FDG Entertainment

I was confused when I first saw the title for World of Gibbets. I kept thinking to myself, “What the hell is a gibbet?” It sounds like a cute animal. Maybe it was a relative of those little gibbon monkeys you sometimes see at the zoo. Boy, was I wrong. A gibbet refers to an instrument of public execution and gibbetting was the act of stringing up bodies for public display in order to keep the community in line. What a lovely topic for a little iOS game.

It's been a great year for FDG Entertainment. Their previous title, Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, broke the top five our list of the 100 Best iOS Games Ever Made. So when we found out that FDG was doing a sequel to their well-received Across Age, we had our expectations set high. Sure, time travel has become a trope of role-playing game genre, spanning from the likes of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy to even Fire Emblem. And speaking of such classics, Across Age 2 does its very best to remind us of the RPG genre's 16-bit glory days. So lets see if Across Age 2 brings something new to the top-down table.

It's not unusual for games on the App Store to seem like complete clones of popular console games. While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, sometimes games just straight up copy the style of a popular title in the hopes that they'll gain the same sort of success as the source material. And while these carbon copies usually try to ape the original's style, they mostly fall flat. But n