Iron Blade: Medieval RPG

Overall, I really love this game. One week into this game, I was at level 25 and so far, I only spent $0.99. You don’t have to spend money to do well in this game really. There are many events you can participate, which can easily help with your upgrade. What I like about this game, every strong and higher level enemies have their weaknesses, as long as you can figure it out, and skillful enough in your timing and execution, you can beat most of time, without having the best gear possible. Of course, you may not have the best time to win 3 skulls rating, but 2 skulls rating are beyond possible with crappy gears. What I hate is how laggy the game can be. It takes a while to transition from one section to another. It got worse for me when it started freezing. So instead of having to stress out about this, I just stop playing altogether. Off to look for a better game, I guess. Listen developers, it doesn’t matter how pretty your graphics are, if people can’t have a better end-user experience, you will lose your audience.

Especially the level mechanic.. there’s been quite a few times in the boss challenges or fortress attacks where it’s says easy with the armor and weapons I currently have equipped only to die in seconds by the boss. Ex. There are 4 difficulties... with the current weapons and armor it says easy on extreme... yet I went in there and died in seconds... the enemies and boss take away too much stamina and kill me easily... when it says easy it should be easy for me not for the enemies.. it shouldn’t say easy at all. I wasted 75 energy trying to beat extreme because it says easy on it. I died EASILY all three times. Also enemies shouldn’t take so much stamina.. they shouldn’t take too little otherwise your just invincible... but boss’s shouldn’t be taking nearly half your stamina in one hit on the higher difficulties. I’m aware that your still working on it...I mean this game has been out for what a year already... so I understand that there will be a lot of things not in place yet.. but I think the level mechanic and the stamina mechanic need working. But overall it’s a pretty decent game. The story is good so far too can’t wait for that to continue.

When the game is working the gameplay and story is fun unfortunately the screen frequently freezes while play continues and that cause you to lose fights and energy. I’m actually starting to think that it’s intentional, after I win three fights in a row, on the fourth fight the screen freezes but I can hear that the action Co rubies I just can’t see to do anything. Sometimes I can get luck and spam the attack button enough to finish the fight but usually I die and lose trophies. Target switching mechanic does not work properly and is probably the worst aspect of the whole game. Since you can’t switch targets properly you’re frequently stuck targeting whichever enemy the game randomly targets. Also some enemies are so tall that they don’t fit in the camera view therefore you can’t see the bolts that appear above their head when you need to block. Good game but with some minor fixes, could be great.

Like I said I enjoyed the game briefly but didn't get into the game enough to over come my frustrations with a game mechanic. It has to do with blocking attacks. First off I'll say I love the way this is set up,I think it's the best set up I've seen. The problem I had was it takes stamina to block and as the game progresses and enemies become stronger and more numerous you easily burn through your stamina way before the end of a fight. Attacking an enemy first will interrupt their attack so when out of stamina I would switch between the attackers attacking them first but this mechanic is not as polished as the blocking mechanic. There may be a different way to approach this, if so it wasn't obvious nor included in the tutorial at the time I played. Loved the game until I hit this draw back on what's otherwise a polished mechanic and then at that point I just wasn't invested enough to start working towards figuring this out and working around it as I felt it became a large problem with game play to quickly and would hinder me significantly the rest of the game. Lastly, investing money will definitely make it easier but its not necessary to enjoy the game.

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Google “Iron Blade Chat Bot” and see how this has been an ongoing issue for a long time. See the responses from Gameloft on their own forums promising for months on end that they are fixing it. Launch the game and go to the chat just to realize that it’s useless cause all the chat bots. And that’s just the chat. Also take note of the myriad of pop up ads including their own pop up ads for in game purchases. Notice where the buy button is located at in comparison to the main buttons on the previous screen. It’s almost as if they are trying to trick you into accidentally purchasing in game content. Many many glitches, game crashes and freeze ups. Not even the ads will play properly most times. The ad starts to play the video then gets stuck. Then when you tap the ad to close it, instead you get whisked away to the ad’s website. Seriously, is this the way you guys are generating ad revenue with false forced raffia to your advertisers websites? All problems get the canned response to contact customer support. How about no! How about I just give you the review you deserve and just delete this garbage. Gameloft should be ashamed of itself.