Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where heroes might be gone, but are never forgotten. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the here and now. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect on their position in the overall tapestry, or simply to take a deeper dive than our reviews typically allow. I try to choose a balanced plate of RPGs from week to week in order to represent the diverse nature of the genre, but if you feel like I'm missing anything important, please let me know. You can do that by commenting below the article, posting in the Official RPG Reload Club thread in the forums, or by tweeting me at @RPGReload. Your suggestion might not appear soon, but it will be added to the master list.
As regular readers know, I plan the schedule for the RPG Reload well in advance. It's one of the only ways it's possible for me to actually get all of these games done on time. To be honest, it's a bit of a gamble thanks to the way iOS and the App Store work. I've had to reschedule Reloads on numerous occasions, and we even had one unlucky case where the featured game was pulled literally in the one day span between my turning in the finished article and it being posted. There are lots of games I would have loved to have done a Reload on, had they remained available. Around one month ago, I was again put in the position of having to choose between covering a pulled game or doing a last-mi...