Little Alchemist: Remastered

This game is excellent and is one of my favorite mobile games of all time; one of my favorite aspects of the game involves discovering unique combinations between cards and achieving powerful combinations in battle. I noticed that while I can combine two cards together to get a powerful version; often times it would be cool to see two combined cards combine together to form Mega cards. For example combining water and human in a card battle results in a mermaid and combing a human and magic results in a wizard. What if you spend one turn combining water and human to get mermaid and have the option of either choosing it to battle or putting it on the bench and you spend the next turn combining human and magic to get wizard and have the option of either choosing it to battle or putting on bench. Then the third turn, you can combine wizard and mermaid to get a new rarity of cards called Mega and the resulting secondary combination is the combined stat total of the two previously combined cards with a brand new Mega ability. Say the human had 9 attack power and 8 defense power and the mermaid had 10 attack power and 10 defense power. The mega combination between mermaid and human could be called Mermage and would have 19 attack power and 18 defense power and would have the absorb ability. Megas don’t consume combo orbs unlike final forms do so it becomes beneficial to perform secondary combinations to achieve even more power.

I have reviewed this app about 3 times now, and I am very happy to say that the feedback I gave has been implemented every time. The game is now very free to play friendly, and it is easier to progress through the game. There have been some excellent quality of life changes with the shorting system as well. With great deals on card packs, a sustainable way to earn diamonds, and the special deals on essence packs, you can spend money if you want to, but it isn’t required. Here is what I hope to see in the future for this game. I need more endgame content to continue to enjoy this game where I can earn more coins and essence. It is extremely hard in the endgame to get coins that you need to buy essence packs to upgrade your endgame cards. I get 75 coins every time I beat the final boss of the game on the hardest difficulty. That means I’d need to repeat this 64 times to get the 3 pack of diamond boosts and it costs 9 energy each time I fight him. Also, I’d like to see more ways to earn onyx fragments. I have played this game for over a year, spent money, and still don’t have an onyx card. Part of the reason is because it’s extremely hard to rank highly in this game’s arena and trials. I have a 60 card deck of onyx and gold combo cards fully upgraded, and I am barely managing to break 1500 in trials and diamond 1 in the arena. I don’t know if there is a bot issue or if the leaderboard just encompasses too many people, but maybe the leaderboard could be more localized to something like each continent. I am hopeful that there is more good changes to come in the future, and I hope the devs read this new review too! I will update my review again as changes are made.

I played this game when it first came out like 13 years ago and the game back then had a major fault, it was insanely pay to win or you’d spend years and years waiting for upgrades and for a boss to even drop a singular card. Back then everyone would just change the date and time in the iPhone settings to skip the timers on upgrades and research, this was the only way to make the game playable and once we did that it ruined the experience and the game was quickly dropped. Now it’s remastered yay, hopefully that means they’ll remove the insane pay wall right? Nope this game is still impossible to progress through without spending a singular dime. They from the start make you repeatedly fight bosses for better loot but literally nothing drops (maybe one card after 10 boss fights) and the game is energy based so you have to wait after a couple fights (unless you pay for energy because you literally start with none and leveling your character takes literally forever. Shouldn’t a low level character get exp faster???). Another thing is they do no help you at all when it comes to your first upgrades (not even a little push), they start you off with no gems or anything so you are forced to wait hours upon hours to research two card combos (you can pay for more slots). THIS GAME is still as bad as it was back then and I really hoped they would’ve remastered the crappy system and paywall instead of simply upscaling the resolution on mobile (that’s all they did).