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I always wondered if Infinity Blade started out as a joke. It's like a parody of a roleplaying game: the archetypal RPG boiled down and peeled back, its repetition and pointlessness not just laid bare but exalted to a virtue. Just keep doing the same thing, the game says. You'll win eventually.
The first Infinity Blade forced you around and around a fantasy dungeon that was part Skinner Box and part Möbius strip: an infinite loop of challenge, punishment, and reward. Each time the villain killed you, the game sent you back to the start; each time you killed one of his minions you got a stat boost or a shiny new sword. It was fun, understanding exactly which bits of the standard RPG hook most directly into your brain's pleasure center and prune everything else. Not to mention probably the most visually dazzling game that had ever been seen on iOS.
But like one of its own characters, the Infinity Blade series has been repeating itself for a bit too long. While Infinity Blade III is more graphically polished than ever and dutifully adds a number of peripheral elements to the gameplay (you can now switch between two different characters, brew potions, and reforge weapons), it seems critically short of big new ideas.
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