Mighty Party: Battle Heroes

So, starting out, the game has gotten much better since my last review many moons ago. UI improvements, hero balancing.. all solid options. Removing the random battle system for a colosseum mini-game bit was an… interesting move, to say the least. I personally would have preferred to continue with the random match up (much higher replay value). My caveat: One of the latest heroes, Arahin God’s Will NEEDS… *NEEDS*… **NEEDS!!** to be rebalanced. If you have him in your line-up, matches will almost entirely swing in your favor, 9/10 times. His ability, the phantom attack, is a little OP but can be worked around. The fact that he also has evasion AND steals a percentage of attack from EVERY enemy hero makes the phantom attack (and him as a hero) incredibly unbalanced and overpowered. Unless you can kill him right after he comes out, he is HARD to remove, save with the nature legendary hero that silences all enemies in the line that he appears in. While that is clearly a workaround, what that does by proxy is force a build to include that specific hero. This is the MAIN reason as to why he needs to be rebalanced: because he forces the use of a specific hero to successfully counter him.

I like this game the actual system of the game is fun. There are multiple strategies you can play and a decent amount of modes to play. However it has some serious downsides: 1.) The pay to win is super strong. In the PVP it is super obvious when other players have sunk in a bunch of to buy cards, pets, and leaders, and the ones that cost a ton of money give pretty huge advantages over the free or cheap options. Which I get it the developers want to make money. However the pay to win in the story mode (a FTP players bread and butter) is even worse, the progression ramps up way too fast, the enemy leaders have stupidly broken abilities, the enemy cards are on way higher levels than you very quickly. I should get first turn killed by an opponent with little to no ability to effect that outcome, but I’ve had it happen more than once. 2.) The crashing…dear god the crashing this needs to be fixed. The game crashes all the time and you lose resources and matches when it does. Many times I have been on the brink of winning a match, only have the game crash and instead get credited with a loss. Which is bad enough when it is a free match (brawl or battle) but in events when it consumes resources to have matches and you can pay literal real world money for gems to get more chances, and you lose because the game crashes it is super frustrating. Stack this with the pay to win elements and it is even worse as if you crash on a level where you have struggled for a long time it is even more frustrating.

Positive- It is a great game to play, there are things to do daily, and keeps me interested with the quickness of actions, characters are progress and there are cards that you collect to upgrade the fighting grunts. It is interesting to find the next characters to collects cards for. Negative side - sometimes it’s a little slow to make progress, wait times for rewards are a little long, staying on the app to get additional rewards is just waiting. There is not enough to do all the time and I find myself coming back once to twice a day to do tasks. There are so many characters to use that I use auto play to fight, not sure on the link between main character group and the fighting grunts... it is a little complex and will take time to learn the relationships to better use the grunts more effectively. Final analysis- reminds me of Idle Heroes with character upgrades and multiple combinations to fight other people. It is simple at first and walks you through the progress and at times is slow. Only a week playing this app and I see other-multiple games that have the same format. 4 star for ease of play and creativity, but lacks explanation of relationships of characters and for the length of time to unlock between every time you level up (play time and advancement for a beginner is similar to playing an app for a year, takes the same amount of time to unlock new things no matter how long you have been playing the game).