As a fan of the No Heroes Allowed! franchise in general, this game leaves a lot to be desired.
If you want to play this game in English, go for the PS Vita version. It's far more polished, especially with regards to translation, and if you want to pay away the F2P-P2W elements, it's got that option, wherein you have a serviceable game. If you want to play this game in Chinese, this version suffices, but it's...still iffy. I'll be reviewing the English version.
The PS Vita release, I personally find very enjoyable. The gameplay consists of a very fun sliding puzzle centred around getting massive combos, with an enjoyable premise in helping a classic evil overlord take over the world. With hero and monster encyclopaedias to fill and an evolution feature, it can get very addictive, very fast.
Hard to screw up, right? Well, the Steam release is suffering from that "bad Unity port" syndrome you see a lot from games around this time.
For starters, the translation kind of sucks. There's a lot of basic grammatical errors, even on the Steam page itself. There's a lot of missed plurals, poor spacing, and more; it was clearly an afterthought. Coming out years after the perfectly good PS Vita translation, I must ask: Why? It seems to partly be using the PS Vita script, as it still refers to the G icon, despite the microtransactions no longer being prevalent. I'm glad there's a Chinese translation, as I am currently learning Mandarin, but like, I'm definitely a special kind of customer here, right?
Outside of this, the game is very buggy. Crashes, occasionally strange tile slides, and so on, riddle this game. The Training mode is capable of crashing as soon as the second "lesson", and the demonstrations hardly work. Worse still, Survival Mode, a Japan-exclusive feature on the Vita, has had a "coming soon" slapped onto it for the past few years, and there is no sign of it actually arriving, considering the studio appears dead; I was hoping to get to play that! I find it hard to believe that this release was even tested.
This game is clearly very rushed, and there's little chance of it getting better. If you have a PS Vita, get that version. It is hard to express just how much better that release is, it's kept me busy for a very long time.
