On the one hand, Dragon Lapis [Free / $4.99] is a bog-standard Kemco RPG release, the sort they used to boot out the door on a near-monthly basis. The only novel thing here is that the game is played in the portrait orientation rather than landscape, a change that makes it resemble Square Enix's iOS Dragon Quest games in what I'm sure is a total coincidence. On the other hand, Kemco hasn't been booting these kinds of games out the door on mobile quite as often as they used to. No one really is, if we're being honest. If nothing else, that makes Dragon Lapis slightly more welcome than it might have been had it dropped in the middle of Kemco's more prolific past.

This one comes to us by way of EXE-Create, seemingly the only developer left from Kemco's hay days that still has any desire to create games like these. The plot is trope-heavy, both in terms of general JRPG tropes and EXE-Create's usual efforts. In ancient times, two dragons battled each other in a terrible conflict that nearly tore the world apart. The two were sealed by a now-legendary hero, and the world went on in peace. Recent events have unsealed the dragons, however, and it's up the descendants of that legendary hero to either break the world or save it. You'll be playing the latter role, of course. As it turns out, one of the dragons was hiding in the humble hamlet the main character was defending, and when the other dragon comes knocking she is forced to reveal herself. For one of the most powerful beings...