If you haven’t got enough of one of Disney’s newest hit movies, now you can fill this empty void with a Descendants mobile game! Join the world of Auradon Prep, where magic is real and heroes and villains are the students! Create a name for yourself, make new friends, join the activities around numerous locations and raise your Legendary status!
Descendants is the newest 2016 casual game by the entertainment giant Disney. There is barely anyone who doesn’t know Disney, but if you don’t, then you might want to know about some of the other mobile games released by them. These include the Where’s My Water? series, the Frozen, Maleficent and Cinderella Free Fall games, Disney Infinity: Toybox and countless other titles!
Descendants is rated 3.8/5 stars on the Google Play Store, while it has gained a 4/5 stars rating on the Apple App Store. As with anything Disney related, this game has the potential to become hugely popular, but is it really that addicting to warrant it? Let’s figure it out!
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After customizing a brand new character for yourself, the story begins with you as a new student arriving at Auradon Prep, the school where descendants of famous heroes and villains reside. You first meet Ben, the King at the gates, who is the son of Beauty and the Beast. He welcomes you to the school, and suggests you find his girlfriend, Mal, daughter of Maleficent, who will show you around the place.
To move from one place to another, you can just simply swipe the screen left or right, then tap on the popups that are linked to other areas of the game. Some areas can be locked at times, but otherwise you are free to travel to any of the known locations in the game. Once you familiarized yourself with the controls, you have to find Mal, who is a villain kid. Villain kids usually cause trouble, but they are not inherently evil. She agrees to show you around, and also gives you a few missions to complete.
As you progress in the story of Descendants, you will make friends with other characters as well, such as Audrey, Evie, Carlos and Jay. Your contancts list, found in your smartphone will be located on the screen at all times, allowing you to see your friends list and accept possible calls or texts from them. Each character might ask you to help them out, such as Mal will request you to bring her spell book from another end of the school, so together you can dispel a spell cast on the school as a joke by another villain kid.
Now, talking with the famous characters of Descendants is one part of the game, but another is to complete missions and get a Legendary rank for yourself. Missions are usually given just like a quest by one of your friends, such as a request to throw a party, play sports, or engage in social activities with the descendants of Auradon Prep. Once you are in the designated quest area, there will be green circle popups around you, and each of those will equal to an activity you can complete. Each completed action will award coins, experience, shields and the rarely the premium currency of gems. Your goal is to get as many shields as possible before the time limit for each mission is up. If you successfully collect the maximum number of shields, then the mission is completed instantly.
The trick with the mission system is that each action requires some amount of energy to complete, and your energy bar is limited. At first your max energy will be 14, and a mission might require you to use up to 10 energy. Then the next mission might not be as easy to complete with less energy, and thus will require you to either wait for it to refill at a rate of one energy per four minutes, or spend gems to refill it. There are also a few objects, such as bushes or flags on each map that can be tapped, and they might drop some free coins and energy, but not at all times.
As you would probably expect, this game also features a leveling system, as suggested by the experience rewards. Gaining levels and completing missions in the game will award you with Spirit, which is an indicator of how popular you are. The more Spirit you have, the higher Legendary rank you get, and the more people will know about you in Auradon Prep! Anytime you go up in rank, there will also be news posts about you on the ingame internet, with famous descendants commenting on your status and recognizing you after a while.
Leveling up also has other advantages, such as clothing unlocks. You can access the wardrobe at all times, where you can customize your facial features, unlock new hair types, buy new clothes and create an unique look for your character to be worthy of a legend! Most clothes cost coins, but some things, such as hair might be only available for gems.
Obviously, you will need a good income of coins and gems to finance your journey in Descendants, so there are in-app purchases available. Prices for coins and gems start with 1500 coins or 15 gems for $1.99, ending with a colossal pack of 175,000 coins or 1250 gems for the price of $99.99. Gems can be exchanged for energy at a rate of 6 gems for 5 energy, and another use for them might be to speed up the rate at which you get missions.
