At first, I hated it. There were endless cut scenes before I actually got to play – and they felt endless even though I was skipping them. I skipped one and another came along. It was getting silly when I finally broke through into the actual game… where things were even worse. The controls felt awful – with the virtual d-pad sending me flying randomly about the screen. Having to line myself up to talk to people was impossible. I didn’t know where to find out what I was doing or how to do it. And it wouldn’t let me leave the village to go and kill things before I’d done a quest I didn’t know anything about.

Awful, awful, awful game.

It did, however, grow on me. I took the speed down a bit, which helped me learn the controls. I found out what I was meant to be doing. I got used to the menus. I managed to leave the village and do some “kill X of Y” and “collect X of Y from the dead bodies of Z” quests. It all came together and I ended up thoroughly enjoying the game until the Lite version ended.

There’s only one thing stopping me from buying the full game, really – will I actually play an RPG on the iPhone? Won’t I just start up my quick-fire games instead and leave it to rot? I have to decide quickly – the game’s on sale at half price right now and I think it’s going back up to full price any time now.