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Oct 02, 2014 Adventure Xpress for iPhone/iPad game reviews & Metacritic score: A new twist on Match-3 gameplay - Equip weapons, armor, and spells to personalize your strategy against foes. Match three or more runes to attack. A huge journe.
There's a glut of puzzling RPGs on the App Store. The sort of game where you match stuff to whomp monsters in the face with magically enchanted weapons.Adventure Xpress is Adult Swim throwing its hat into that crowded ring. The template is a familar one.
The bottom of the screen is a grid made up of multiple different coloured gems. The top is a scrap between your character and a monster.Match the gems in bunches of three and your character takes a swing. Bigger combos deal bigger damage.
The fight continues until either you or your foe have lost all of your hit points. Rinse and repeat.While it may not be original there's a nice rhythm to Adventure Xpress, and a few tricks that make it stand out. Plus the energy system is almost non-existent for the first couple of hours, and when it does pop up it's barely noticeable. A large parcelRather than setting out on a lofty quest to clear the land of monsters, here you play a medieval delivery driver. You're given a package, then wander from town to town until you get to deliver it. Along the way you're accosted by a variety of bandits.Battles usually occur in groups of two or three, and you need to survive each of the encounters to get the loot at the end.Different bad guys have different strengths and weaknesses. The plant people don't take as much damage from the green gems, but the ice skeletons and yetis take more from fire.
It adds a pretty interesting level of tactics to your matches.You don't need to clear gems every time you slide a piece, but after every move you'll take some damage. It's still worth shuffling things around to get to use the powerful shiny gems that appear on the grid.These blast out energy when they're cleared. Some are bombs that clear the space around them while others fire out horizontal, vertical, or crossed lines of fire. Chain mailIt's worth using these because your weapon has a critical move. This unlocks after you've cleared a set number of gems from the board in a single turn. Clear enough and the grid flashes and you can do more damage.You also have spells. These supplement your moves and build up as you clear gems.
They're elemental as well, so you need to use them wisely and check the sort of enemy you're fighting.You earn cash as you fight, and when you level up can spend it on better gear. You get a couple of choices each level, and figuring out which will work best for you is part of the fun. You can upgrade your spells and fill them up at the start of a fight as well. Press to sendThings do get a little grindy, and I had to head back to earlier fights a couple of times to toughen up for scraps I couldn't finish.
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You lose a potion when you die, and they take some time to regenerate, but it's not that annoying.There's enough in Adventure Xpress that you'll want to keep playing. It's well put together, and while there are walls, they're easy enough to navigate if you're willing to put some time in.
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You’ve never played a mail delivering game like this! Adventure Xpress is an RPG puzzle match-3 hybrid that puts you in the shoes of a messenger in a fantasy land full of bandits and deadly monsters! You’ve got a job to do though, so it’s up to you to fight your way through to make sure your letters are delivered in a timely fashion! We’ll provide you with tips to surviving your quest with our Adventure Xpress cheats, tips and trick strategy guide!
There are a lot of baddies to get through on your epic quest to deliver letters, so let’s get started with our Adventure Xpress cheats, tips and tricks strategy guide.
1. Exploit your enemies’ weaknesses!
As per the usual for these match-3 RPGs, there are five elements: fire, water, grass, light, and dark. Fire beats grass, grass beats water, and water beats fire. Light and dark beat each other! You can tell the enemy’s element by looking at their name plate – a little icon will display it. Match their weaknesses as much as possible, as hitting an enemy’s weakness automatically doubles your damage!
2. Take advantage of critical chances!
You’ll notice that each weapon that you can equip has a stat on it called “Runes to Crit”. This number is the amount of runes you need to match in one turn in order to get a critical chance for your next move. When you have a critical chance, your total damage for that turn is doubled for big damage!! You’re going to have to decide though between the two stats. Usually, a weapon will have high attack but also a high amount of runes to crit, and sometimes they’ll have low attack but a very low rune crit. If you’re good at setting up big combos, I would suggest the low rune crit weapons.
3. Deny enemy attacks to keep your runes safe!
3. Deny enemy attacks to keep your runes safe!
Some enemies will attack your rune board! They will mark specific runes, and they will begin to flash. If left alone for too long, the enemy will attack the runes, locking them and rendering them immobile. To free them, you have to match them. To stop an enemy from locking your runes, you can match the affected runes to remove them from the board.
4. Utilize your magic to do extra damage!
As you level up, you’ll gain access to powerful magic to help you turn the tides of battle. The first spell you get is the Fire spell, which is a simple damage spell. It’s relatively weak, but it charges up very fast. Speaking of which, to charge up a magic spell, you need to match runes of the corresponding spell. So, for the fire spell, you match fire runes! Simple! The next spell you get can save your life if used in a pinch: the grass spell! It does weak damage but it stuns, which gives you a free turn. If you want to, you can also spend magic potions to have your spells instantly charged at the beginning of a fight.
5. Match more than three runes for bonus runes!
When you match four runes, you’ll get one of those horizontal or vertical blasting runes that clears the entire row or column when matched. If you match five runes, you get the bomb runes that detonates in an area around itself. If you combining these special runes, you can get some really devastating effects, such as a three column/row blast, so try to match more than three runes if possible!
6. Pull off combos for big damage!
Setting up combos is a little harder in this game since you can only move runes one place at a time, and every time you do the enemy takes a turn. If you do manage to pull it off though, it’s very well worth it, as big combos do crazy damage. If this is your approach though, I highly recommend – as I mentioned above – to take a low rune to crit weapon, so you get as many critical chances as you can. The low base damage on the weapons won’t matter since you’re going to be multiplying the heck out of it.
That should be enough to set you on your way. Good luck mighty mailman! If you have any other questions or suggestions, leave a comment below!
How do I earn more money….not the coins but the “green currency”…thanks!
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