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\"solstice<\/a>Alright, I\u2019m pretty sure you\u2019ve all figured out from my previous article<\/a> that I am a die hard League of Legends player and take the game very seriously (not that DOTA2 garbage. Ick no, bury that under 12 layers of steel at the bottom of the ocean please).<\/p>\n

That being said, I am indeed a fan of the MOBA genre<\/a> in general and to my glorious surprise, there is a decent MOBA for the iPad<\/a> (and iPhone<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Solstice Arena<\/a> brands itself as the worlds first \u201cSPEED MOBA\u201d, a game that goes by much quicker than desktop games in the genre.<\/p>\n

Which is quite true. It\u2019s smaller maps and faster exchanges expedite the game play quite a bit. The fact that players are mobile may help too, as I\u2019m seeing way too many people dive for objectives and get their faces wrecked.<\/p>\n

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Watch out, it\u2019s Generic Paladin and his friends Basic Archetype Rogue and Bland Warrior!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So the game plays fairly well for being a mobile game, and I\u2019m actually impressed with how it functions. While the shop may try to have you use the cookie-cutter build for each of the champions, you are free to build whatever items you choose and use them to destroy your enemies. So the game starts off with you playing AI opponents to learn the game, sure that\u2019s fine. But HOLY COW are they dumb. I cringe every time my group lunges in to combat and focuses the enemy team\u2019s tankiest character, like they\u2019re covered in $20 bills, like that Geico motorcycle commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game plays very similar to most MOBAs. You run out, kill things, and get killed, earn money and buy items. What\u2019s different from this and say League, is that the item upgrade paths are more branching. Instead of combining items into more powerful ones, you have a single item that you pay to upgrade in a multitude of paths, which is actually pretty sweet.<\/p>\n

\"When
When naming fantasy items after a person in the lore, make sure their name is sounds fantasy-like. Not \u201cRoland\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve gotten up to about level 8 \u2013 probably going to hit 9 soon \u2013 and I gotta say I\u2019m really hooked. It has solid gameplay and bot-play for the less hardcore gamers. With a ton of character customization with the item upgrade paths, it satisfies my strategy cravings quite well. With a solid GUI and easy-to-use buttons, I felt that everything was very user-intuitive. Which as of late, the ability to make a good user interface is so rare it should be labeled as a \u201csuper power\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of my few issues with this one is the generic hero design. There is no personality, and they seem flat and so very uninspired. I half expected them to start shouting lines like \u201cI am a warrior.\u201d and \u201cI am a mage!\u201d as they fought. However that aside the game has its teeth sunk in pretty good on me, and I\u2019m sure ill be hitting max level sometime in the next week or so.<\/p>\n

So is this a mobile League of Legends? No. Hardly. Maybe\u2026 I mean it\u2019s as close as you are going to get. Please realize that you don\u2019t WANT a whole League mobile. Trust me. Making players put 45 minutes into a mobile game would be a disaster. Chat logs would be filled with \u201cAFK, Lunch breaks over\u201d and \u201cSorry guys I have class :[\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Protecting
Protecting your towers is your main priority. After that it\u2019s pummeling everything. A lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graphics:\u00a0\"Rating-Bar4\"<\/h2>\n

Simply awesome. While nothing staggering or jaw dropping, it\u2019s still much more than what I expected to see on an iPad. I can\u2019t imagine things could have been improved that much on this platform. \u00a0Things are kept clean and unobtrusive, and everything flows really well.<\/p>\n

Gameplay:\"Rating-Bar4\"<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s a \u201cspeed MOBA\u201d so things are a bit different. Capturing stat buffs and the center gold chest are really fun additions to the genre. While I really think the item shop may need expansion, the game is fairly solid. My only gripe is the lack of choices of items in the same category. If I want a fully tanky helmet, there\u2019s\u2026 one. Though the same can be said about League of Legends\u2019 item shop as well.<\/p>\n

Audio:\"Rating-Bar3\"<\/h2>\n

Decent job, and it fits the theme, but I wish characters had a little more personality to them. I want to find a character I mesh with, and sometimes that\u2019s in personality. Defining a characters personality helps you define what it\u2019s skillset should be and in turn makes that process more fluid.<\/p>\n

Innovation:\"Rating-Bar4\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

Sure MOBA titles are fairly abundant these days. Even DC Comics wanted a slice of that pie with their new game Infinite Crisis. Which by the way, their version of the joker is ridiculous<\/a>. However Solstice does a fantastic job standing out in the mix with its \u201cspeed\u201d variation on gameplay. While this does for some reason truly cause players to dive towers and get killed without thinking, I attribute that to younger players.<\/p>\n

Overall:\"Rating-Bar4\"<\/h2>\n

So close. I had a real problem denying this game a 5. I really quite enjoyed all of its quirky combat and fun antics. While I sort of felt that some of the characters are a little\u2026. bland, and that certain item combinations should be balanced a little more, It\u2019s still a fantastic game. If you have an iPad, please do yourself a favor and give this one a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, I\u2019m pretty sure you\u2019ve all figured out from my previous article that I am a die hard League of Legends player and take the game very seriously (not that DOTA2 garbage. Ick no, bury that under 12 layers of steel at the bottom of the ocean please). That being said, I am indeed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":21672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"class_list":["post-21669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app-review"],"yoast_head":"\nLeague of Legends In My Backpack? Yes, Please!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"League of Legends In My Backpack? 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