The Mageseeker lets you beat up League of Legends’ oppressive elite

polygon.com:

It’s a tale as old as time: A society has collapsed in on itself, as an elite class seeks to consolidate its power by oppressing another group. In the face of such injustice, a revolution forms. The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story explores an uprising through the eyes of Sylas, a rogue mage who is hated and despised for his tragic past and powerful abilities. Due to a stroke of luck, he escapes his prison beneath the capital city. Sylas now has to build an army, overthrow the regime, and confront his own demons.

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Mageseekers are agents of the government, empowered by the hypocritical nobility to hunt and persecute mages — unless their magic can be exploited to the benefit of the state. As the game continues, the question becomes not whether the new revolution against the Mageseekers of Demacia will succeed — it seems inevitable with a cause this just and a cast so determined — but what kind of world will be built in the aftermath.

In League of Legends, Sylas is a bruiser who fights by swinging his giant chains and stealing magic from enemies, turning their ultimate abilities to his own purposes. The Mageseeker builds on that play style. You control him from a top-down perspective in this action-RPG using his giant chains to strike enemies, but also to hookshot across rooftops and tear down