Minecraft Legends has a bit of charm, but it's a messy spinoff and worst of all, misses the point of what's great about the original. Our review:
I chose to open with my thoughts on the game's porcine provocateurs because I was taught to always preface any criticism with a compliment and, to be perfectly honest, the piglins are by far the best thing about Minecraft Legends.
You don't actually do any of this yourself. Unlike Minecraft Cool Original Flavour, Legends is a hands-off experience. All mining and crafting duties are delegated to the allays, tiny sprites who can be assigned to build structures, or gather all the resources of a given type in a small area. Both building and gathering types are restricted in number, so you're limited in how much you can do at once.
It's incredibly crude and the combination of constant babysitting and frustrating imprecision means that combat consists of spawning a blob of troops of various kinds, running up to the front lines with them in tow, and then aiming them at the nearest building or clump of enemies. Once your target has been destroyed, you gather up your troops again, head to the next target and repeat.
Being on the offensive is much the same. The piglins have poisoned the ground surrounding their bases, turning it into netherrack which, with the exception of the ramps needed to reach elevated structures, you can't build on. It means every assault is just a case of ferrying your troops from spawners outside the base to the buildings you wish to destroy. While you do eventually unlock the ability to cleanse netherrack, all that does is give you a closer spot to build spawners on.
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