New release: Battleheart Legacy

John writes in to inform me of the recent release of Battleheart Legacy, Mika Mobile‘s follow-up to 2011’s Battleheart.

If there’s a narrative premise to speak of, the devs aren’t talking. Instead, we have this:

The spirit of Battleheart returns, re-imagined! In Battleheart Legacy, you will explore a rich and detailed fantasy world, customize your unique hero with dozens of powerful skills and items, do battle with hordes of enemies, encounter quirky characters and discover the stories of a troubled realm. Will you become a powerful wizard, or a notorious rogue? A noble knight, or a savage barbarian? How will you forge your legacy?

Gone are the quirky 2D vector graphics of Battleheart, replaced with stylized isometric 3D. Gone is the real-time party-based combat system, replaced by direct control over a single character. To make up for the simplified combat, the game adds in some RPG elements missing from the original, such as open world exploration, branching dialog and quests. You can see the result in the game’s release trailer:

The devs state that the game features 150+ unique skills, 200 distinct pieces of equipment, 12 character classes, and a multi-classing system that lets you mix and match classes to customize your character.

Battleheart: Legacy appears to be an iOS exclusive; you can snag it from the Apple App Store for $4.99.