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If the floaty jumping and difficult dashing are things you can live with, then Super Heavy Sword might be worth your attention. Otherwise, you're better off giving this one a pass and hoping, like me, that Monster Robot Studios are someday able to address the chronic problems that are holding back their excellent ideas and enthusiasm.

There's not enough RPG here for RPG fans, not enough exploration or puzzles for adventure fans, and not enough interesting dialogue choices for fans of conversation-heavy games. Revolution 60 would make a terrific animated movie, but as a game, I'm left a little cold by it.

There's not enough RPG here for RPG fans, not enough exploration or puzzles for adventure fans, and not enough interesting dialogue choices for fans of conversation-heavy games. Revolution 60 would make a terrific animated movie, but as a game, I'm left a little cold by it.

80 Days is a colorful and stylized look at a classic tome that places a new twist on an otherwise familiar game type. It's well worth your time, especially if you're looking for something a little more "out of the box" when it comes to mobile gaming.

If you have an MFi controller or, at the very least, a friend suffering the same handicap, this is an amazing fighting game, but if you're lacking both of those, you'll probably want to give King of Fighters '98 a pass. This has never been the strongest single-player KOF, so I'm not sure it's worth suffering the finicky controls if you're only going to play against that vile, cheating CPU.

The latter would work better with the MFi gamepad support, as it feels a bit more difficult to move than it should be, to the point where I like using the touchscreen better. But that might be because horizontal lane movement is very slow – and the game likes to require quick left-to-center-to-right movements to get glyphs.

If you like light gun shooters, Western themes, or want a very straightforward action game, you've got nothing to lose by giving Mad Bullets a shot. Its tight economy combined with the lack of gameplay variety may end up chasing you away in the end, but you'll have a great time until it does.

Traps n' Gemstones could probably benefit from a little more flash and razzle-dazzle, and a few bosses wouldn't hurt, but I'm not going to gripe too much when what's here is as good as it is. ... Moreover, its superb design ensures that all of those activities will prove to be enjoyable. This game sort of shattered my expectations of Donut Games, and if you give it a go, I think you'll agree they're onto something great here.

Of course, what I'm really saying is that I want Zombie Commando to have a perfect progression. I want its progression to feel as great as Ridiculous Fishing [$2.99] does. That's asking a lot, yes: but I think that this game's design flaws are just more apparent because there's not that simple IAP fix

It’s more of the same decent gameplay with a great visual upgrade and a pretty cool overhaul of the class and progression system. Stay tuned as we take the multiplayer out for a spin and report back in a separate review.