Random Heroes: Gold Edition (2020 Video Game) User Reviews

A watered down version of the earlier mobile games

[DanSchneiderLovesKids · 5/10 · 19 August 2022]

I played Random Heroes 2 and 3 on my iPad back in the day, and I still have 2 on there because of how much of a masterpiece it is.

Here is simply a list of things that were downgraded/removed from the previous games in the Gold Edition.

• Walking backwards while shooting is gone.

• Raising your arm to change the angle of your shot is gone.

• Unique hero abilities are gone.

• Hero stats have been reduced to damage, health, and speed. In the mobile version, the guns decided the damage, and the stats also had jump height.

• Weapon selection is reduced to 25 guns, a lot of which are different versions of each other. No sniper rifle. No energy sprayer. No fun.

• Hero and weapon upgrades are gone.

• Buying heroes is gone. You have to unlock them by earning stars.

• Aliens reacting to the player is gone. Each alien now just follows a specific pattern and stays that way no matter what the player does.

• Only one cutscene for a collection of the 3 games. How do you not include all of the cutscenes from each of the games? It's just a guy talking. It's not that hard to put in there.

• Boss battles, the weakest part of the mobile games, are even worse now. The levels at least had some room to move around. Now you just stand in one spot and jump to dodge attacks.

Despite ALL of that... it's actually still fun to play. Shooting aliens and earning coins is still satisfying despite the lack of progression and unique art styles in the levels. I wouldn't recommend it to most people though. There are way better 2D platformers out there on Xbox and Playstation. I would recommend the mobile games if I could, but they have tragically been removed from the App Store.