Hero Emblems - A Classic Bejeweled Match 3 Game with RPG Element

Hero Emblems iOS Game Review

Hero Emblems ($3.99) by Chun Lung Kuo is a classic bejeweled match 3 game with RPG element. There are plenty of match 3 games in app store and most of them are not bejeweled style of game play. To be honest I'm not interested in Hero Emblems at the beginning when the game was launched until I know it is a bejeweled style of match 3 game. I play a lot bejeweled 3 on my PC back then and because of this bejeweled style, I bought this game.

Hero Emblems has a story, a funny story I would say. Four heroes to begin an adventure to destroy the evil power. The four heroes -Howard (Attacker - Sword Emblem), Alston (Paladin - Shield Emblem), Elsa (Magician - Stars Emblem), and Trista (Healer - Heart Emblem).

I'm not so much into the story, I'm more into the hero adventure and the game play. I can't stop playing for about an hour or so, the game is so addicting once I know how the game mechanism works. So basically Hero Emblems game play just like bejeweled, match 3, match 4 to get a special block, and match 5 to get a super power block. In Hero Emblems, match 3 of any element to grant 1 attack, match 4 to grant 2 attacks and get 1 skill block for that element, match 5 to grant 3 attacks and get 1 skill block for that element if match 5 is from 'L' and 'T' format, and match 5 in a line get 1 s.skill block. When next move is matched with skill block, it will activate that hero skill. When next move is s.skill block, it will activate that hero s.skill. For s.skill block, no need match with same element, simply match with any element will activate s.skill for that hero.

Town

Since part of Hero Emblems is RPG, so there are towns, treasure boxes, levelling, and most fun part is beating boss! Town has a house symbol in the map and it allows player to buy items (HP potion, DP potion, debuff potion), buy heroes' skill, and heroes' emblems. Levelling is one of the most important elements in RPG game to gain more HP, defence, and attack power, but to gain more attack in Hero Emblems is to buy high tier of emblems instead of levelling. As by level up, hero gain very little attack increase while buying new tier of emblems give hero a lot more attack! Of course, buying new tier of emblems required more money. There is no IAP in Hero Emblems so to get more money, player required to grind dungeon a little more.

Treasure boxes sometimes randomly appear in map that give players money, not so much tho. But blue treasure boxes usually have fixed spot or location in dungeon, for example there is a blue treasure box in certain dungeon path A, and this blue treasure box is always there until player open it. Open a treasure box required key and the key is randomly placed in the puzzle, player is required to make the key reach at the bottom of the puzzle within period of turns. If player failed the treasure box will be disappear and hero carry on with the map or dungeon. But player still able to get blue treasure box if failed by re-visit the same dungeon over and over again.

For those who are interested to find some skills in blue treasure box, please visit Skill Location. I had compile a list of where to find this skill and I will keep update as I progress in Hero Emblems. As well as emblem location in blue treasure box, please visit Emblem Location!

As mentioned above, the most fun part in Hero Emblems is beating boss! Yes, there are bosses in each dungeon and there are quite strong starting second island onwards. Each boss has certain skill resists and some boss is immune with basic attack (match 3). So some bosses are hard to kill due to lack of effective skill against boss, when the boss is resist with the skill, 0 damage to the boss. For those boss is immune with basic attack, this will be more difficult as each attack need to be from skill attack and remember boss immune with basic attack also resists some skill, so have fun there!

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