Brave Dwarves Review
Is it a Magician, a warrior, or little people? Nope. None of those, it an app by ‘GO! Games’. This game is like some familiar console games and it is a great action/platform game as well.
The main objective of Brave Dwarves is purge the dungeons of all it’s foul monster’s and while doing so collect as much treasure as you can.
In order to do that you will have to fight your way through 5 different worlds and fight lots of different types of monsters. It gets very difficult by the third level.
You have the choice at the beginning of two different characters a Warrior or The Wizard. I picked the wizard because he has ranged attacks and you can be father away so you won’t die as often as the Warrior.
As you progress you will unlock 12 additional weapons per class to help fight off the various monsters you will meet. That doesn’t include the 5 Boss battles that await you, or the 100 levels needed to complete the game.
Movement is very simplistic; you can choose to use the virtual directional arrows or the tilting method. or using the accelerometer based movement. In my opinion the direction arrows are the best as the tilt method seems to be over sensitive and causes problems while climbing or jumping for me. Why can we not adjust sensitivity in these games developers!??
To attack using your selected weapon you just tap anywhere eon the screen, and your weapon will attack directly in front of you. Each weapon has its own mana costs which are removed from the ball on the top left. These can be recharged by collecting gems.
At the end of each level after you have found all the keys rusted, gold, and platinum you can progress to the door and over to the next level.
An though the graphics might not be pushing the iPhone capabilities they are done adequately. It reminds me of some older Nintendo 64 games. The Character models could be a bit better and there does tend to be a slight bit of lag or frame rate issues some times. Nothing game killing mind you. It could use a little smoothing out especially with large number of objects on the screen at once.
Overall while this is not my favorite style of gameplay I did find it to be a pretty fun adventure. I do wish there were some additional health packs tossed in as there is a never ending amount of enemies and very few health packs throughout. That said I would recommend this app to those of you who are into action platform style games. It’s not expensive and it’s always nice to try something different.
The Good
Good Concept
Great Game playing ExperienceThe Bad
Not the most visually pleasing app out there
Game gets hard pretty fast
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i love platformers and this sounds like a good one. Plus, if Big Albie recommends it, its a good game.
retro game, bad graphics
I think I’d really like this one…and there’s nothing wrong with it reminding you of a Nintendo 64 game.
Keep the platformers coming as long as they have good controls.
For those on the fence, there is a PC demo out there.
Looks cool def like a console version game from nintendo. Looks very fun
It looks like it has potential.
Brave Dwarves is one the better platformers because it’s not overwhelming and doesn’t try to do too much. The dev recently updated the controls so the gameplay should appeal to the broader audience.