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Descent: The Adventure Review » 148Apps » iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch App Reviews and News
Matching puzzle games and RPGs. I like both those things! It’s the kind of combination I can totally get behind. At least in theory. In Descent: The Adventure’s case, it doesn’t work so well in practice. A lone warrior must fight his way through a series of dungeons, fortresses, and other assorted settings fitting for RPG combat. Experience and gold is earned through winning fights and completing areas (or even failing, but there’s about a 50% penalty to the earnings) that goes toward incremental character upgrades, as is the norm. The combat itself involves dragging a finger through three or more matching tiles (think games like Puzzle Craft or Dungeon …