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Minecraft Legends debuts soon, first reviews are in
With some great visuals and strong multiplayer, Minecraft Legends adds new content for die-hard Minecraft fans. It still has room for improvement though.
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.
Minecraft Pringles are a thing, and I’d quite like some
I’m always up for trying new and odd foods. I mean, I barbecued some womb in a restaurant in Japan recently, and I can confirm that it was like calamari but tougher, and, largely, a lot worse. So, that’s why the idea of Pringles releasing a limited-edition Minecraft Suspicious Stew flavour intrigues me! I would like to give it a go and see if it’s actually quite nice or makes me barf.
Climb a Brutalist tower in this first-person platformer inspired by Minecraft parkour
I spent my morning trying and failing to rise from the depths of a vast Brutalist tower in Beton Brutal, a new first-person platformer. It’s a challenging climb yet a curiously chill vibe, perhaps because any time I fall all the way down, I’m delighted to be back surrounded by overgrown plants and sculptures rising from a pond. The developer says Beton Brutal “tries to replicate and build upon the parkour mechanics seen in Minecraft,” and I think I have a lot to learn. I didn’t even know Minecraft had parkour.
You too can dress like a Minecraft character for the low, low price of $4,350
Minecraft Legends is more exciting proof that Minecraft can be anything
It’s war against the Piglins
Minecraft Legends Review
Minecraft Legends review: a colourful RTS limited by its own small ambitions
Surveying the sprawling piglin outpost before me, a plan forms. With a flourish of button presses from my controller, I spawn a sizeable army of zombies. They’ll zomble their way up the main path, and with their high health pools they’ll cut into the vast piglin forces and buy me time. With another flourish a contingent of friendly creepers scuttles along behind me. I lead them on a flanking attack around the outpost, targeting their spawners while the main piglin army is occupied with my frontal assault. A masterpiece of tactical engineering!
Or it would have been, if my minions weren’t so bloody stupid. Half my zombies fell off the staircase they were climbing due to their terrible pathfinding, and burned up in the lava moat below. Meanwhile, I sent my creepers off to explode against the first spawner I found. Only one of them got there; the others relentlessly humped a wall they could easily have climbed, until Piglins surrounded and slaughtered them. I returned to my starting point with what remained of my army, a fair bit poorer in resources, and a great deal poorer in patience.
Welcome to Minecraft Legends, a strange mixture of real-time strategy and open-world adventure which frustrates and impresses in equal measure. There’s half a great game lurking here, but it’s marred by inadequacies that have nibbled away at me like piglins at my walls. This game could have been so much more.
Minecraft Legends release times, install size, and preload detailed
With the Minecraft Legends release date now just days away, Microsoft has detailed everything you need to know to get ready for launch, including the specific Minecraft Legends release times for each region on Steam and PC Game Pass. We also now know just how big the install size will be, and when you can start preloading the strategy game.
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