Achilles: Legends Untold Review
It has been a month since Dark Point Games took action RPG Achilles: Legends Untold out of Steam Early Access and into full release. Dark Point Games claims that you should “Prepare for a legendary action RPG with intense souls-like combat.” Like most souls-likes, you will find a health, stamina, and fury bar in Achilles: Legends Untold, but the similarities stop there. With unbalanced combat and limited loot mechanics, Achilles: Legends Untold is more ho-hum than legendary.
We all know the story of Achilles. Brad Pitt played him in the movie Troy . Before that, Homer wrote about him in the Illiad. He was the greatest warrior in Greece and fought in the Trojan War. Nearly immortal, Achilles’ only weakness was his heel, which Paris used to bring about his demise. Untold fantasy football seasons have also been ruined by this affliction, ensuring that the story of Achilles’ Heel will never be lost to the sands of time.
The tutorial in Achilles: Untold Legends takes us back to this fateful time. Not the fantasy football part, but the moments leading up to Achilles’ death at the hands of Paris. And that is where most stories about Achilles end, but not this one.
With the tutorial over, our Achilles awakens a decade after his death, unsure of what has transpired in Greece since he died. In fact, he has no recollection of anything after his death. How and why is he back alive? What will he do next? That is the real story of Achilles: Legends Untold , so I won’t spoil it here.
What I can tell you is that Achilles: Legends Untold has a fairly linear storyline contained within a semi-open world map. There are plenty of areas to explore on the open map, all filled with various enemies to defeat. You are free to explore however you
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