Mobile Thursday Review of Battle Fury

Do you have an Android phone? Do you desire that classic turn based Final Fantasy Tactics style game? Well Noumena Innovations has created a game that should help to fill that void in your nerd heart. Battle Fury is all about the tactics used from turn to turn, positioning your tanks up front and mages, healers, and rangers in the back while using your skills to the fullest of their potential.

Battle Fury offers questing with your squad of 2-8 (depending on the mission) and player versus player rounds. Starting off with a basic warrior like character, in this case, the Squire Kid, you quickly progress through missions until you unlock healers, mages, rogues, paladins, and better warriors. Characters can level up but because early on you will be replacing them with better characters so often it isn’t very useful. They have a max level of 5 with each level increasing their health and damage dealt.

Because it is a free game each character in your squad has an energy bar, a battle that you have won will consume 1 energy and a battle that you have lost will consume 2 energy, each character only has 5 and this is one of the ways they try to make money off the game. By purchasing gems you can restore the energy of the character but with a little patience it will restore itself over time (1 per hour).  As you level up you unlock more character slots so eventually you will have enough characters for 2 or more full squads depending on the mission so don’t think you will find yourself without things to do in the game because of energy issues very often. Leveling up a character also restores the characters energy but because the cap is 5 after that point you won’t get full restores.

The combat is pretty straight forward, positioning, skills, focus firing, they all play a major role. Unfortunately there is only one map so in that respect it can get a bit tiring seeing the same thing all the time. The game is still being updated from time to time so I hope to see different types of maps (elevation maybe?) eventually. One function they did put in the game which I found both enjoyable and frustrating is the ability to have your characters automatically fight without your commands meaning that you can just watch as the battle progresses. It is kind of cool to watch but there is either a major flaw or huge disadvantage to doing this. If you tell your squad to automatically fight without you the healers will still heal but mages, warriors, and rogues won’t use any special abilities. I’m not sure as to whether this was intentional or not but I found after about level 22 I wasn’t able to tell my squad to fight alone and be successful without me anymore, they would just lose over and over.

 

There is a player versus player mode in Battle Fury as well. Instead of fighting monsters, you fight other squads. I quickly found all healer squads dominate in this category when using the automatic function but without it any equivalent level squad can be effective with enough focusing. The ranking system seems crude at best, I never began to understand how the rankings would work and it is hard to find an opponent ranked high above you because of the way the menus are set up.

Because the developers of Battle Fury want to make some money they have added 1 advertisement at the top of screen, it is a little annoying but easily avoidable. They have also added a premium currency, the primary function of which is to restore energy to your characters and to purchase items to make your characters stronger. You can also find these items while questing but they seem very rare, I only found 2 in the first 24 levels of the game (which means about 100 missions). The ones I found don’t do very much and management of them is quite difficult but I’m guessing as you progress to the later levels of the game that they become more effective and necessary especially among the best pvpers.

Battle Fury is a free game. Therefore you get a free quality game, if you want some turn based action, this is probably the best free one on the Android market (I’ve heard of some premium ones but I haven’t tried them yet). There are a lot of different characters, quite a few different skills, and a wide array of enemies. The game lacks map choice and some of the functions could be smoother but it is still a good way to waste your time at work.

Battle Fury’s Rating: 71/100

2 last minute updates to the post, Battle Fury is available on the Iphone market (for a price I believe) and the real big news, Steve Jobs is no longer CEO of Apple. Yesterday he resigned from the position, he will however be taking the job of chairman of the board of directors for the company.

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