DUNGEON HUNTER ALLIANCE FAIRY SERIES

But it quickly becomes unendurably repetitive. If you can get a decent game going with three friends then this is all perfectly harmless, mindless fun. The loading times are horrendous, there’s lots of slowdown and numerous random bugs.The online mode is also glitchy and seems to make all of the above problems worse. Especially as the Vita version is riven by minor, but persistent technical faults. However, the latter at least is easier achieved with the right analogue stick.It’s easy to see why this was a success on iPhone, and why it appears increasingly less impressive the more Gameloft try to charge for it. Still, you can zoom in and out by pawing at the screen, as well as bring up the map and inventory.You’re also encouraged to shake the Vita when your character is stunned and control your helper fairy via the touchpad. Not that you’d necessarily want to but it does seem strange given that’s the control scheme it was original designed for.

Dungeon Hunter also understands the importance of freebies and even as we knew we were being cynically manipulated in our search for a new weapon or piece of armour, we still kept hoping that the next item drop would be the big one.There is some attempt to make use of the PS Vita’s special feature, but oddly you can’t play the whole game on the touchscreen. Beyond that it’s just making sure you remember to take a health potion before you die and not getting overwhelmed by a crowd of enemies (not that there are ever really that many on screen).Even Diablo didn’t get much more complex than this but it had variety on its side, in terms of both enemy encounters and the endless range of loot you could scavenge from defeated enemies. There’s very little more to the action than that, but there’s a pace and sense of feedback to the combat that shows somebody at Gameloft clearly knows what they’re doing (or at least understands what Blizzard were doing).What complications there are revolve around levelling up your character and unlocking extra abilities and magic. Choosing to play as a warrior, rogue or mage you’re able to immediately wade into battle mashing the ‘X’ button as hard as possible. What counts as a story is hurriedly recounted in a few short (and mostly unvoiced) cut scenes and simply involves the usual ancient evil and Tolkien-esque fantasy world in peril.The storytelling isn’t an issue though and in terms of combat this does get the basics right. Instead it’s pretty typical shovelware and although all the features just about work they do so grudgingly and with absolutely no flair.If you’re not familiar with Diablo or other dungeon crawlers this is a game obsessed with only two things: combat and looting. There have been three Dungeon Hunter games so far on iPhone, but this is based on the version released on the PlayStation Network last April.Considering that version is priced at £9.99 and this is trying to sell itself for £35, you might gather that this not the greatest bargain amongst the PS Vita’s launch line-up.

DUNGEON HUNTER ALLIANCE FAIRY SERIES

You name it, they’ve cloned it, but the Dungeon Hunter series is one of their more popular – perhaps because the real thing is currently only available on PC. If you guess Diablo then pat yourself on the backâ¦ and make sure you never buy the game.Gameloft seem to have found a very profitable niche for themselves copying other people’s games for release on smartphones. If you also know your game developers then the involvement of Gameloft guarantees that it must be a clone of some sort.

If you know anything about video games then you will have already realised that, with a name like that, this must be a role-player of some description. Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (PSV) – costly battle

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