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The primary two stats you are going to care about is the health of your tanks in the front, and the overall DPS your team does.
Each character has their own stats, race, gender, alignment, etc.
Here is where the D&D property really lends itself to this type of game, because there is this element of number rolling and stats behind the scenes.
#Idle champions of the forgotten realms full screen upgrade#
The more gold you have, the more levels you can buy your characters to upgrade them. The higher level you are on, the more gold enemy kills earn you. That is the primary gameplay / progression loop. Even as I slapped the chip clip on my controller, I was kind of judging myself, but at the same time? I wanted some more gold so I could upgrade my characters.
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I won’t lie – I used a chip clip early on to hold the button down while I was at one point grinding out the highest level I could manage while doing some stuff on my PC for twenty minutes. Thankfully on the PS4, it’s just a matter of holding down the circle button. So you can play the game without ever doing the ‘clicking’, but that element is very assistive in that it adds a small amount of damage to the creature in the front as well as stunning them for a split second, keeping them from advancing on your troops to the left as quickly. Different characters have different types of attacks, such as targeting the enemy in the back instead of the front, or hitting multiple targets at once, things like that. Each character has a base attack that does a set amount of damage and has a cooldown before the next swing. For those unfamiliar with the genre, essentially you start with a single character (Bruenor by default) who stands on the left side of the screen and attacks the creatures flooding in from the right side. So while the presentation is a bit simple and at times repetitive, the same could be initially said of the gameplay itself. The music is solid enough, though it and the sound effects are highly repetitive and I would definitely like to see more music variety added to the mix as what is there has a nice heroic swell to it, but after an hour or ten, offers little in the way of variety. Now visually, the style is pretty simple, with 2D characters that have a very cartoon aesthetic, both simple and colorful, yet completely appropriate for the title. What surprised me was how much I enjoyed the strategy and progression loop that the game provides as well. However, if Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms was just some familiar names and cartoonish visual representations, it would have only managed to hold my interest for a few minutes or maybe hours at best. As someone who has been reading the books, playing the video games and running the tabletop campaigns for a couple of decades or so now, this sense of familiarity definitely tickled a little pocket of nostalgia in the back of my mind that the more generic clicker games would probably never have touched. This would be a theme, as other recognizable characters would be sprinkled in via both the default lineup and also through events that offer unlockable characters. Right off of the bat, Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms made a good first impression on me because of the first character it introduced, Bruenor Battlehammer, whom I was quite familiar with due to many of the older Drizzt novels I had read back in high school and college. That was when she suggested I give Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms a shot. It did not help that the combat was sort of taking care of itself while I was doing other things on my PC. Then one day, my oldest (while poking at some idle game on her phone) strolled into my den while I was playing an older JRPG and she noticed that I was walking around in circles, grinding out gold and experience and asked me what made my JRPG any different than her clicker game.
The idea of tapping a screen repeatedly while almost nothing changed seemed silly to me. My wife plays some cookie one, my son and oldest daughter played a few different ones.
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So I will admit that when I first heard about free to play idle / clicker games for mobile (and later PC, and later-later console), I kind of rolled my eyes. Turns out, her suggestion was a good one as I have found myself going back to this one time and again and find its use of the D&D property and loot / grind cycle to be a rewarding one. I have never really had much interest in idle / clicker games, but my oldest daughter likes them and suggested a couple of months back that I give Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms a try, since I am a big fan of Dungeons & Dragons.