Partia

Pros: - Visiting Town between chapters is entertaining and makes sense. - Dialogue is expertly crafted, easily better than the ridiculous Japanese-English translation dialogue that plagued FE games - Character portraits and character personalities (so far) are mostly pretty great, with the ocasional hilariously “homemade” portrait - Special abilities on characters, including support bonuses boosts the depth of combat. Having an accuracy boost on the pathetically weak main character is especially welcome! - Big maps! Some might complain, about more tapping/clicking/turns to traverse, but big maps make battles feel epic! Cons: - Punishing EXP system (esp on expert). You will need to grind, especially with your main character, to get them strong enough to not get one shotted by enemy grunts Tips (for noobs only): - Exploit the arena. Revisiting town spawns new random arena match - Save your potions! Should be used in arena only - If you run out of potions for the arena, bring in your healer and do 2v2 matches vs. weak enemies to heal your injured units - For best EXP gains, it is most effective to unequip your character weapon and wait for a weak enemy to attack (and hopefully miss) for 25 turns, OR attack with slow/weak weapons. (Edit after response from Developers): Bumped up to 4 stars, since the punishing EXP system works as Devs intended!

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This would probably be my favorite original tactics game on iOS if it wasn't for the fact that I cannot pass Chapter 2 without losing characters. Partia is close to a perfect Fire Emblem copy, and I wish I could enjoy it fully, but I feel too much experience is needed to level, character stats are WAY too low (same with stat increases during level ups), and somehow my 80+% hit chance will miss twice, but a 30% hit chance will hit twice. At first I thought it was just bad luck, but after witnessing this happen on multiple occasions, I feel there must be some sort of imbalance. To put my frustration into an example I just experienced, my level 6 lord face to face with a level 4 hero in a duel could only do 2x2 damage with a steel sword with 61% chance of success and 13 health, died when he missed the level 4 hero twice, and the level 4 hero, with 11 health and 7 or 9x2 attack, landed a hit both times at 30 or so percent hit rate. I have had this game for ages, and I would deeply love to enjoy the full story and gameplay, but there seems to be some issues in this. Would give 5 stars, but I've been waiting for this to be fixed, I keep playing even though I know how imbalanced it is, and it will never get fixed.

Partia is a strategy game that reaches its goal of being a pretty genuine clone of Fire Emblem for iOS- the best, imo. Gameplay is pretty solid, although horizontal style is pretty awkward since the d pad is really tiny and right under the game display screen, so 60% of the device's screen isn't really used. The story is okay, and, overall, Partia is a good game for a small fee. There thankfully isn't any IAP rubbish, and that could have fit in perfectly with this kind of game. Sadly, it lacks a tutorial, so I recommend everybody to look up a quick guide on how to play Fire Emblem before embarking on a quest with Partia so that you get the basics. The thing Partia really needs, though, is full screen for vertical play for 5G devices and up. Even if you just want to fill up those empty black corners with a cool Partia wallpaper, that would be enough to keep me satisfied. I was going to put four stars because of this minor issue, but i'll cut the dev some slack- I read that the dev consists of only two people working on this game which is pretty amazing: you have done a great job. Keep up the good work.

This game is great. I have read many reviews knocking this game for lack of tutorial, but come on, this game is made for people who have played Fire Emblem and the like. I have played so much Fire Emblem and Shining Force, and I have to say, this game is pretty great when it comes to being a clone of that brand. As far as controls go, they seem to have overhauled what was once a clunky system, after reading the older reviews, and made it all touch, (when horizontal) and it handles great. The dialogue could definitely use some work, but it's still a pretty good story. After some extremely tense battles, and a few chapter restarts, I was actually able to clear the game without losing a single character, which was very difficult but the challenge was welcoming. It is possible people! Over all I would give this game a 7/10. The 5 star rating is due to being the only clone I've found that is worthy in iOS form. If you like Fire Emblem, get this game!!

Okay. I'll list some of the obvious flaws. 1. The control scheme is awkward. The way the horizontal view works is weird and the touch controls just feel wrong. In a vertical view, the D-pad and buttons are MINISCULE. Fix this problem, and the game instantly becomes better. Flaw 2: lack of tutorial/info. The lack of tutorial is okay, since the game lets you figure things out on your own with very little risk of losing your units at the beginning. But I can't see the stats on a weapon or armor. I can't even tell how much my potion heals! 3. Combat menus. Let me select an enemy, then a weapon. And for the love of God, don't set the cursor on "Back" by default! 4. Introduce the units you start with a little more. I like forming an emotional attachment with every unit I have, but I can't because they're just kinda THERE. But here are some praises: For a $4 game, this isn't bad. People would probably say I'm an idiot for saying that, but if this is supposed to imitate Fire Emblem, it's really good for 10% of the price of Awakening. So far, the storyline seems good. I REALLY like the introduction of armor. It's really cool and I've wanted it in Fire Emblem for forever. All in all, this game so far earns a solid 3.8 stars.