![]() ![]() It’s a good thing you’ve got that sword too, because in Legends you’re going to be slaughtering a lot of adorable creatures. Unlike its top-down peers, you’ll be personally leading your army into the fray, riding your mount into the battle as you dispatch any unlucky enemies with a swing of your sword. ![]() Wisely opting for immediacy over bombarding you with layers of systems, Legends sees you simply selecting your unit type with a squeeze of the trigger and ordering them to either follow, wait or advance in the direction you’re facing. As I roam the vast blocky overworld, the first thing I’m struck by is just how intuitive commanding units feels with a controller. ![]() While you still mine – and indeed craft – this time your reliance on resources is viewed through the zoomed-out lens of the real-time strategy genre. It’s this feeling of looking down on toy troops and storming Fisher Price castles that Legends captures perfectly, except this time I get to charge into blocky battle before getting called in for dinner.Ī collaboration between Mojang and strategy experts Blackbird Interactive, Legends ultimately plays like an action-packed blend of Halo Wars and Mount and Blade. When I was a kid, I used to spend hours painstakingly arranging my figures in the garden, placing my plasticky platoon in prime position for the imaginary skirmish to come. READ MORE: Video game music wouldn’t be the same without Ryuichi SakamotoĪs you may expect, Legends’ playful pivot into the strategy genre is a natural fit for Minecraft.Now, 14 years and one unstoppable cultural phenomenon later, developer Mojang is expanding its world of imagination into a different childhood fantasy: being king of the castle. ![]() The work of a tiny team, this mammoth maker sim came out of nowhere, blindsiding the industry with its jaw-dropping scale and seemingly limitless creativity. It’s hard to overstate just how impactful Minecraft’s arrival was in 2009. ![]()
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