Minecraft Legends Review

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In the process of creating an unlimited number of block-based buildings and experiences, Minecraft has conquered the world. It is a gaming behemoth that continues to strike a chord with younger gamers, providing a space to harness their creativity, hang out with friends, or just hit each other with diamond swords. Microsoft could see the further potential when they acquired Mojang, and following on from the dungeon crawling of Minecraft Dungeons, we’re now getting Minecraft Legends, a creative RTS-like that takes what you know about Minecraft and twists it into a new shape.

Minecraft Legends creates a new narrative set in the beloved block-land, with the kingdom facing strife in the shape of an immense Piglin army that is set on spreading havoc and corrupting everything around them. Foresight, Action and Knowledge are the three guardians who witness the destruction being wrought, and seek out a new champion – that’s you – to tackle the pork-based peril.

To protect the land, you’re taught how to manipulate the world around you in a way that’s similar to the Minecraft experience you know and love, but in a refreshingly different way. This is vaguely an RTS, and slightly a MOBA, and it comes by way of Brutal Legend and Pikmin. You have to harness resources from the world, build up your defences and form an army in order to succeed in battle. You send off a variety of Allays that will harvest a set area for you, collecting resources like wood, stone and iron that you can then turn into useful things like soldiers and walls. It’s all very streamlined, so you can quickly set your charges harvesting and then leave them to it, allowing you to focus on the main task at hand.

That main task tends to be fighting off attackers. Maybe