Infinity-er Blade: Now More Pocket Voice Acting [Infinity Blade 2]

george-x

It's HEEEEEEERRREEE
Possibly the most anticipated iOS game of all time after the insane success of Infinity Blade, costs $6.99 on iTunes, $1 more than its predecessor. With all of Chairs free content packs, the price was well worth it, and hopefully they'll continue to add content to the sequel in the same manner. All signs point to yes, according to the below review:

"As a side-bar here, while nothing is confirmed, the UI elements and Chair's track record with the original hint at many updates to come including a cool social twist to battle. We'll be keeping our thumbs and fingers at the ready for some time."

Enthusiastic TouchArcade review here

Story:
The God King has been defeated, an unlikely hero has emerged and now you must discover the truth behind the secrets of the Infinity Blade. The continuing journey of young Siris unfolds as you delve deeper into the world of the Deathless tyrants and their legion of Titans. Can you unlock all the mysteries and successfully wield the power of the Infinity Blade in this timeless sword fighting adventure of champions and villains?

This universal app runs on:
iPhone 3GS / 4 / 4S / All iPads / iPod Touch 3 (16gb) / iPod Touch 4. Obviously optimized for iPhone 4S and iPad 2

Not convinced? TRAILER GO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4vTqozhDWo&hd=1

Super-Impressive-Screenies:

It's really easy to forget this is a freakin' phone and tablet game.

george-x

Also - it's taking FOREVER to download, so get cracking early if you need to walk around with your phone any time soon

Mahnmut

I never killed the God-king, much less addressed the extra content. Just wasn't very good at parrying.

george-x

I've lost count at how many times I've killed that bastard, I stopped playing because money started to come so slowly and the armor sets I needed to level were insanely expensive.

Alucard6986

if you're playing on ipad 1 and it's always crashing at the title screen, try rebooting your ipad a few times. It seems to work pretty well now, though the frame rate can be kind of iffy.

Edit: So is it still best to just buy all the weapons/equipment in order so you level up the weaker stuff before the stronger stuff?

Mahnmut

george-x wrote:

I've lost count at how many times I've killed that bastard, I stopped playing because money started to come so slowly and the armor sets I needed to level were insanely expensive.

I fired it up and was able to kill him just now because apparently there's a button to take your level 19 character back in time to level 2 enemies. So spoilers:

I guess there was a sci-fi twist? Are we going to find out what's up this time?

Alucard6986

The story does seem a bit more fleshed out this time. Plus everybody speaks english!

george-x

Holy shit - the first chapter of the game is awesome. Especially if you played/beat the first game. What a twist indeed:

They totally pulled a Metroid on us. And I should have expected it after looking at my characters stats and weapons, wondering how anything in the game would be a challenge at that point.

So great.

Alucard6986

george-x wrote:

Holy shit - the first chapter of the game is awesome. Especially if you played/beat the first game. What a twist indeed:

They totally pulled a Metroid on us. And I should have expected it after looking at my characters stats and weapons, wondering how anything in the game would be a challenge at that point.

So great.

there was no way they were going to let you keep the infinity blade from the start

minor incident

So, for someone who just tooled around a few hours on the first game and never beat the Godking, can anyone explain what the fuck the beginning is all about?

I assume the dude you're controlling is the descendent that finally killed the Godking? But who is the lady, and why does the Godking come back and take your sword? And why does the lady shoot you in the face?

Alucard6986

welp, maybe it as a bad idea taking the alternate path the second time through

level 75 stone sentinel ruined my shit

george-x

minor incident wrote:

So, for someone who just tooled around a few hours on the first game and never beat the Godking, can anyone explain what the fuck the beginning is all about?

I assume the dude you're controlling is the descendent that finally killed the Godking? But who is the lady, and why does the Godking come back and take your sword? And why does the lady shoot you in the face?

Yes, it's him. But I have no idea about the rest...I'm assuming this will be cleared up in the story..?

gjaustin

george-x wrote:

minor incident wrote:

So, for someone who just tooled around a few hours on the first game and never beat the Godking, can anyone explain what the fuck the beginning is all about?

I assume the dude you're controlling is the descendent that finally killed the Godking? But who is the lady, and why does the Godking come back and take your sword? And why does the lady shoot you in the face?

