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Fighting Fantasy Legends – Roleplaying Game Review
Fighting Fantasy Legends is a Roleplaying/Card game from Nomad Games Ltd., first launched in 14th March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 12+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fighting Fantasy Legends Stand Out
"The game manages to get over some of the hurdles of the game books quite neatly. So if this is your first trip into the classic universe, you'll probably have a damn good time." – PocketGamer – 8/10
"Fighting Fantasy Legends is a near-perfect balance of a gamebook and role-playing game." – 148apps – 4.5/5
"This is a quality adventure that brings out the best of some genuinely classic adventures." – TouchArcade – 4.5/5
Create your own adventures in a dangerous land of monsters, treasures and traps. From renowned authors Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone (co-founders of Games Workshop) and Nomad Games, Fighting Fantasy Legends is a role-playing card game set in the world of Fighting Fantasy.
Travel across the land of Allansia with just a sword and some gold to your name and rise up to Legendary status. Play through the stories of three iconic gamebooks – City of Thieves, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Citadel of Chaos.
Each location has a shuffled deck of cards which includes fiendish creatures, powerful objects and dramatic events. You must build up your collection of powerful treasures and level-up your dice to have any chance of surviving the dangerous streets of Port Blacksand, the murky depths of Firetop Mountain or the looming shadows of The Citadel.
The world needs a Hero… you will give them a Legend.
• Based on the multi-million selling series of Fighting Fantasy Books.
• A card-based role-playing game with Roguelike elements.
• Thousands of choices ensure that no two games are ever the same.
• Uses the classic Skill/Stamina/Luck attributes.
• Take on powerful adversaries, such as Balthus Dire, Zagor the Warlock and Zanbar Bone.
• Kill monsters and add them to your Creature Codex.
• Travel across the region of Northern Allansia.
• Introducing a dice combat system unique to this game, where the player can upgrade their dice as they level-up.
• Meet iconic characters, such as Nicodemus the Wizard, Gareth Yaztromo and O'Seamus the Leprechaun.
• Earn Titles based on your deeds.
• Three difficulty levels.
• Permadeath mode – not for the faint hearted.
• Play exciting dice games, such as Runestones, Knifey Knifey and Dwarf Dice.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fighting Fantasy Legends is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th March 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Fighting Fantasy Legends is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Fighting Fantasy Legends on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Stuck eternally on update 4/6 ("downloading better sound effects and graphics"). Freezes every time. Do not buy until fixed. Waste of several hours just trying to get it to work.
Its an odd one. Theres a built in problem with the game where when you die, you take injuries which cost money to heal but also make it easier to die. Two hints and then the game is waaay more fun. First, dont worry about hit points, max out your luck and attack. Second, cheat a little. Go gamble with the strong man in the thiefs city, you can double your gold there and if you lose, immediately quit the game and manually shut it down, then replay until you double your gold. Once youre past that, and have a little gold to spare, the game dynamic becomes super fun. Its still hard, just not impossibly so! And the writing of the game and story is a lot of fun.
If you treat this game like a board game, it does what it says regardless of previous comments that say its hard. We were more interested in the portion stating you can create your own game, very incorrect statement. This game allows you to choose your own path. Ill be requesting a refund once we get our receipt.
So we did the first set of quests and now there is nothing to do, no new cities or quests. Waste of money dont buy.
You constantly meet enemies to fight, yet pretty much have no way of healing. Die. Start again…. But with no health. Die again. Repeat. See how lame that sounds? Thats the summary of the game. Ill be deleting it now and not buying any more of their games. Tip to developers. Increase the number of opportunities to re-heal or pick up potions to store to use later to heal…. So you can actually last in the game.
Seriously. We used to play original DND way back in the 80s. This game is harder than anything Ive played. Hard enough to make it just not fun. Failing every single luck and skill check gets very old -really- fast. Everything you do hurts you. Every roll you fail costs a severe price. Curses. Injuries. No ways to remove them. They dont wear off apparently. Just constant dice rolling over and over and over and failing over and over and over. Save your time and play something else. Unless this game gets some balancing done to it Im gonna refund it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 97.46 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nomad Games Ltd.
Last updated: 14th March 2018 | Genre: Roleplaying, Card | Developer: Nomad Games Ltd.