Elder Scrolls Blades could be "fun" I think if it wasn't for the fact it has wait times to build shit and premium currency to skip these times. The loop of being sent on little missions to get loot and then use that loot to build the town seems fine enough. The missions are short and extremely simple, and there are secrets to find (sort of like a doom level), except every interractable item glows so you can find the secret levers very very easy.

This does take the loot of Elder Scrolls and turn it into piss because they "needed" to make it have descriptors like "Fire Hide Helmet" or epic/rare versions of Hide Helmets. Elder Scrolls doesn't need that shit if they EVER add that to mainline Bethesda games.... God save our souls...

Also the touchscreen controls suck. Moving in a 3D space with the virtual thumbstick AND moving camera by swiping sucks. You can tap the screen to move somewhere, but it doesnt feel like it understands what you want to do so it sucks.

Like I do think what this game's basic concept is could be dope, but its designed to be a free mobile game, so it has free mobile game bullshit.

I appreciate the efforts that Blades goes to make this a comfortable adaptable experience on mobile like being able to play it either in portrait or landscape as well as being very easy to put on pause and come back to later, but it's also astounding how fast it pulls the rug out from under you compared to most other mobile games with the excessive timers and paywalls. I think Bethesda themselves know how much of a failure that aggression ended up being considering how infrequent updates are, and how the PC and console ports beyond Switch are essentially cancelled at this point. A shame because I think there was potential with this here, at least a tier better than just another gacha game at least.