As far as endless arcade type games go, the first Dragon Hills [$2.99] was a fun and chaotic beast. Featuring a princess in a tower waiting for her prince to rescue her, a prince finds all the gold on a lower floor and just books it. The princess, apparently being great friends with the dragon that ?imprisoned? her (I assume as a favor so she could get a man), sets off after this jerk of a prince with blazing fury in her eyes, embodying old sayings about hell?s fury and scorned women. All while riding said dragon, who gets around by burrowing, jumping, and sliding through the hills. Rebel Twins have now returned with a sequel, and it?s more varied, more polished, and much stranger than ever. Welcome back to the hills. It?s Dragon Hills 2 [$2.99].
My thinking is that the developers just wanted a good excuse for a crazy variety of locations and enemies. The first game was no slouch in that department, bringing you through rolling green hills, pirate themed islands, Arabian deserts, and snowy mountains, pitting you against knights, rock monsters, and outright lightning calling demi-gods apparently. This time, the princess is in a modern-day city scape afflicted with a zombie apocalypse. Instead of a revenge fueled onslaught, you?re after a McGuffin that will allow you to time travel and stop the zombie apocalypse. And for some reason, she has a dragon mech, because she just does, and instead of wielding a sword at all times, you grab gun weapon pick-ups on the battlefield a...