9th Dawn Remake

Love this game on my phone, figured why not get it on my MBP if I can. Saw it’s in the App Store so purchased it. Come to find out that the key bindings are very lacking. Tried several methods on fixing this but I’ve been unable to fix the issue of even simply being able to move my guy other than keeping the ‘touch’ settings on and even then it’s not consistent. I don’t understand why this game is in the App Store for MBP if it’s not even properly supported. I’ll stick to it on mobile. Lesson learned I guess, hopefully this review will prevent someone else from making the same mistake of purchasing it through here and just get the mobile version instead.

Still worth 5* because its 9th dawn, but man… No idea why changes were made. Monster taming - replaced with rng eggs. Taming in 3 was… rough to start, but still far better than just having a miniscule chance for eggs to drop. I feel just making the entry barrier to taming more manageable would have been perfect. But it’s nice to have a full party within a couple hours of the game. Fishing - horrendous time consuming minigame. Cards - …ugh. Cool in theory, but not a true addicting card game like in 3. Standard dungeon crawling turn based rpg. What’s worse is you can’t save inbetween runs (which can last 20+ minutes) and there are virtually no rewards at all for doing it. Also no cards to collect. UI - what in the world? Took the perfect touch screen layout in 3, and replaced it with a microscopic hotbar, that you can’t even touch because your phone will think your trying to switch apps. THIS was the worst decision making every skill other than your first 3 quick slots virtually unusable. Other than those main complaints, game is still very similar to 3, just a huge step backwards in the above aspects. Still makes this better than 99.9% of everything else on the App Store, so easy 5* I just really hope for a touch screen change, I really would like to use more than 3 skills please…

Overall great game! Some of the mechanics are hard to learn at first and take awhile to get use to. A lot of it is not explained well but learning new things is kind of rewarding. Almost could use a tutorial of some sort but that’s a minor complaint. Also putting the inventory button away from the combat button would be great! It’s like pixel Skyrim basically. dungeon crawl vibe. Been looking for a game like this for awhile. Worth the 10$ for sure!