If you get bored of taking on the lengthy campaign mode, there’s a quick battle option as well as local multiplayer, including single card download play. With archers, bears, druids, deer and more, there’s no shortage of unique units available and finding the right balance to suit your playstyle is as much a puzzle as anything you’ll encounter on the battlefield. Winning battles nets you experience points that naturally improve your statistics as well as the strength of your units, making clever man-management the order of the day as you have to select and train your army from the available fighters. The puzzle mechanics are undoubtedly excellent, but the RPG side of things is no slouch either.
As with all great RPGs, there's a lot of tactical thinking required to find the perfect balance between attack and defence, asking you to do much more than match three and sit back. There’s always something different thrown into the mix, and it’s done so well you rarely feel overwhelmed, though there is a range of tutorials available to brush up on the game’s finer points. Usually you win by depleting your enemy’s HP, but one mission sees you attacking two moving targets trying to saw down a sacred tree, and another asks you to take down a boss whilst avoiding a hostage. Once you’ve got your head around the puzzle mechanics, the game starts to have some fun with them. There are more depths than the scope of this review can ably explain, with combos, link attacks, super walls and more all creating a satisfying puzzle platter. Naturally each unit has its own strengths and special abilities, making this far more than your standard gem-matching game. Each puzzle is a battle against enemy forces, with theirs on the top screen and yours below: by sliding units in and out of place, you can form attacks with vertical trios and defensive walls with horizontal lines. Reminiscent of classic DS puzzler Meteos, Clash of Heroes offers a stylus-sliding take on the match-three genre. Mixing the heavy plot and masses of dialogue from an RPG with the instant gratification of a puzzle game might seem an odd choice, but Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes pulls it off with aplomb.
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