Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we may not have the fancy licenses, but know that a giant robot is a giant robot. 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 the classics, reflect on their place in the overall App Store library, or just to take a deeper dive than our reviews typically allow for. As the wielder of Falchion, I try to choose a balanced plate of RPGs from week to week in order to accurately reflect the diversity of the genre. If you think I'm missing something important, however, please let me know. You can do that by commenting below, posting in the Official RPG Reload Club thread in the forums, or by tweeting me at @RPGReload. The schedule is made quite far in advance, so you may not see your suggestion soon, but it will be added to the master list.
In nearly every case, the RPG Reload covers games I've played before. Hence the whole 'reload' bit. Every once in a while, however, a suggestion leads to me to something I haven't played before. If I'm lucky, I get to play an excellent game that I somehow missed before. If not, well, it's all a learning experience, right" Such was the case with this week's entry, the strategy RPG The War of Eustrath [$2.99 / $4.99 (HD)]. Even though I've been a huge fan of Fire Emblem for ages, it was rare for me to seek out games in the genre that fell outside that series until perhaps a few ...