Mobile Gaming Expert

The first thing you're going to notice when you play start Blades and Magic is probably the graphic. The game developers proudly acclaim the use of the Abyss graphical engine, which quite honestly meant nothing to me. My only assumption when I heard about it was that the game will be 3D - and it happened to be correct. In fact I can say the game is by far the best looking 3D java game on a mobile phone. This being said I still believe that it would've looked better in plain old 2D, especially especially considering the jar size but hey 3D is always nice. Besides we already know it's the future of mobile gaming, right?
Anyway. The game looks quite decent and sounds similarly well.
The interface is great and I'm a little jealous I didn't come with it in some of the projects I've worked on. Then again I never really got the chance to make an RPG, so I probably couldn't have used it anyway...
The hybrid battle system (it's basically turn based with a time limit) works much better than I expected.In fact it's almost perfect and  IMO it's just what Gothic 3 the beginning was missing.
Sadly Blades and Magic is not even half as good as it should have been.It is far too linear and badly scripted to be anywhere near perfection. The marketing claim of a "huge world" is grossly overstated- the map is really big, but you're limited to a really small part of it in each chapter and you can't move back to areas from previous chapters.Not only that but there are cases when you might die without even making a mistake, just because someone, somewhere miscalculated the odds of that happening. The characters look like they've been forcefully pulled out of the Warcraft universe and the side quests are there just because someone (probably the same "miscalculator" from the last sentence) decided there should be some of them. So no matter what you might have read about the  title- it's not the Holy Grail of mobile gaming...
Even with all the shortcomings I've mentioned above the game plays quite nice, if you can cope with the total lack of freedom associated with playing RPG games and the mediocre attempt at a story. The skill and magic system are decent and the fights are challenging which will guarantee at lest some fun  but does the game deserve the gold medal award it was given by my colleagues at Pocket gamer? Not by a long shot!
Graphic and sound 10/10
Gameplay      5/10
Value for money   6/10
Novelty         9/10
Total          7/10
The bottom line- Blades and magic is a game you should probably take a look at.It has some inexplicable charm to it and although I wouldn't go so far as saying it is "recommended"  it is a nice try in the RPG genre nevertheless.