Infinity Blade

Infinity blade is a game developed by Chair entertainment and epic games. It was first published in near end of 2010 and the sequel, Infinity Blade 2, was released a year after that in apple app store. It is an action RPG game. It features one on one battle with various enemies and fight your way to different bosses.

In this game, the player will ascend to the castle of God King, the arch enemy of the player. On his way towards him, the player needs to defeat monsters and survive long enough to face God King. The player is given a choice of route to take at some points but the ultimate end of the route is the same. While battling the enemies, player can dodge, block or parry enemy’s attacks. You have to defend against the last attack of the enemy’s attack chain in order to get a chance to counter-attack the monster. The player can dodge and block by touching buttons displayed on the screen. Player can swipe across the screen to give a slash to the enemy. Parrying is done when the player slash in the opposite direction of the enemy’s attack. Player is also equipped by 2 special powers, super attack and magic. The super attack allows the player to attack the enemy regardless of their state is. The magic depends on the equipment the player wears. It may have healing effect or elemental magic attacks. The main aim is to kill the God King. Once the player died, he/she will repeat from the starting point as the descendant of the previous character and the aim slightly changes to avenge previous generation. The story is made so that it can be repeated. These iterations is called Rebirth.

The monster’s level is matched to the player’s level to maintain the difficulty. The bosses have a higher starting level and it will increase if the player managed to defeat them. For example, God King is level 100 in first rebirth. If the player defeats him, his level will increase by 50 to 150 for the next rebirths.  After the player defeat God King, he/she has the option to continue to the next rebirth or repeat from rebirth 1 and lose all gold and equipments but retain the level. This way, the character level is unlimited.

The sequel, Infinity Blade 2, continues the storyline from Infinity Blade. The player gains the ultimate weapon called ‘The Infinity Blade’ used by God King. Because of that reason, all Deathless, the immortal race which God King is in, targeted him. He wants someone to take the blade off his hands and live a normal life. He decided that the Worker of Secrets, a prisoner of the Deathless, is the suitable person since he hates Deathless. He finds his way to the Vault of Tears, the place Worker of Secrets is held prisoner. In this sequel, the game play is basically the same except that the player has the more variation of weapons to choose. The light weapon category gives the player the ability to dodge left and right, block, and parry (same as Infinity Blade). The dual weapon category removes the block ability since the player is not using shield. The block is replaced by dodging downward. Other abilities are the same as light weapon category. Heavy weapon category removes the dodging action. It is replaced by 3 direction blocking. The rest of the abilities is the same as light weapon category.