About Tapping Sim Heroes:
The game received many much needed QoL changes: You finally have some basic controls of your army, and no longer need to click once a time to boost your generals loyalties, and the annual martial arts competition from previous iterations makes a return, etc. It’s still a far cry from 7, but if you can find the game on sale or love the series, get it for nostalgia’s sake. Original review below for reference. Sadly the game is unplayable in its current state.
- Rigged AI: AI knows the army size in your city and you get ganged by multiple sides at once (and no, sweeping your city for spies makes no difference). Foreign lords opinions (友好度) mean nothing because they still attack you when it’s 80+. Some also extort you for money and attack less than 15min into a new campaign if you start with a weak side. It doesn’t matter which scenario you choose. The AI disregard history and fight among themselves, in the Anti Dong Zhuo Alliance, for example.
- Mechanics: You need to micro-manage each general in battles to be effective, but the game makes it very difficult to do so. In battle, your army starts charging right away, ruining your formation. Also, you can pretty much cheese the game by just running around on a fast horse and spam skills. Liu Bei also has a skill that auto captures every enemy general around him. Talk about being lazy… To level up your soldiers, you must use food/provisions. The required amount reaches astronomical numbers later on. lvl 9 to 10: 55k. Imagine reaching max lvl of 25? It’s almost a mobile cash grab system. You can spend an entire season searching for generals and not able to find anyone (this is in the 2 earliest scenarios, even with the personal skill that makes finding generals easier). If you have only 1 city, you HAVE TO leave someone behind. It’s game over if you lose your last city, even if you escape from battle.
- Layout: The menu layout does not make sense. If I hit “Recruit”, I’m not able to see my captives: The proper option is under the main menu tab which you cannot see unless you zoom out of your city. The option to change your army type is hidden among a convoluted menu tree. There is also no way to rotate the world map, making it awkward to travel to some spots.
