Morta’s Blade

I was super excited when I stumbled upon this in the App Store. Paid for the download and started playing it but on an iPhone SE 2022 it’s just too small to enjoy. Found out I could download an older version on my iPad Pro, but upon start, it appears it’s not optimized for iPad as there’s no option to move forward or look around or do anything. Sucks, looks like fun, but I don’t wanna play it on a tiny screen.

This game is just ok. I say that before saying it’s fun, because the flaws overshadow the fun. First, there’s no map. What gives? It would be nice to have one to help backtrack and fine new locations not already visited. Second, I didn’t realize that all pieces of armor end up at 0 defense until I found a market and wanted to compare their armor for sale with what I have, but the piece of Amber armor I got with the Founder’s Pack in-app-purchase for $8 ended up being useless junk after a few battles. Is that to try to force players to spend more money on more founder’s packs? At least have the blacksmith offer to repair armor, because that’s some BS. I wouldn’t have spent the money if I knew that would happen. Third, side quests are meh at best: get some flowers, find the guy by finding notes…but they’re made worse by not having the quest log update when notes are found or with a log of dialogue with NPCs. It’s frustrating when returning to the game after having to turn it off and do real world things. Fourth, the quest log sucks. It doesn’t update, as mentioned earlier. It adds a quest when it’s activated, but I haven’t seen it update when progress is made such as finding a series of notes that hint where a guy can be found. How about adding an auto-update after steps are accomplished? Fifth, Save spots are few and far between. This has caused quests to be lost, victories and treasures to be lost, and I don’t remember what I have to go back and do again after dying. It blows. How about adding a save feature to the pause or inventory screen? It would save a lot of headaches for players. Sixth, what’s up with no resting spots? I mean, there’s no option to rest and restore health at campsites where games are saved; there are no inns in towns where a player can pay to spend the night…it forces the player to have to buy food items or potions to replenish health…it blows. Seventh, what gives with not putting the item description on items at the market? I don’t want to buy anything if I don’t know what it does. Who would? It’s dumb. Especially when treasures give so little money. It’s ridiculous. Either make rewards pay out more, or provide more treasures and food items in the wild to be found. And add item descriptions to items that vendors sell. Eighth, can we have teleporting portals or something to fast travel between places that have already been visited and activated? This slow travel on foot or horse may have worked for Morrowind, but not for this game. Otherwise, I like the cell-shades graphics. I gave the review 3 stars, though, it’s a toss up between 2 and 3, if being honest.