RPG Grinsia

Just finished the game. Great story and game play. I got many, many hours of play out of it and enjoyed it. Not too much grinding. Enemies came at a good rate, not too much to be annoying, but enough that you don't have to grind.

So many RPGs on iOS are bad ports of console or pc games. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that the UI is very touch friendly, and the graphics are good even in 2x mode on my tablet. This is an old school rpg but it has modern responsiveness and you can tell the developers took care to make it appear nice on all devices. It doesnt break much new ground, but just the fact that it actually runs well on my tablet is a wonder - so many other RPGs run at a too fast clock speed or the translation is poor. With this game it doesn't have those problems. Old school charm done right on ios!

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I usually love games by this maker. Not this one. Can't find anything good to say about this game.

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Grinsia basically covers several tropes you've seen in other games (evil empire, goddesses with magical items like Zelda's triforce, etc.). If you can tolerate the cliches, you'll find a competent game here; unfortunately, when you start collecting the 6 treasures, the game bombards you with dull fetch quests. At least the porter system limits backtracking by letting you teleport to places you already visited. Auto-winning against scrub monsters is a nice idea too; it just plays the victory music and shows the experience you get when you become too strong for monsters in an area. The only other problem I have is that the menu could've had better controls; a quick exit button rather than backtrack out every step. Also, you can accidentally choose an item since you swipe to scroll, but at least you have a confirmation so you can decline before buying/using items. I also think steal should either be free or cost 1 mp rather than 5 since it's too expensive in the beginning of the game for my healer to use more than once per battle; in other games, steal is generally free since you give up a turn to get an item. I wouldn't recommend this game since other average rpg's on the app store don't put the main game on hold with having to do mundane things and backtrack (if an area didn't have a porter, it can be tiresome).

I figured out how to fix the issues int he game if you're having problems read this. You _Must_ enable open feint. The reason the game lags and crashes constantly is it tries to access your open feint details all the time, so if you don't enable it, it will be anywhere from 5-10 minutes before the memory leak hits an extreme point and crashes your app or even your device! I enabled open feint and have had zero problems since. I don't think the developers intended that you must enable open feint to play the game, but they must have not tested what happens if you don't. Hopefully they fix this soon, I'll post an updated review once I clear all the aspects of the game.