Similarly, updates are already in the pipeline and the makers are promising more creatures to slice and more weapons to dice them with. Unfortunately, the multiplayer option found on the original app hasn't yet been translated to this release, although it's already earmarked a space in the game menus, promising to reward challengers with in-game goodies. If you're looking to get to the ending, you can skip ahead by exchanging your real-world money for in-game gold, but even then, you should find plenty of gaming hours here - it took us over a week of concentrated gaming to go through the whole storyline. There's still room for improvement - the game rewards obsessive replay, and it can get very repetitive, although Infinity Blade 2 does attempt to add more variety to its character designs (female baddies!), kill animations and wacky helmets. The gameplay is still very well suited to mobile devices - you can literally spend a minute exploring and fighting, lock your phone, make a phone call and jump back in where you left off.
Any difference between devices seems negligible from the time we spent playing on the original hardware - we did, however, play most of this review slashing away at the screen of our iPhone 4S. Load times barely ever get in the way, although they are slightly more pronounced on the older iPhone 4 and original iPad.
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Granted, it can't stun players with the same "a phone's capable of this?" sort of way, but the game is noticeably sharper, taking full advantage of the high-resolution screens of the Apple hardware. They've cranked up the light effects here, so expect to be impressed all over again if you were wowed by the original. Journeying around the stages of Infinity Blade 2 will take you from oriental temples with plenty of eastern style licks, to what appears to be the increasingly ruined locale of the first game. You'll now come across keys too around half of the treasure chests are now locked-down, unless you have the right key. You're no longer able to resell mastered equipment, so it's now well worth taking the time to search around the environs for extra money. Minor gambling has arrived here in the form of new prize wheels (in three pricey flavors) offering the chance of high-end weaponry, if you're willing to risk the chance of a sub-optimal weapon at the same time. Depending on which jewels you embed, you can also increase the spoils of battle with extra money or higher chances of equipment drops.Įquipment and item management has been overhauled, as has the in-game store, with new pre-fight energy drinks offering health regeneration and double experience points - for a price. A new customizable option for weapons and armor, gems, now add extra elemental damage and defenses. The power attacks that charge up during fights will also differ between the three weapon classes. You'll find a style that suits, although overall damage is less of an issue, and it's more decided by your preferred method of damage limitation. There's the typical sword and shield combo from Infinity Blade, a high damage (but slower) two-handed weapon where defense is now exclusively block-based and dual-wielding weapons for faster attacks with defense limited to dodges. While the battles themselves remain, at their core, pretty similar to the first release, there are now three different weapon styles. Sound is suitably grand, although you will tire of the same grunts and huffs by the hundredth battle. Purists may scream that it's a dumb-down, but we felt a little more involved in the plot exposition. We'll leave the narrative to reveal itself, but the sequel has done away with those "nordish" voices of old, with a very swift transition within the first ten seconds to English voice actors. We stuck with the staple Siris, a thinly veiled nod to the voice assistant of Apple's latest smartphone. You also now have the curious honor of naming the hero as you please.
Unsurprisingly, his plans soon come unstuck, and you start anew with bottom-rung equipment and skills. The game follows on from the end of the first game, the protagonist now wielding the Infinity Blade and attempting to finish the ruling Deathless once and for all.
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