Pretty good iOS port with some room to improve – Jade Empire™: Special Edition Review

What it needs most: 1) freeze action from the Mac version that lets you halt everything, look around, and select your enemies 2) camera control that lets you look around sometimes—like at the floating palace that you otherwise can’t even see above the capital 3) setting for manual-only enemy switching. 4) some easier way to switch between all fighting styles than remapping the quick switcher Pros: - it works on iPhone and iPad! - clever addition of Cloud Save to allow transfer between devices - I’m able to play fairly well with the touch controls, both regular and advanced Cons: - it often gets into a choppy state after sleeping that can only be fixed by doing the “iOS force quit” and relaunching - all touch controls in advanced mode only work VERY LOW down. I wasn’t able to heal until I happened to do it near the bottom of the screen. - not having the things I previously listed as “needing most” make the gameplay less enjoyable and less in control - if the cloud saving could be automatic without too much trouble, that would keep us from getting stranded on a device that doesn’t have the latest save(s) on it
Review by Hobyx on Jade Empire™: Special Edition.