As games which utilize energy limits become more and more popular, your gaming experience might suffer, if you run out of energy too fast. There are only a few ways to battle this: either pay up and buy gems to refill your energy bar, wait a really long time for recharge, or use cheats to get energy and gems for free. Today I won’t be suggesting you to spend any real money, and instead will give you options regarding cheats, and tell you a few tips and tricks!
One of your possibilities to get energy without the use of gems in Descendants is to look for tappable objects on each map. These usually drop a few coins and energy, which can be just what you need at times, and if you are extremely lucky, then you might also find a few gems after tapping all around the place. You can also exit mission areas while the time limit is not over, gather energy and gems this way, then go back and finish the mission.
Thankfully energy can also be gained by other means, such as by leveling up. If you manage to level up during a mission, try to deplete your energy bar to zero, then pick up the level up reward afterwards, as it will refill your bar without any penalties.
If you are any familiar with the game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, or Stardom: Hollywood, you will feel just at home in Descendants, as its game mechanics are almost carbon copies of the 2016 games mentioned. Is this a negative though, or is the mechanic good enough to warrant the copy?
Honestly, that depends on who you ask, but personally I see a few flaws with this system. While the general story of Descendants seems interesting, and the world is fairly well designed, the purpose of all quests in the game seemed to boil down to the same thing, which is tapping green circles and spending energy.
The pretty visuals, nice character design and generally fluid gameplay really makes this game feel welcoming, and I could easily see myself spend some time on it at first, but as I reached one hour played, I soon figured out that this game doesn’t want me to keep playing for long periods of times.
During the first 5 or so missions given by Mal, Audrey and the other descendants, there is no real issue with the game other than the simplicity of these tasks, but I could tap my way through missions without any trouble. This is because I leveled up often early on, which refilled my energy for free, allowing to take on more missions. But once I started to get missions that are harder to finish, thanks to higher energy costs and the lack of energy, it caused me to either get stuck unable to complete missions perfectly, or wait as long as possible to regenerate energy.
Of course there is the option go scavenging the maps and find hidden energy by tapping on objects, but these run out pretty fast, and don’t award more than 1 energy per hiding place. Later missions will require tasks that use six or more energy each, therefore making it almost impossible to do this. Then also consider the fact that missions don’t even start in time, and often I would have had to wait a hour or more for it to start, if I were not to use gems.
Overall, Descendants is a game that has a pretty “coat” that hides a game filled with endless waiting, and each mission ends up being a hunt for energy fest, which is not that fun to play, really. The story has potential, but this energy limited gameplay is enough to turn me off, especially as other than missions there is not much else to do.
Ratings
Artwork: The artwork of Descendants gets an 8/10 from me. Not only is the gameplay similar to Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Stardom: Hollywood, but the visuals as well. The artwork of Descendants clearly represents the same style used by those two games, which is honestly a highly appealing style, and it partly explains the popularity of these games.
Music & SFX: I give the music and SFX of the game a 7/10. The music is a strong point of the game, as there is a good variety of songs depending on area and current mission, which is impressive. The SFX are a little bleak though, with not much going for them, other than a few pops and chimes when picking stuff up.
Story & Originality: The story and originality deserves a 6/10. I would like to rate this higher, as the story is interesting enough that it might keep players hooked, but the gameplay is so recycled from similar games that I just can’t.
General Gameplay: The general gameplay of Descendants gets a 4/10. If I could experience a fully conversation based game placed in the world of Auradon Prep, I would enjoy it so much more than what this game has become. The recycled gameplay elements, such as the energy bar, the tapping on objects for free energy feature and the constant feeling that the developer wants you to spend real money makes the experience more of a suffering than fun.
Addictiveness: The addictiveness of the game deserves a 5/10. As with the problems mentioned above, there is not much of a reason to keep playing this for a long time. There will certainly be players who will accept the limitations of the game and either pay up or wait their way through the whole story. Still, just let me say that you decide how much your time is worth!
Overall Score: 6/10.