I understand the game tweaked a few parameters from the Nintendo DS version. There are few things more satisfying than a see-saw battle that plays out over twenty minutes that ends with your team landing the killer blow with only a smidgem of your own health left. The end result is a game that feels endlessly enjoyable. The is a massive variety of distinct units in the game, dozens of artifacts that can change the gameplay dynamics and an impeccably well-designed difficulty curve that gradually challenges the player with more complex and tactical battles. Know that Clash of Heroes is a game that is significantly greater than the sum of its parts. I am fully aware that what I have described does not sound particularly ground-breaking or special. The game then introduces the ability to chain and stack units (see the connections to gem-based puzzle games still?) and voila, you have another winning effort from Capybara.
The opening battles in Clash of Heroes serve as a tutorial for the game’s mechanics which gradually introduce larger and more powerful units called Elites and Champions into the mix.
It’s incredible how much mileage they’ve drawn from this single gameplay mechanism and how well they’ve done it too. The game is developed by the likable Capybara Games studio from Canada who previously released the iPhone game Critter Crunch which I rated as one of the Best Video Games of 2009.Ĭritter Crunch took the simple ‘match 3’ puzzle game mechanic popularized in Bejewelled and turned it into an addictive and charming iPhone game involving little creatures that devour one another.Ī year later, they’ve taken the same starting principle and expanded it into a strategy RPG game. It took a re-release on Xbox Live Arcade to grab my attention. In fact, it was so far off my radar that I didn’t know the game existed, a year after it was released on the Nintendo DS, a device of which there are four in my household. Publisher: Ubisoft Now this was a pleasant surprise.Ĭlash of Heroes: Might and Magic was not a game on my radar.
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