In fairness, providing everyone stays topped up with Health Points and Mana (magic) - which you do by doling out potions or using a sidekick as a healer - the average scrap involves precious little effort.
It’s a pain, however, that actions can’t be cancelled once queued – especially when a party member suddenly needs a potion but Atrian already has three attacks lined-up. You simply tap an action (basic attacks, magic skills, potion downing and passing around, or running away) and choose an enemy/comrade to apply them to. It’s a breeze to assign a sequence of up to three actions at a time for Atrian. While movement around the open environments is handled with virtual analogue sticks, fighting is controlled entirely through menus. In practice, you'll probably focus on guiding Atrian through battles, assigning attacking, defensive, or healing roles to your comrades. If you make it through the dozen hours of the main story, the plot does suitably thicken with some twists, turns, and sacrificial deaths.īut with the meat of the gameplay falling into combat and walking (or riding on mounts) towards more combat, it’s the battle engine where most time is spent.īy default, you only control Atrian’s attacks, but you can switch to meticulously micro-managing all three of your party.
You’ve got a spiky-haired hero with a silly name (Atrian), an overblown conspiracy plot involving men in hoods, and a girl needing to be rescued while wearing the shortest skirt ever seen outside of a Rhianna video. The never-ending storyĮternal Legacy does its utmost to tick each and every Eastern role-playing box in the first 20 minutes. You see, while Gameloft’s latest ‘homage’ to a hit franchise (in this case, we’ll simply say the words ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Final’ then let you play a fun rearranging game) provides a generous piece of RPG action, it’s more a careless dollop than a meticulously carved slice.
With every four steps in the game seemingly blocked by another group of monsters milling about waiting for you to attack, after a couple of hours of incessant battling you’ll start looking for ways to ‘wall-hug’ past the bad guys and press on with the story. Some of the biggest satisfaction to be found in Eternal Legacy comes from pretending you’re Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher.
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