Did you and your friends long for a heroic quest? Storming the castle, dungeon and/or menacing forest? Then it’s possible you picked up Pocket Heroes by F5 Games.
If you didn't let me fill you in. In the same vein as Hero Academy, Pocket Heroes is an asynchronous multiplayer game with the focus on role-playing.
Touch Arcade: Pocket Heroes [ $0.99 ] is a game we've been following and looking forward to for some time. If you miss the weekly tabletop RPG session you had in college, or if you'd be on WoW if only you had a dozen or so more free hours in the day, then Pocket Heroes is looking for you.
Rocket Jump: This week Jim, Ben and Aaron regale you with tales of professional wrestling, dueling internet providers, and swear words on AMC. We talk Orcs Must Die! 2, Dyad, and Pocket Heroes. We also discuss all the games we’ve played this summer so far and what’s accumulating in our backlogs. Then we answer your voicemails and Aaron dies. A big hello to all our new listeners on Stitcher Radio!
Pocket Gamer: Back in the halcyon days of 16-bit RPGs, multiplayer gameplay only really existed when one player let his friend hold the controller while he went off to grab a snack.
While convenient to the primary player, this elementary form of multiplayer often left the secondary players feeling underutilised and frustrated.
