Tag: adventure
National Treasure’s TV Spinoff Won’t Be Coming Back for Another Adventure
Late last year, Disney premiered National Treasure: Edge of History, a YA-oriented spinoff of the cult classic two-film series starring Nicholas Cage and Dianne Kruger. The series ended its first season back in early February, and as it turns out, that’ll be its only season.
The new steampunk adventure game from the makers of Myst recommends 32GB RAM and this is why
Minecraft Legends review: a cute kid-friendly strategy adventure, but missing the series’ magic
Sometimes the top-line pitch for a game is better than the actual finished product. Such is the case for Minecraft Legends, the latest spin-off intended to offer a different sort of gaming experience within the framework of the legendary survival franchise.
At preview, I was really impressed by Legends. After a successful jaunt into the RPG genre with ideal ‘my first dungeon crawler’ fodder Minecraft Dungeons, this title pitched the same again but for strategy titles. I like Minecraft, and I love strategy games, a genre that I feel is woefully under-served. Despite this, I’ve struggled to maintain interest in Minecraft Legends – and a lot of it is arguably down to simplicity.
As with Dungeons, the goal here is clearly to create something accessible and palatable to as wide an audience as possible. Minecraft is beloved by many very young children, and so any Minecraft game needs to have a sufficiently low barrier for entry. The bar is set low by Legends – but the game’s structure also doesn’t offer enough above and beyond that bar – which leads to an experience that feels brimming with potential, but lacking in its execution.
Platformer, multiplayer and music fans: why Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a must-play
You’re a cyberpunk T. Rex using your tiny arms to fix electronics in this ‘ironic’ retro adventure about customer service, time travel, and true love
Ravenlock is a action fantasy adventure launching on Game Pass May 4
Ravenlock is a slick looking fantasy action game, launching on Game Pass day one on both Xbox and PC. What better reason to try it out when it drops on May 4!
The game comes from Toronto-based developer Cococucumber, which previously dropped other neat indie titles including Echo Generation and Riverbond. Ravenlock follows a young girl, named Ravenlock, as they’re transported into a troubled kingdom. It’s up to you to save the kingdom of course, wiping out any and all evil creatures that cross your path in the conclusion to the Cococucumber trilogy.
If you like yourself a fantasty action game, you can expect much of the greatest hits here. With your sword, take out all manner of monster-like weeping fungi, mechanical birds, and more. Take a break from the action and check out some sweet looking enviroments spread throughout the voxel game. Finally, use powerful abiltities to take down the evil queen causing all these issues to ultimately restore peace to the world Ravenlock is fighting to save.
Minecraft Legends is a curious and charming blend of adventure and RTS
There’s always been something quite comforting about loading into a brand new Minecraft world. Dropping into that first forest, punching that first tree… It’s a promise of all the myriad adventures to come. And despite some fundamental changes in genre and perspective, it’s something that the team behind the upcoming Minecraft Legends has tried hard to preserve.
I recently was treated to the most in-depth look so far at Minecraft Legends, in an hour-long livestream which gave us all some much needed answers on what manner of beast Legends actually is. It’s a curious blend of action adventure and RTS, one that shares Minecraft’s focus on exploration, but guides the player down a stricter, simpler path of summoning friendly mobs and constructing defences to repel a Piglin invasion. This will likely be a solid introduction to the RTS genre for a lot of players, but I came away unsure about whether the game will have enough depth to keep its prospective playerbase’s attention.
Lil’ Guardsman remixes Papers, Please in a cute deduction adventure
Last night ID@Xbox held their latest showcase to spotlight all sorts of indies. One of the highlights was the cute deduction game Lil’ Guardsman, a riff on Papers, Please where you work on a guard post, choosing to accept or refuse entry for fantasy folk wanting to get into the city. Or you can just jail them. It looks like lighthearted fun, and it’ll be hitting PC and consoles later this year.