Five Card Quest - Tactical RPG Battles Reviews – Page 7
4/5 rating based on 64 reviews. Read all reviews for Five Card Quest - Tactical RPG Battles for iPhone.
Five Card Quest - Tactical RPG Battles is paid iOS app published by Rocketcat LLC
It's a great game but...
Viddaric
I want to give this 5 stars because it's a genuinely good combat system with some cool strategy. But it has three crippling issues 1. It's unbalanced. You basically have to have a Guard in your party, because HP conservation is important and guards have all the good damage-avoiding abilities. Also, the Priest and Mage are significantly better than the Rogue and Archer. 2. The replay value is low. It would have been easy to add something like a simple "do less damage take more damage" hard mode or a challenge mode with more limited cards or weaker character classes, but they didn't, and there really isn't much to do after you win for the first time, except maybe try a no-guard run. Also the golden shuffle is pretty useless. 3. And most crippling of all: It's incredibly buggy. Enemies don't show up in the correct positions, sometimes attack indicators show up when they're not supposed to, enemies sometimes delay their attacks for no reason, cards that say they give you a free turn occasionally just fail to do so, and a lot of the card descriptions flat out lie to you. Among these: the rogue's vanish sometimes causes him to disappear indefinitely instead of attacking the following turn, the archer's tactical shuffle sometimes doesn't interrupt the enemy, the guard's mirror shield blocks and reflects all damage, not half (and is incidentally the most broken move in the game because of this), the archer's injury to insult targets the wrong enemy and doesn't do any extra damage, and the priest's Wither move WILL kill him if he uses it at low health, despite the description saying it won't, and what's more, if he dies while casting it, the attack just stops. If the bugs were fixed, I would upgrade this to 4 stars but as it stands, I can't give it more than a 2.
Great game, too much obfuscation
Szei
The battle mechanics are engaging and a nice spin on traditional turn-based combat. What keeps it from being a 5 star game is that so much information is hidden which makes it harder to plan your turns and make skillful plays. The longer you play the more you'll get a rough feeling for how much damage your cards do but this is just an unnecessary learning curve which detracts from strategic planning. Gives us an option to view the numbers behind the cards instead of vague descriptions like "little/lot of damage".
Great little time killer
Goofba11z
It's a fun game, but repetitive. The basic design is solid and it requires you to actively think and plan. Unfortunately, there's some balance issues that make it more repetitive than it should be. There's a variety of options to choose, but too many are ineffective. This leads to either sticking to what works or dying. The game is also too padded with fights that are exactly the same. With practically no incentive for battling beyond advancing toward the goal the game feels tedious at times. Despite its flaws, the core gameplay is solid, and it's quite fun in small bursts. It's great as something to distract you while waiting. Definitely better than the the average iOS game.
Just get DreamQuest
methegrate
This is a (very) weak knockoff of one of the best games on the App Store. Although there are some good ideas here, the whole is bland and repetitive. Just get DreamQuest.