The Elder Scrolls: Blades

Bethesda Softworks LLC

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About this game

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim, comes The Elder Scrolls: Blades – a classic dungeon crawler reimagined.

The Blades, the Empire’s top agents, are forced into exile. On the run, you return to your hometown to find it destroyed.



KEY FEATURES:

QUEST and Experience stunning dungeon adventures.

CREATE and customize your city, restoring it to greatness.

CONQUER your friends and rivals in epic one-on-one Arena battles.

CREATE any character you want and discover unique weapons, armor, and abilities.

MASTER the never-ending Abyss with a cutting-edge combat system.

Ratings and reviews

Combat is too involved for a phone, especially as the game seems to only register one touch at a time. I can kind of get the sword swinging left to right, but with no control. Then the sword (I think) needs to be released before I hit the shield, which is also hard to hit quickly. Just emulating Skyrim's left & right actions is what I would have hoped for.

One of the worst combat systems I've ever seen, you will be spamming health potions unless you become nearly flawless at executing commands with the clunky touch screen controls. I guess the difficulty is a way push micro transactions onto you, which is very off putting even for a mobile game. The story is decent and the level design is even worse than the caves in Oblivion. There isn't as much lore tie-in to the mainline series as I would hope. Overall frustrating.

This is a decent game, but there's one major flaw with it. The game includes secret areas that are locked forever once you leave. Meaning you can't replay past missions or explore previous areas in order to find all the secrets! I don't care about grinding for materials so much given the jobs board and whatnot, so each level could have finite resources for all I care. What I do care about that 100% completion! If I missed a secret area, I want to be able to return when I have time and find it.

What's new

Now that Heart's Day has come and gone, the game icon has been reverted to the classic one.