-06-24, version 2.03*

Make the bosses easier to beat

### 1/5 — 최악의 레벨 벨런스

*2023-12-30*

도저히 손쓸 방도가 없게 디버프를 거는데 그걸 제거하는 방법은 너무나도 불합리함 작작해야지 감당못하게 만드는데 무슨 보스도 아니고 쫄몹부터 이런식이라는게 정말 게임하다가 핸펀 던지고 싶었던적이 한두번이 아닌데 참다참다 터지네요 이 게임 다시는 구매하지 않겠습니다 이왕 구매한김에 엔딩보려했는데 포기합니다.

### 1/5 — Balancing

*2023-11-23*

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!

### 1/5 — ちゃんとテストプレイしてる？

*2023-11-12*

中盤、後半のボス戦は1.2時間かかりますけど、、

### 1/5 — Grindy and unfairly difficult

*2023-08-17*

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.

### 1/5 — Balance? What balance?!

*2023-07-05*

When half the board is filled with debufs and the shields do nothing, where’s the fun in that?

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Deep and charming

*2025-08-05, version 2.08*

Possibly the best match 3 on the App Store, HE2 brings an absolutely delightful hero squad adventure to your bejewelled fantasies. No gatcha or micro transactions either!

### 5/5 — Très bien

*2025-05-10*

Assez difficile, surtout sur la fin. Il vous sera necessaire de farmer et de faire attention à votre équipement pour qu’il soit optimisé au mieux. J’ai passé un bon moment avec ce jeu ! Vivement la suite !

### 5/5 — New map plz!

*2025-05-01*

Game clear, new dungeon plz！

### 5/5 — Best game in its genre

*2025-04-19*

Thank you so much for this game. I really enjoyed the first one and enjoy Hero Emblems 2 as well 🩵 

If you will consider adding russian language I will definitely appreciate it ✨

### 5/5 — 非常に面白い

*2025-03-21*

前作は4周、今作は3周全クリしました。

ヒーローエンブレムは非常に楽しいゲームです。
パズルRPGのゲームシステムが素晴らしく、時間を忘れて遊んでいられます。
それに敵の強さも、少し難しいくらいが好きな私にはちょうど良いです。
前作からキャラも増えて、パーティ構成を変えられる点が増えて非常に楽しいです。
それに、究極紋章を大量に作れると、いつでも敵を倒せる状況にウハウハ気分が溢れます。

たしかに、他の方の意見にあるように、状態異常が辛いのと、敵の耐性により、最深部まで潜ったのにボスにダメージが与えられない時は面倒くささを感じます。

状態異常はまあアイテムとアクセサリー、それにヒーラーのデバフ解除と、タンクのデバフガードでなんとかなります。
ボスは弱点が判明すれば、道中で究極紋章をひたすら貯めておけば何とかなるので、クリアまでは簡単にできます。
ただ、状態異常対策にタンクとヒーラーの構成をほぼほぼ変えられないのが毎度のことながら残念ですね。

なので、戦闘中にスキルを変更できる機能をつけるか、究極紋章の状態を保存した状態で、ダンジョンから出ても、またボスのとこまでファストトラベル出来るようになれば、クリアできる人が増えるのではないでしょうか？

ヒーローエンブレムはもう本当に大好きで、アプリゲームで1番好きなゲームです。
この手のパズルRPGがもっと巷に溢れないかといつも期待して、App Storeをのぞいています。
私は普段面倒くさいから、レビューは絶対にしない派なのですが、諦めの早い方の評価により、このゲームの価値や素晴らしさが下げられるのが嫌で、今回初めてレビューをさせて頂きました。
次回作が出たら必ず買います。

### 5/5 — A critical bug

*2024-12-29*

When a new elf character joins, clicking the exclamation mark on the left side of the map doesn’t allow the team to move there. iPhone13

### 5/5 — end game mode

*2024-09-23, version 2.07*

需要一个主线剧情结束后依然能日常游玩无尽模式的部分阿

### 5/5 — Two Words:

*2024-09-09, version 2.06*

Frog.
Bard.
That is all.

### 5/5 — 인생 게임

*2024-08-14*

너무 재밌습니다

### 5/5 — Favorite Puzzle Game!

*2024-08-03*

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!

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