July is a month of bumper for smartphones games, including the brand new persona 5: The Phantom X for iOS and Android.
Although the summer months are traditionally a period when video game release hours enter their version of hibernation, mobile things are always animated. Supercell in particular has been occupied, with a major update for Boom beach in difficulty and an even larger beach for Clash Royale; This adds a new auto battler game mode based on Tour based on Clash Mini, a game that the developer abandoned last year after a multi-country test launch.
This month, the English subtitles version of Persona 5: The Phantom X, is far from being ruined by the addition of Mechanics of Light Gacha; Kingdom Rush 5 Apple Arcade version: TD alliance; And a fresh outing in the excellent series of creators of Pont Meteorfall, Rustbowl Rumble.
No time at home
iOS, free – full game £ 4.99 (SMG Studios)
The stock market of your light years from the earth, no way to return, is a two-stick shooter with role play elements, mixing exploration and shooting with an addictive power supply for your ship, each look, sounds and feels satisfactorily.
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Appropriately for a shooting focused on shooting, the handling of weapons and the feeling of piloting your ship are refined and reactive, operating perfectly on the touch screen and avoiding the need for a Bluetooth controller.
Although the majority of the missions come down to flying somewhere and drawing a bunch of foreigners, the ironic script and the voice play helps to provide a solid distraction, in this polite and extremely entertaining mobile port, which was previously only available for Apple Arcade subscribers.
Score: 8/10
Nourish the deep
iOS, free – full game £ 6.99 (Luke Muscat)
Borrowing part of his mechanics from the relatively little known ocean goalkeeper: the survival of the dome, nourishing the deep plunging you into dark 2D caves systems and generated procedurally in search of a giant beast and a piece to fall into its mouth.
To do this, you will have to feed your diver, increasing the oxygen tanks, the swimming speed and the ability to slide lots of treasures with you, using bombs to explode new paths through the Souterraine Water Daedalus.
With a feeling of difficulty and gradually increasing complexity, the feeling of progression, while you tease the secrets of each labyrinth while ensuring that you do not drown accidentally or to be eaten by monsters in the shape of a calmar, turns out to be convincing.
Score: 8/10
Persona 5: The Phantom X
iOS & Android, free (SEGA)
Already in a beta version open for a year in Asia, the Phantom X Worldwide version keeps the original Japanese voice game, but now offers well-translated English subtitles, in a game that keeps the style and gameplay of the longtime persona franchise.
He effortlessly mixes the shenarials of the banal secondary school with more fantastic activities, while keeping the series `mechanically involved, a turn -by -turn fight, although adding microtransactions of Gacha, which feel for once relatively harmless.
The only time its bothering monetization is a deliberate level of level which forces you to pay or support relatively uninspired version of version, a process which is also hampered by the slowly regenerating endurance that governs if you can collect rewards at the end of the levels.
However, if you like Persona, this provides a new set of interesting characters and successfully translates the Flair of Persona 5 in a portable format, although it also has reduction features with the PC version.
Score: 7/10
Ultimate chicken horse
IOS & Android, free trial – Full game £ 9.99 (Noodlecake)
Originally released on PC almost a decade ago, the Ultimate Chicken Horse is an absurd festival game for two to four players.
From the left of the screen, each player grabs an accessory, which could be a door, a platform, a deadly point ball or a number of other comedy objects, to position it on the screen. The objective is to collaborate to build a path to the goal to the right of the screen, while making the other players as possible for other players to get there.
His gameplay at a quick rhythm and his cute art style animated by hand focuses on humor, but playing against online opponents removes the pleasure and jokes of the same screen sofa. Although the local game is possible, you will all have to buy the game, increasing the cost at untenable levels. It is a big game but which is not well suited to mobile.
Score: 6/10
Kingdom Rush 5: TD + Alliance
iOS, included with Apple Arcade subscription (Ironhide Studios)
The Kingdom Rush series by Ironhide Studios is the King of Tower Defense Games undisputed, allowing you to build and upgrade the turrets while ordering heroes, spells and support troops that you can guide individually around the battlefield.
Apart from the battle, you select buffs and new skills for your heroes and towers, and buy consumables to get you out of the particularly narrow places you may meet.
The only thing that used Rankle about Kingdom Rush: TD alliance was its insistence to try to whip your supplements – including heroes who would be otherwise inaccessible – even if it was already a paid game. The Apple Arcade version naturally continues with all this, which instantly makes the defined version of the game.
Score: 8/10
Metaorfall: Rustbowl Rumble
IOS & Android, £ 6.99 (SLOTHWERKS)
Rustbowl Rumble is the last terrace manufacturer to emerge in the gradually expansion of meteors. Like his predecessors, he is a turn -based cards fighter, but this time the fights involve up to four pugilists of each team.
In addition to paying particular attention to the order of turn, to ensure that your attacks, defenses and healing occur in time to be useful, there are also jkers who modify the rules for a single round, and the exploits required by the crowd, which can bring fairly heavy bonuses if you manage to complete them.
There are such a range of combinations of brawls, advantages, attacks, status effects and buffs that you will continue to discover new approaches even after several hours of play. A really deep and complex mobile strategy game, with pleasant artisanal visuals.
Score: 8/10
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