Tales of Phantasia (iOS)
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An iOS port of Tales of Phantasia, the first game in the Tales series, was released in 2014, and pulled several months later. It was released for free instead of an actual price on the App Store. As noted, the concept didn't even go well for the game, and as a result, the game was later pulled several months later.
Why It Sucked
- They made the game free-to-play when it was more wise to just pay once.
- As a result, the game was intentionally made grindier and more tedious than the SNES or GBA versions in an attempt to trick the player into buying microtransactions:
- The port locks the player in the hardest difficulty, so unless you're lucky early on or are willing to grind for levels, you're going end up dying several times.
- All of the item prices are doubled compared to the original game, making microtransactions virtually necessary.
- As a result, the game was intentionally made grindier and more tedious than the SNES or GBA versions in an attempt to trick the player into buying microtransactions:
- The controls are awful even for touchscreen devices, sometimes even slippery.
- Several save points, which are often times important, were removed. The game is even known to auto-save within a battle, which is unacceptable at most times and sometimes renders savepoints entirely pointless.
- The game is a straight port of the original SNES and GBA versions with no gameplay improvements (for instance, the player still has no control over the part leader (unlike virtually all following Tales games) and can only control Cress in battle).
- Despite being a single-player RPG, the game requires you to constantly be connected to the Internet. However, since the game was pulled from the App Store shortly after its release, this made the game literally unplayable.
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