On Nov 22, 2022 9:56 am, by Jane Young

Awaken Legends doesn’t fiddle. 

This idle gacha-RPG from Webzen throws you straight into the motion, leaving you to make amends for the story in your personal time.

That’s to not say Awaken Legends is a shallow expertise, or a recreation that sacrifices world-building for accessibility. It simply likes to maintain issues breezy.  

You’ll have entry to an enormous swathe of the sport’s content material inside a few hours of beginning. Solely a handful of options require you to make something like important progress via the marketing campaign. And also you’ll have a reasonably simple time getting there. 

However there’s a lot to absorb alongside the best way. Awaken Legends is bursting with element, from the character artwork and backgrounds to the biographies of the 50+ hero characters, which you’ll be able to learn any time on the Altar, residence of the Westland Annals and the Anecdotes of Adventurer. 

The Altar is only one of effectively over a dozen places in Awaken Legends. Earlier than we take a better have a look at these, we’ll cowl the vital bit. The combating. 

FIIIIIIIGHT

Awaken Legends is an idle-RPG, so the emphasis is on informal gameplay. Battles are automated and sped-up by default, and all you should do to barrel your manner via the primary handful is hold urgent the ‘Battle’ button. 

However there’s a slick interface at play, and a good quantity of tactical depth. 

Earlier than every spherical you get to decide on your formation, with six obtainable. Your purpose in choosing a formation is to match your items towards the enemy items arrayed on the opposite aspect of the display. 

As soon as your formation is in place you possibly can swap heroes round by dragging them together with your finger. This lets you make sure that your Mages are on the again, your Tanks are on the entrance, and so forth.

There are six lessons in Awaken Legends, together with Ranger, Tank, Murderer, Warrior, Mage, and Assist. On high of that there are six factions: Human, Nogoth, Brandon, Gifted, Elf, and Cyborg. Which means there are many variables to think about. 

Treasures Aplenty

Once you’re not combating, you’re claiming loot, leveling up, evolving, equipping gear, summoning extra heroes, and so forth. 

In the event you’ve ever performed a gacha recreation earlier than, you understand the drill. You summon heroes on the Royal Metropolis, both one by one or in teams of ten, earlier than dismissing your inevitable duplicates for further assets. 

Managing your heroes is an concerned job. Not solely do you should make sure that you’ve acquired highly effective heroes throughout a variety of lessons and races, however you should equip them, stage them up, promote them, and so forth. 

When you get into the meat of the sport you’ll should make choices about allocate your assets and which heroes to favor.  

This all would possibly sound a bit complicated, and that’s earlier than we’ve mentioned alchemy, grade resets, the Workshop, and the sport’s different arcane options and actions. 

However Awaken Legends retains issues flowing, even for those who don’t know what the hell is happening. On just about each display the place you’re requested to decide you possibly can select “auto prepare”, and little purple notification dots inform you the place to faucet. 

Observe the Prompts

There are those that would argue that you just’re not getting essentially the most out of the sport by simply following prompts, and also you’re unlikely to high the leaderboards or ship waves of concern via the PvP area with this strategy. Nevertheless it’s an accessible solution to get your foot within the door. 

Gratifyingly, there are all the time loads of purple dots on the display everytime you boot up Awaken Legends. Being an idle-RPG, it permits you to accumulate loot even once you’re not enjoying, so that you’ll by no means run out of stuff to do. 

Awaken Legends has loads of buildings dotted all through the Royal Metropolis and Council areas, in addition to an Journey display that allows you to participate in single-player battles away from the primary story marketing campaign. 

Journey works somewhat bit like card-battler, with every cleared display providing you with the selection of three perks to take into the subsequent display. 

We’ve been enjoying Awaken Legends for a couple of hours, and we haven’t but hit any main snags. The loot remains to be flowing, and we’re nonetheless profitable battles with out having to grind too exhausting.