Yes, it's him. But I have no idea about the rest...I'm assuming this will be cleared up in the story..?

Spoilers from the "true ending" to Infinity Blade

There's a cloning facility in the dungeon. After you kill the the other Deathless, you kill your Ancestor who has been cloning the God King every time he's killed.

So you're not playing the descendant who finally killed the God King

You're playing the descendant who destroyed the cloning facility.

This was also fleshed out more in the book, but I'd just be repeating what I read on the Wiki

The descendant you play is apparently a reincarnated Deathless.

Drunk_caterpillar

Oh man, do I buy it now or wait for the inevitable $2.99 price drop?

george-x

Holy shit - I didn't know there was a true ending to the first game. How did you get it?

george-x

Also,

If the God King was killed by your descendants over and over, shouldn't there have been some mention of his resurrection every time you started a new bloodline (assuming you beat him)?

Alucard6986

george-x wrote:

Holy shit - I didn't know there was a true ending to the first game. How did you get it?

I'd assume it was part of all the free dlc that came out. I never got very far in those since everything had leveled so far ahead due to all the grinding I'd done before the patches.

Librarian's ghost

I'm having way more fun in this than the first.

Alucard6986

So can you parry the really big monsters who have no weapons or are they strictly dodge/block?

george-x

timspork's ghost wrote:

I'm having way more fun in this than the first.

WAY more fun. This is really great.

Alucard6986 wrote:

So can you parry the really big monsters who have no weapons or are they strictly dodge/block?

If they have no weapons I'm pretty sure you have to dodge/block. I tried parrying capoeira kicks and big slam punches to no avail.

Unrelated spoiler:

His realization that he is, in face, every bloodline from the first game due to his Deathless resurrections. Freakin' amazing.

george-x

I just found the

Lvl 100 Mech Golem guy

and got him down to 30% life. I'm in the mid 20's right now. This game is too addicting..

Dracil

So this is the way I'm thinking of stat allocation depending on what style you wanna specialize in.

Heavy = weapons already have high attack, so dump points in block since +attack makes little relative difference and can't dodge anyway
Light = fast weak attacks, and obviously no block, so dump points in attack
Sword and board = mixture

Adda

Save bug is stopping me from playing this for the time being

Dracil

Once I learned of the save bug I disabled iCloud. I've heard bad things about it from other stuff anyway so decided not to chance it. Had to start over since I deleted my data (wtf does Apple do this stupid crap with deleting stuff from both places like with syncing?)

Xaviar

george-x wrote:

Also,

If the God King was killed by your descendants over and over, shouldn't there have been some mention of his resurrection every time you started a new bloodline (assuming you beat him)?

Only part way through the book and the IB2, but:

It seems as though canon-wise, the God King was killed by you once. All the previous descendants, he killed. Further spoilers about the blade itself:

The Infinity Blade was designed to kill the Deathless finally -- stop their cycle of resurrection. But it wasn't ready yet. The God-King purposely set up the mythos that has the descendants constantly coming back to fight him, because killing them over and over was somehow fueling the Blade. Conveniently, the time the final descendant kills the God King was supposed to be the last death the Blade needed to activate. However, you killed the GK. Since the blade wasn't active, he resurrects, but it got its last kill, so it's active now.

Alucard6986

I'm not sure how I feel about the alternate weapon styles as far as defense goes. Losing the neutral block is killing me since half the time I really can't tell the difference between some of the directions of attack, so I pretty much always eat shit if I can't parry something. Those long combo strings the guys do sometimes? Forget about it.

Maybe I just gotta dump some points in block....though I don't want to be screwed hours down the line for any reason.

gjaustin

george-x wrote:

Holy shit - I didn't know there was a true ending to the first game. How did you get it?

Buy the Infinity Blade then go to the basement. It was part of the free DLC, but since I only bought the game a few months ago, it was already out when I played.

Ragnar Dragonfyre

Did anyone else master all the items in the first game? I have only a handful left, but holy shit did it take a long time to stock up enough gold later on to just buy one new piece of equipment. I really wanted to "finish" Infinity Blade completely before this came out, but I definitely can't be bothered to grind anymore now that the sequel is out.

Jam Warrior

The later items were a pretty shameless push for in app gold purchases. The grinding involved to buy them would have been insane.

