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I came across this title late 2012 and fell in love with it. Blade Dash is simple auto-scrolling action game with only one goal, get as far as you can without losing all of your heart points.
Your first time playing, you should tap the joystick icon to learn the easy controls. Tapping the left side makes your character jump and double jump. Tapping the right side makes your character attack and tapping the lower right side while airborne performs a divekick. Then you tap the screen to start, prepare for some kickass music, and a test of your reflexes.
The game puts you at level 1, which consists of jumping over stone blocks and slashing wolves. A bar fills up on its own as time passes and earning a point when it’s full results in a level up. Upon leveling up, a new obstacle is placed into the pool for you to deal with. However, the new obstacle always shows up first when it’s added, so you can get an idea of what you’re dealing with. The game gets progressively more challenging as you level up, since all enemies from the previous levels are still a part of the pool and the rate obstacles appear speeds up. Your default health is set at three, and can be refilled by hitting heart boxes that occasionally appear. If you hit one while your health is full, you are granted an additional heart.
You’ve been hit by.. DUN DUN.. You’ve been hit by.. A smoo-slash- NEXT!!
Blade Dash has Game Center support and leaderboards, but the real achievement is unlocking X-Mode by earning enough points in one run for the game to tell you how to activate it. X-Mode is an extreme difficulty setting that immediately starts you off with enemies appearing at the maximum spawn rate. It doesn’t tell you which enemies are added to the pool upon leveling up, but it is the same as the default game. You really have to stay on your toes in order to avoid getting a game over instantly.
Blade Dash is very addicting, fun, and simple. There are no menus, complicated controls, or micro-transactions You just boot the game up, tap the screen to start, and dive right into playing. I would definitely recommend downloading Blade Dash.
Blade Dash is available for iOS ($ FREE)