Terra Battle
made by Mistwalker (founded by Sakaguchi - creator of Final Fantasy)
Gameplay:
This is the game that made me think about this thread and which convinced me that phones have now some great game.
Game does in fact feature mobile crap attributes like stamina or buying power, but this is mostly Single Player tactical/rpg game and game offers you a lot of interesting gameplay. Not only gameplay is pretty good and gameplay loop but game aspires to be above mobile gaming crap. Art is fucking stellar, music is sublime and which is the most weird thing about it Story is actually pretty good. Story resolves around exploration of titular world Terra and from chapter to chapter you start to meet various characters and kind of learn about this world, there are various boss battles that are creatively designed.
As i said on start, game unfortunately features some of mobile crap and you can't buy it to get out of this crap so be prepared to play only at best few hours a day and you can forget about collecting all the characters in game as it would require probably years of grinding. That being said they often give energy (premium currency) just for logging once in while so if you play regulary game you won't be having problems with recruiting extra characters that could change completely your combat builds.
That being said what you get in story (character do join you in story and your party expands while playing story) is enough so you don't need to actually spend energy at all for anything. Only problem is energy which kind of limits how long you can play, but it is recovered each day and when you clear chapter (so in general you can actually play whole day as long as you are good in it).
Pros:
- Legit good tactical RPG game
- Shitload of interesting characters, ton of equipment etc. which gives shitload of interesting builds you can make.
- amazing art (art director
Hideo Minaba of Final Fantasy V, VI, Tactics, IX and XII fame)
- amazing music mostly made by Umeatsu (and few great Squaresoft composers who pitched in)
- actual interesting story to follow (though it starts slow)
- while game has mobile schemes you can finish game without problem without spending anything.
Cons:
- stamina system which limits amount you can play daily
- ability to buy power
Also i think Terra Battle has one of the best Umeatsu works:
some amazing character art:
Also there is Terra Battle 2. I am yet to play it but i heard they made it even better than TB1 so i look forward to it.
