entry102615 [game review] "Living Legends: The Wrath of the Beast" CE
~x-posted to bigfishgames.com under the game's reviews~
!!Be warned: Spoilers!!
Just got done playing the main part of the PC game, "Living Legends: The Wrath of the Beast" Collector's Edition.
It was okay I guess.
Pretty mediocre game play. A lot of back-n-forthing between areas to complete puzzles, etc. Thankfully there's a decent map that gives you an easy area-to-area jump feature. Pretty typical of games of this kind really. Some puzzles, some HoGs... Nothing major or difficult to figure out. I only skipped Maybe two of the puzzles and that was more due to impatience than anything being too difficult.
Graphics were nice. Fairly lush and rich with out being overwhelming in detail. Not too dark or too light.
Music was great. The music was very well done. It fit the theme of the game nicely. Wasn't over-repeatative or over powering in the least. I only had it turned part way down simply so I wouldn't get distracted from what the NPCs might have to say.
Story was... Meh as these sorts of games go. It could have been A Lot better but it seemed like the people writing it shied away from doing something Really interesting or even a little less bland with it...
Which leads us to-[The things that bugged me.]
The things that bugged me.
A couple were game specific...
One: that they stopped short of making it really interesting by having Goldilocks either being a were-bear and giving Birth to the cub or having her husband being one. Just stealing the baby... Meh.
Two: It says that "you ended the feud between the bears and humans." Uh... Kinda but not really... Look it's not really Possible to feud when there's only TWO "people" of one of the factions left alive, ya know? It's not a "feud" when it's stopped because of mass murder/genocide. When you drive one race to the brink of extinction, yeah I Guess that would count as "ending the feud." In a fucked up sort of way.
And the not-so-game specific...
As in not specific to this Specific game but to this specific Type of game...
Why oh why do the lead characters Never have any brains about who the baddies are??!
Seriously. When your town lore goes on and on about a guy in robes doing questionable things, the first thing you do when you Meet a Guy in Robes doing Questionable things is NOT to Heal him. It should be to step back and go, "Huh... Something's off here. Maybe I should go do Other things before dealing with this dude until I can figure out if he's a good guy or not."
It's like the dumb blond bimbo running from the serial killer, while wearing high heels, and being surprised when he catchs her and kills her. Or going to investigate a noise some place you Know has only one way in and one way out. (i.e. Attics & Basements)
When you do stupid shit, Bad shit Will happen as a Result.
All in all, would I recommend it to other players?
I suppose. I mean it wasn't Bad and as long as you got the Collector's Edition like I did, it Might last for a little bit.
But if you're looking for something really rivetting or truly engrossing... I'd have to say pass on this one. It has zero replayablity to it and honestly, unless you're Really bad at these sorts of games, you won't be playing it for very long before you've beat it. It took me roughly two and a half hours Maybe and I only skipped Maybe one or two of the puzzles along the way. The part that took the longest was the whole bit of going back and forth between areas until I figured out I could just jump using the map.
Anyway, that's me n my 2¢ worth.