Game is finished when you have seen the basement ending really.

Did the generation minus one thing ever lead to any kind of plot? I saw that there was an achievement for reaching some silly high negative generation but only ever tried out gen minus one out of curiosity.

Alucard6986

Ughh, maybe I should really just go back to sword and shield. These contextual blocks are killing me.

george-x

Um. What the HELL.

I started the game again this morning to load up my lvl 26 character I spent all afternoon on. My game wasn't there!

It was starting me on Level 1 again.

WHAT THE HELL?! I'm so fucking pissed off right now. I really have no desire to restart the entire process from scratch. Had over 60k gold, tons of weapons, etc.

What the hell Chair. Are you people insane, missing a glitch like this?! For shame.

Ragnar Dragonfyre

george-x wrote:

Um. What the HELL.

I started the game again this morning to load up my lvl 26 character I spent all afternoon on. My game wasn't there!

It was starting me on Level 1 again.

WHAT THE HELL?! I'm so fucking pissed off right now. I really have no desire to restart the entire process from scratch. Had over 60k gold, tons of weapons, etc.

What the hell Chair. Are you people insane, missing a glitch like this?! For shame.

I heard about this glitch yesterday... people were actually posting about it in the review section on the App Store. I think I'll refrain from starting until they fix that bug.

Adda

george-x wrote:

Um. What the HELL.

I started the game again this morning to load up my lvl 26 character I spent all afternoon on. My game wasn't there!

It was starting me on Level 1 again.

WHAT THE HELL?! I'm so fucking pissed off right now. I really have no desire to restart the entire process from scratch. Had over 60k gold, tons of weapons, etc.

What the hell Chair. Are you people insane, missing a glitch like this?! For shame.

As above, I had the same problem.

To fix it you need to go into iCloud settings and turn off 'Documents and Data' saving. Give that a go and reload, some people go their saves back. I didn't but at least I can stop and start now.

george-x

Nope, didn't work.

Honestly, screw these people. This is disgusting.

george-x

This guy's description as to how it's "not a very BIG issues...!" can blow me.
http://blog.ihacksrepo.com/?p=668

minor incident

Steam Cloud taught me to be wary of cloud-synced saved games.

Because most of the time the easiest way to have them "in sync" is to delete both! There, synced!

Zombiemambo

Stupid iOS robbing me of games I want to play

Dracil

Apple's sync mechanisms have always struck me as godawfully stupid. Wanna delete something from just one place? Sorry, they all must go poof.

(If you try to remove the saves from iCloud in the process of completely disabling iCloud, it will also delete it from your device)

Dracil

Apple's sync mechanisms have always struck me as godawfully stupid. Wanna delete something from just one place? Sorry, they all must go poof.

Xaviar wrote:

george-x wrote:

Also,

If the God King was killed by your descendants over and over, shouldn't there have been some mention of his resurrection every time you started a new bloodline (assuming you beat him)?

Only part way through the book and the IB2, but:

It seems as though canon-wise, the God King was killed by you once. All the previous descendants, he killed. Further spoilers about the blade itself:

The Infinity Blade was designed to kill the Deathless finally -- stop their cycle of resurrection. But it wasn't ready yet. The God-King purposely set up the mythos that has the descendants constantly coming back to fight him, because killing them over and over was somehow fueling the Blade. Conveniently, the time the final descendant kills the God King was supposed to be the last death the Blade needed to activate. However, you killed the GK. Since the blade wasn't active, he resurrects, but it got its last kill, so it's active now.

Just finished the book. Major spoilers about the character, explains the first game, etc.:

Basically the bloodlines from the first game was fake. They were all you, reincarnated each time as a baby so that you would have no memories of your past. However, what happened in the prologue was that you were reincarnated with your current body, so you start remembering your past, and each time you die, you will lose more and more of yourself and become the Deathless you once were, which you do not want to become.

Also, your ancestor in the dungeon was actually one of your sons from a previous reincarnation where you decided not to fight the God King.

So basically it's one of those stories where the protagonist is half-human/half-something else which gives allows him to meld his superpowers with a human side, allowing him to accomplish stuff no others can. I'm sure it's a tv trope.

minor incident

I can't believe I'm actually considering reading a book based on a cell phone game.

george-x

Minor, my thoughts exactly. So awesome