While the combat isn’t particular deep, it is extremely satisfying, thanks to extensive player progression and items. Instead, it’s about finding patterns, swiping when there’s an opening, or even matching timing and slash directions to successfully parry an attack. If your first inclination is the swipe wildly on the screen, don’t bother, as enemies will simply block your attacks. Slashing with your weapon is done with the swipe of a finger, the direction of which will result in a different angle of attack. You’ll tap the sides of the game screen to dodge left or right, or hold an on-screen shield icon to block incoming attacks. As you move through the environment, you’ll invariably be met with enemy resistance, and that’s when the real meat of Infinity Blade rears its head - the combat.īattle can easily be described as a more freeform version of Nintendo’s Punch-Out!!. After a few plays, where you’ll go and your movement choices become second nature. While much of the loot (in the form of sacks of coins or item-carrying treasure chests) is mostly randomized throughout each bloodline, the movement through the citadel isn’t really. You can look around freely, finding out-of-sight loot, but that’s as much freedom as you’re given. Points appear on the screen indicate where you can move, and simply tapping the screen will take you in that direction. Unlike the Epic Citadel demo, movement throughout the God-King’s fortress is extremely limited. This second time you will fail, as you will the third, fourth… you get the idea. At this point, the game will fast forward some 20 years ahead, where you’ll begin the next “Bloodline” as the son of the fallen warrior, determined to exact retribution for your father’s death. Your first fight with the God-King will end in your execution - you simply aren’t equipped to conquer the formidable monarch. Okay, make that “knights,” plural - Infinity Blade’s “story” (if you could call it that) unfolds across the span of hundreds of years, with players working through “Bloodlines.” As the game begins, you’ll step into the armor of a low level fighter, working your way from the gates of the castle to the throne room, besting guards - warriors, assassins, massive trolls - in the process. Infinity Blade puts players in the role of an unnamed knight determined with besting the ominous and powerful God-King, a mysterious emperor that evidently sits on a throne all day waiting for warriors to challenge his dominion.
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