Filip Brož Hitman Go, Lara Croft, Final Fantasy or Hitman: Sniper. Popular iOS games that almost every player on iPhone or iPad has tried and which have one common denominator - the Japanese developer studio Square Enix. It entered a brand new platform late last week when it released a full-fledged RPG for the Apple Watch called Cosmos Rings. Although it is not the first similar game for the Apple Watch, it is definitely one of the most successful and, above all, the most sophisticated.
That is not surprising at all. Behind the project are experienced developers such as Takehiro Ando, who is responsible for the Chaos Rings game series, or Jusuke Naora, who worked as an art director for several Final Fantasy installments. The Japanese studio has always relied not only on high-quality gameplay, but above all on a good and captivating story. Cosmos Rings also have this feature. The main plot revolves around the hero trying to free the Goddess of Time. However, not only various monsters and bosses stand in his way, but above all time itself, which plays an important role in the game.
At the same time, the event takes place only and only on the Apple Watch. The iPhone only serves as an add-on where you can read the complete story, find game stats, a manual or tricks and tips, but otherwise Cosmos Rings is primarily for the Watch. At first glance, the game resembles the RPG Runeblade, which we already talked about they reported as part of the Apple Watch review. However, Cosmos Rings differs from Runeblade in that it is much more sophisticated and the developers used a digital crown to control the game.
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Time travel
At the beginning, there is a comprehensive story waiting for you to familiarize yourself with. It will always be recalled when you achieve some success or defeat a boss. That being said, Cosmos Rings is all about time, which you should never run out of. If that happens, you're unfortunately starting from scratch. For that reason, you have to use time travel to the past or future, which you control with the help of the digital crown.
Each game round is divided into days and hours. Logically, you start on the first day and the first hour. In each similar round, a certain dose of enemies awaits you, which will gradually increase. There are only a few at the beginning, with the main monster waiting for you at the end of each hour. Once you defeat him, you advance to the next class. A total of twelve hours await you in one day. However, the joke is that at the beginning you have a time limit of thirty minutes, which is not only running away from you in reality, but also the monsters during the fights deprive you of it. Once you get close to zero, you have to use time travel to the past and move back a few steps, which will give you the full time limit again.
However, thirty minutes is by no means the final number. Just as you can travel to the past, you can also travel to the future (again using the crown), where you can increase time with the energy you have gained. You also upgrade your hero's weapons and levels in the future. Of course, the latter also has various special abilities, attacks or spells that are invoked by tapping the watch display in the lower right corner. Of course, every spell and attack must be charged, which takes a few seconds depending on the difficulty. However, from a tactical point of view, don't wait too long, as soon as it is charged, attack immediately. Monsters also have their own abilities and have different stamina.
If you interrupt the game, nothing terrible happens, as only a few minutes will be deducted, and you can safely continue after turning it on again. However, be careful not to shut down the game when you only have a few minutes left of the total time limit. It could easily happen that the next time you turn on the game, you will have to start from the beginning. Personally, I've always found it useful to finish one hour of play and shut down the game after defeating the main boss.
Eat real time
All your attacks have different power. At the beginning, you only have two free slots, but they will gradually unlock as you become successful. Cosmos Rings is a big eater of real time as well, but it's definitely worth it. I have not yet encountered such a sophisticated game and use of the watch's maximum potential on the Apple Watch. In the future, it would certainly be interesting to use the haptics of watches, for example, but that is still missing.
On the other hand, it is obvious that the game is quite demanding for the Apple Watch, and above all, I registered occasional tearing or a slow reaction every time I restarted it. Cosmos Rings even runs on the watchOS 3.0 developer beta, and it's more than stable. From a graphical point of view, the game is at a decent level, but there is definitely still work to be done. You can download Cosmos Rings in the App Store for six euros, which is not exactly small, but for the money invested you will receive a full-fledged RPG for the Apple Watch. For fans of Final Fantasy, the game is literally a must.
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