TouchArcade: As we mentioned in our Game of the Week post, there’s a certain amount of oversaturation that has hit the Match-3 genre on the App Store. Thus, the launch of Hero Emblems [$2.99] was met with some skepticism that it would be yet another Match-3 with nothing to differentiate itself. Thankfully that’s not the case with this gorgeous puzzler. Impressive strategic implications, beautiful visuals, and great RPG mechanics make this title worth checking out.
Heatpot Games made an incredibly difficult mobile RPG. But Hero Emblems was never really developed as a mobile game.
Taiwanese indie studio HeatPot Games has released its turn-based, tile-matching JRPG Hero Emblems on iOS. You can purchase it on the App Store during its launch period at the discounted price of $2.99 before it goes up to its full price of $3.99.
Hero Emblems puts you in charge of the four heroes that collectively make up the princess’s armed guard. You have to take them on a quest across the game’s adventure map to rescue the kidnapped princess, finding a rumored cure for the dying king along the way, and eventually taking on the source of all these mishaps, the God of Evil.
TouchArcade: The match-3 RPG genre is one that I love, but one that's getting to that point of over-saturation that whenever a new one comes out I find it hard to get excited for. It was for that reason that when Hero Emblems [$2.99] launched this week, I didn't give it more than a passing glance, as I figured "Oh it's just another one of those." However, the enthusiasm from players in our forums caused me to give Hero Emblems a more discerning look, and boy am I ever glad that I did. It's still early on, but at this point I feel like this is finally the match-3 RPG that I've been waiting for.
