App Profile: Occidental Heroes

Lenny Adelaide

Rating: 5/5

While I love pixel games, it is hard to captivate me with the more simplistic styles of play. But I have always had a soft spot for text base games where your choices matter and this one is the best so far. The best part is: it is challenging and requires you to be very strategic. You can’t accept every single quest all the time. You can’t spend your whole game instigating all the fights possible until you are strong enough. Plus there is n incentive to retire your seasoned fighters and train up characters you meet along the way. I just found this game today and have probably played it for 7 hours. I can’t stop! The commercials pop up just infrequently enough that I don’t feel unvalued as a customer. It actually makes me want to pay to support the game without feeling like I got baited and switched (some free games are impossible to enjoy without paying). Really hope this game keeps expanding or that the dev makes another game that is similar. UPDATE: There does seem to be a glitch where I can no longer view the top bar when I go into town. Kind of hard to make informed purchases without access to that info.

Orph~

Rating: 4/5

I love this game, but if the dev was going to change the way the text was scaled before it’s no longer with a smaller phone screen in mind, then there should be an option to allow the original scaling. Now the whole game is weirdly zoomed in for my iPhone 6 screen, so some of the text in the opening screens runs off into the forward and back buttons, and the battle screen now is halfway cutting into the tiles on either side of the screen, which makes it a bit hard to tell what’s going on at the edge of the battlefield and also a little more difficult than is necessary to tell your units to go onto those tiles. Also the text just generally feels really large on my screen and you have to scroll enough in this game even when most of the text is on screen at once, so that’s not ideal, even if not major. All that being said, the game is overall fantastic and I used it to get through my onboarding process and first when I started my current job and I was left to sit around a computer for hours haha. Occasionally you get moments where you’re asked to escort someone across the map for 20 coins and it’s just not worth it because you have to move them in battle due to them not have the discipline necessary to stay still on their turn and that alone makes escorts so much worse but otherwise it’s got a fun gameplay loop that I really enjoy and would recommend.

3DKQM

Rating: 5/5

The game is fenomenal, the art atyle, the stories, the choices, the map, everything hit the the right spot for me. The mechanic is extremely easy to understand and get into, your choices does have weight to it which directly affect the outcomes, which in turn help each run unique from another. Though as it is still in developement (I hope) the game is quite "short" as once your team pick up the xps and upgrades, they kind of snow ball almost everyfight as the AI leave much to be desires. I only found this gem ~2 days ago and I already racked quite an embarassing amount of playtime already. One last grief I have with the game though is that once your party all finished their goals, you have to depart with them to recruit new ones to do their quest line which in turn drop the fire power of the team tremendously as the new guy not only is underlevel and geared, but the enemies are stronger as well.