Helsing’s Fire offers 90 levels of play across three distinct environments, with 5 levels available at a time. Playing as Van Helsing, you are tasked with vanquishing Dracula and his 13 types of minions through the ingenious use of light and tonics. Each level features a randomly-generated array of environmental components with color-coded beasties strewn about.
TouchArcade: If you listen to our podcast, we often get on ramble-y vaguely off topic tangents surrounding reminiscing about great iOS games which have been totally broken by iOS updates over the years. There's a lot of games like that, but Helsing's Fire [$0.99 / Free / $2.99 (HD)] is consistently on the top of any short list of "Please Update These Games" that Jared and I come up with. Well, all this drama surrounding Papers, Please [$5.99 (HD)] this morning gave me a good reason to email developer Lucas Pope who also was responsible for Helsing's Fire. ...And boy did he give me some good news.
BeefJack: "People say you can’t possibly compare smartphone games to ‘proper’ PC and console titles like Skyrim, but Matthew Lee thinks the best of them deserve to be taken just as seriously, no matter what genre they are or how much they cost."
Why the hell are ios games being compared to consoles? Thats freaking retarted and provokes haters. They can be compared to handhelds at least since alot of ds/psp ports are on there.
Of course you can. Hardware capability means nothing. People who try to argue otherwise, whether they realize it or not, are buying into the same obnoxious pseudo-logic baby-gamers use to justify not playing older games.
Right now, it's perfectly valid to compare Dragon Age to Shadows of Amn. Both are massive, epic RPGs on the PC platform. One is vastly, vastly superior to the other. It's a valid comparison, right?
And by this time next year, Shadows of Amn will be on the iOS, and that version will make Dragon Age look /even/ worse.
I think the point of the article is that games don't need to be AAA blockbusters for $60 to be immensely enjoyable.
The future of mobile games is bright indeed.
I they can do that then I can compare me giving you a cookie to me shooting your balls off with a shotgun then pouring hot sauce on the wound.
If you’re in-the-know when it comes to indie game development or obscure iPhone games, then you already know that this review is extremely tardy…like months tardy.
