Dragems - My quick review

My friend recently told to check out 'Puzzles & Dragon', a mobile app game. Hence I did a search on my iPhone back could not find anything. Then, I googled the internet, it is already in iTunes. It did not open up to other countries expect Japan Store and U.S. Store. Seriously, I do not know why are they restricting it. There is such a huge potential revenue channel from the global audiences.

Puzzle and Dragon


Then I noticed another game in iTunes with a similar game play, Dragems.


So if you could not wait, just try Dragems.

The gameplay is simple. There is a tutorial to guide you when you first played. Form your deck of pets and challenge the quests. You will get gold and pets when you clear the quest but if you failed, you lose all the challenge spoils. Like typical gem games, form 3 or more gems of the same color in an approved line, you would break the gems. Broken gems correspond to your pet element will gain attack points and attack your enemies. Watch the videos for a better gameplay.

I got hooked playing this game. This game allow you to train and evolve your pets. You need to train your pet to max level before you could evolve it. To evolve your pet, you need to get the correct materials from your quests. Leveling the pet is rather expensive. These made the game challenging too.

You need to set a leader for your deck. The leader pet will be able to use its leader skill if the pet has any. The skills has cooldown (CD) counters. Hence you will need to do some planning to decrease the CD before going to the boss stage. 

You will be given 5 gems to roll a rare pet, included in the tutorial. Good luck on a 6 Star pet! I played for 3 days. Here's what I am standing currently.



Summary
  • It is fun trying to think how to drag the gems to stitch 5 gems together, in a turn, for an all attack. Forming combo is the other fun part, but it takes to much brain cells!
  • It is addictive to evolve your pet; you get a stronger pet! But it is hard to evolve high level star pets.
  • It is fun to plan how you would want to attack and to decrease the CD of your leader skill. I prepared the leader skill for a ultimate finish on bosses. 30000 damage to all! 20 CD though.
  • Each quest have a few stages. If you clear the quest final boss for the first time, you are awarded a gem! Clear 5 quest, go for another roll and pray hard! One gem cost you US$0.99.

It could be better with some improvement:
  • It would be fun to be able to play with friends. Even a versus mode would be amazing, or a duel joint attack of mightier bosses!
  • It is rather solo gameplay for now. Not much social features like send a gift or request a material.
  • Better graphics and animations or even cut scenes for the leader skills would be juicy.
  • Trading of cards. But I think it is good that you cannot trade, else there will be alot of dummy accounts! I would say a good-to-have than a must-have feature.

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