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Minecraft Legends is a colourful mix of real-time strategy and snappy buildingA brief presentation has us sold
A brief presentation has us sold
Minecraft Legendswasfirst announcedat Geoff Fest earlier this year, and a smidgemore footagedropped again at a Nintendo Direct Mini. But despite both of these events, it’s been difficult to ascertain what the game actually, well,is. Aside from being a real-time strategy spin-off, there’s been nothing else to scan with our eyeballs for more info.
Minecraft Legends: Fiery Foes – Official TrailerWatch on YouTube
Minecraft Legends: Fiery Foes – Official Trailer
With Minecraft Legends, you’re dropped into a procedurally generated map that’s littered with resources you can gather and evil Piglins (pig peeps). They’ve scarred the land with horrid forts, which house the netherportals that won’t stop spawning the bastards in. Your aim is to harvest the resources, use them to inflitrate the forts, and destroy the Piglin portals with a combination of stern leadership and savvy building.
For instance, the demoist rifled through their hotbar and selected all the bits necessary to construct a temporary encampment in the cliffs overlooking the fortress. Spawners let them create damage dealers and moss golems to heal or tank damage. You’re able to command you followers with a simple button press, and it’s easy to tell if they’re going to receive your orders thanks to a large command radius that expands outwards from your person.
Although I will say that it’s a bit difficult to read how clear commands and follower responses are in the thick of battle, especially when there’s a whole host of blocky bodies scrapping away at your feet. Still, maybe it all becomes understandable once you’re the one behind the controller, as opposed to the one sat on a sofa having just ingested a chilli-cheese hotdog.
After the demoist’s minions destroyed a lava coil, a massive Piglin roared in a cutscene and the menu screen signalled it was time to wrap up. It was a short taster, but definitely shaping up to be a fun mix of real-time strategy with the signature building twist that being set in the Minecraft universe brings. Honestly? I’m desperate to actually give it a whirl.
