Its Pretty Alright – Tempest: Pirate Action RPG Review

Firstly I’m reviewing this as a owner of an iPhoneX and this game does not have iPhoneX support so my review will be biased in that regards. Firstly the gameplay, as far as naval battles go, it’s good for what it is and it is for a mobile game; ease of controls. Aside from naval battles you can treat this game as a trading simulator game buying goods at discounted prices and selling them at places where inflation is hitting. For melee combat, that is where the game falls short, it is extremely clunky and just outright borderlines disgrace. For ship-to-ship melee battles, you the player have a huge influence on how the battle will go, assuming you have enough sailors assigned to melee combat. I found out it’s much better to just throw all the low level sailors to melee combat because the bigger Zerg army wins. Lv5 sailors are somewhat a commodity so no point wasting their lives to a Zerg battle. There’s a lot more to be said but in a nutshell, it’s just almost unbearable, at least you can still play it with just annoyances. One dumb thing is this side quest called Secret Lands which has a randomized mission and among them is one where you have to defend a town with its guards. The guards will always shoot which wouldn’t be a problem... if it didn’t make you flinch if they hit you and damage you! Because of that, it gets reduced to you playing with your pistol assuming you got one. Another dumb aspect is how the attack buttons are at the right and when you win a boarding battle, three buttons appear and coincidentally, you guessed it, a button pops up very near to the attack buttons and it’s the worst one of the three in my opinion but I digress. I once took over a Galleon but accidentally tapped the button because I thought there were still enemies left. Graphics is great for what it is. Seems to have quite a bit of ship customization as well but the parts are rare and expensive. There’s magic in this game as well and they’re kind of broken... as in very powerful. I got this spell which rains fireballs on a target ship and it does like 105 hull damage... and I have 2. And they have short cool downs... and low energy cost. So I can literally just sit there, pick my nose, and press two buttons to win. So iPhoneX experience... I can barely see my spells let alone my energy. Text and some other menus are almost untouchable due to their orientation within the screen. I feel like I’m missing important information. I hope devs update support but I find it unlikely seeing as their last update was 2 months ago as of this review. iPhoneX has been out for a while and well... let’s leave it at that.
Review by Legible on Tempest: Pirate Action RPG.