Apps: Blood Brothers by Mobage

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Blood Brothers is my favorite app at the moment, no competition. Blue started playing it a few months ago and he would always bug me about how I needed to download it. I was hooked as soon as I did and I wish I would have started earlier because he's level 100-something and I'm at about 70. This game absolutely loves to crash my phone, though, and as much as that annoys me, I still open it right back up. It's always my first choice when I have time to spare. Some days, especially during the events, we'll sit around and play for hours. Blue even admitted to playing on his hour+ drive home from work, which I was not happy about. Enjoyability: 5/5 Blood Brothers is a lot of fun. You start out by choosing your main character, each with his or her own unique attack, and then you collect more "familiars" as you travel through the different lands. The more you play, the more items you get to level up your monsters' stats and special attack. Simple concept. This game also holds weekly events that you can participate in to earn even more items and money. I think the events keep the game interesting. I'd go a few days without playing and then as soon as a PVP or group battle started I'd get sucked back into it and play all day. Creativity: 4/5 When it comes to the concept of the game, I wouldn't consider it very creative. It does, however, have a few really cool features, including the ways your characters can level up and, of course, the weekly event arena. To level up, you can sacrifice the familiars you catch throughout the world to increase the chance of your character using its special attack and you can use crystals to power up their main skills. Another one of my favorites is when you have two of the same and can fuse them together to create a more powerful familiar. They are ranked "common" through "legendary" and depending on how many stars it has, you can make it more rare. With the events, some weeks they'll have "special dungeons" (always makes me laugh) and other times they'll have "raid bosses" where you can ask your allies to help you defeat it and the points are shared between you and your team. Beauty: 4.5/5 The designs are great. The characters look awesome, the lands are simple, and the music is fitting. There's not much animation in Blood Brothers which is probably a good thing because of how poorly it already runs on my ancient phone. I've also played it on blue's phone and my parents' tablet, though, and it ran very smoothly. The most animation the game offers is during some of the special attacks, which is usually where it lags for me, and some of the leveling up. I like the music, too, and as much as we play it, it doesn't get annoying. Overall: 4.5/5 Blood Brothers is awesome. It's easy to play, very addicting, and the events keep you coming back. I have put so many hours into this game and I know blue has spent many more, with his phone glued to his hand. It's my favorite game from the Android store right now and I am always on the lookout for new Mobage games. I just downloaded Cityland, I love games where you build up your own city or island from scratch. Download both of them for free and be sure to add blue and I in Blood Brothers.	Procced a spell. COME AT ME. Update 1/27/13: There are more screenshots available to be viewed here.	Oh man, Mobage really delivered with this game. It's kinda like pokemon meets yugioh in final fantasy land. You collect little monsters (called familiars), take them to battle, level them up, fuse them and evolve them. Even better is that it's MMO style, complete with an auction house and random pvp battles to put your familiars to the test against everyone else's. Like all good MMOs, it's even updated weekly. Each week, there is a new event. Be it teaming up with your allies to take down giant raid bosses, or pitting yourself against the world in a pvp championship, the events really make the Blood Brothers universe feel alive. I guess I'll find out for sure once I read what pink has to say, but once I got her to try this one, she seems to enjoy it almost as much as I do. Enjoyability: 5/5 I sometimes struggle to put this one down and get back to work. It's extremely addictive, and very enjoyable. You can play casually or hardcore, and feel rewarded either way, which is something many MMOs fail to achieve - things are either too easy or too hard. The events that take place weekly in this game help to maintain that ballance. There are rewards for reaching milestones (casual) and there are rewards for ranking highly at the end of the event (hardcore). Another very important thing about this freemium game is that it truly is freemium. Everything in the game is obtainable without spending a dime (although, I've personally spent a dollar). The items you can buy, the familiars you can buy, are all available for free, and the working auction house lets you trade for the premium content. Creativity: 3.5/5 This game isn't incredibly creative. It isn't an entirely new concept. Catch monsters, level them up, and fight them. Pretty simple. I gave it a 3.5 for it's seemless combination of different games across different genres and making it massivly multiplayer. Beauty: 4/5 The game is pretty. I love the art direction, the sound effects fit perfectly. There's even a few League of Legends refrences (one of the familiars is named Pendragon, for instance). Some of the spells do share animations; though, and that can be visually frustrating at times. Other than that, this game is visually pleasing. Overall: 4.5/5 This is my go-to app whenever I have time to play it - and sometimes even when I don't have time (at work, etc). It's provided me with hours of entertainment, and is likely to provide me with hours more (I'm only level 116 of 150.) Oh, and once I got her started on it, even pink enjoys this one - even if it causes her phone to crash on occassion. If you decide to download this one for Android, input my friend code to get some extra stuff when you start out: 7KRzKQ
TOTALS Enjoyability: 10/10 Creativity: 7.5/10 Beauty: 8.5/10 Overall: 9/10