The Battle for Wesnoth Review

Digitally Downloaded takes a look at the HD release version of the open-source turn-based RPG The Battle for Wesnoth for the iPad, and comes away impressed, giving it a 4/5.

If you think of Wesnoth as something akin to Fire Emblem, you’re on the right track. You move units around a hex-grid battlefield, fighting fantasy battles in turn-based fashion and winning experience for your characters. There are a mass of different character types to get a grip of, with some very large maps to traverse.

Within that frame is a great deal of depth in effectively managing your force – picking the right units for the situation, making good use of terrain and trying to protect them from death – like in Fire Emblem a dead unit is gone for good, along with the experience is had accursed through the game.