Not all PDA games are cheesy and redundant. Take Arvale: Journey of Illusions for instance. It’s fun as sin to play, and I would love to have full time access to this game and others like it.

Is it really worth it though? Yes, PDA games are great when stuck in traffic, shopping with the spouse, plus a million other opportunities as well. For a PDA based game, the graphics are quite good and the game play is fun as well. Not too bad for an RPG I must admit.

Arvale: Journey of Illusions is a fresh new RPG game from the many time award-winning game developer PDAMill. Usually, every PDAMill title released features high quality graphics, music, and sound effects, and this game should be the same, considering it is one year of hard work by three people!

The story goes like this: a long time ago, Dragons and Humans lived in harmony together. Eventually, the dragons started to teach the humans small amounts of magic at a time. This made the Dark Dragon angry. The Dark Dragon went on a rampage to kill every person who knew magic and every dragon that taught it. A hero appeared, put the dragon to sleep, and disappeared. The dragon woke every 20 years, and a new hero would appear each time. The dragon is about to wake again. You play the role of Duncan Forsythe, a young gardener who is told he is to be the next hero. Arvale is a turn-based RPG game much like Final Fantasy. To increase your character’s stats and skills, there is an experience-level based system. To level up, you need to get the required amount of experience from fighting enemies. After every time you gain a level, the amount of experience required increases. To survive in the game, you also need to buy weapons, armor, magic, and healing items. You may also need to stay in inns to revive yourself after combat. You get the money to do all of this from defeating enemies or selling items. The armor and weapons you buy also have a limit of how many times you can use them, so you will need to replace them often.