If you are a Sony fan or a portable gamer who either owned a PSP or a Vita, you may have heard of the infamous and underrated No Heroes Allowed series. These are very portable-centric titles that scratch that nostalgia itch from games in the '80s and '90s. They have pixelated graphics with monsters, heroes, dungeons, loot and all that you would expect if you played something like the early Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest series.
This series, however, reverses the roles from the games of that bygone '80s and '90s era. Instead of a hero, you control a villain, or actually an overseer and protector of a dark lord, Badman, while fighting enemy heroes trying to come in and put a stop to his plans. The latest game in the series, straight from Playstation Vita, just made it to mobile. It is called No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either! [Free].
As you may have guessed from the game?s title, it has puzzle elements in place. These are the match three variety. However, it actually mixes a few genres together seamlessly as there is some fusion involved of RPG, customization/troop management and match three.
The main gameplay revolves around a match three style grid where you have to line up blocks of monsters in order to have them unleashed on the hero. You have to use a pickaxe to destroy these blocks of stone and monsters so that succeeding blocks can come down from the top and match blocks of monsters this way. As you match blocks of monsters successfully, you will see your combos ...