Badlands: Champions

The show has stopped and so too has development of this game. The alliance and versus challenge sections have COMING SOON but there has been no details as to when. There is also no chat in-game which can be overcome with discord but seems like a shortcoming. It has potential but without further direction it will remain incomplete so I say: “Find yourself a better game.” Of course you don’t have to take my word for it but keep your expectations low should you spend your time as a fan of the show or tap-swipe games.I like the game’s design. Simple play controls, which could become a bore: just tapping and swiping, I enjoy. They lend themselves to other more subtle strategizing with framing the camera angle and choosing characters with good abilities. The gameplay sometimes glitches though. My character has lagged into suicide and the bots can loop into invulerability. These happen infrequently: ~2% of the time. What I don’t like is the application’s slow load time, high battery use, and heating of my device. Also the social aspect is lackluster. After having the game for several months the: “alliance” and “challenge pvp” modes are still under construction. To their credit RelianceGames did quickly respond and tweak a glitch I reported in the daily missions. In parting, I want to say that this game WILL become a grind. After collecting all (9/9) common, all (9/9) rare, nearly half (6/16) epic, and none (0/6) legendary characters there is still a long way to go before any reach their max level. For example the nine common characters reach a max level 13, but the successive lvl requirements more than double. After collecting over 4000 common cards I estimate there to be 20-30 times that many left. Try this flawed but fun game if you like.

I hit a pay wall after one day. It takes forever for characters to heal, unless you watch a bunch of clips for other games, most of which would be more fun than this one. When you fly across the screen to perform one of your two different attacks, half the time the enemy switches and you’re stuck with doing the wrong attack, and after one hit you don’t get as many bonuses. It’s impossible to change attacks no matter how much frantic swiping you do in the five seconds you’re flying across the screen. Lots of bugs and glitches. After 15 minutes of fighting through a level, a boss will randomly get stuck in some to rain and you won’t be able to attack it, and then you just sit there staring at your screen in disbelief until you finally give up and cancel the mission and have to do it all over again.

When you start the game, it looks pretty cool. But where it really shines? The combat! It has a counter and assassinate feel to it, similar to assassins creed. Pretty fun. I just started though so I only know about these parts of the game.