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King Arthur: Legion IX is a dark fantasy, tactical rpg and turn-based tactics game
developed and published by NeocoreGames.
Released on May 09th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 639 reviews of which 471 were positive and 168 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 19.99ā¬ on Steam, but you can find it for 9.37ā¬ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 39 GB available space
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First of all, let me start by saying that this is a good game which does quite a lot of things very well. I donāt regret buying it. I am happy to have it in my library. Yet, unfortunately, it has a few cardinal sins that personally are dealbreakers for me. And because of that, I wonāt finish it. Let me also add that I havenāt played the Camelot prequel to this game. At first glance, it looked pretty similar to Expeditions Rome. Which I liked very much. Combat, storytelling, gameplay, in all aspects. The story is interesting enough, a lost Roman legion ordered to find an escape from hell ends up in some sort of purgatory land in between the two worlds. The main 3 characters are very well drawn out, they are easy to grow fond of despite the fact that theyāre ugly-as-hell skeleton warriors from, well, hell. The first missions were promising where I was trying to figure out the game&combat mechanics. Then, just as I thought I had a grasp of the game, the overworld map came up. I was looking at my possibilities. I kept looking. For a while. Until I was convinced that it was not my dumb ass missing anything, but the whole game was a strictly linear, scripted theme park ride. Zero chance to swerve away. None. OK, not all games need to be open world. Iām not expecting Fallout- or Avernum- or Underrail-style unnerving sense of deadly freedom from all games. Thatād be unfair. But let me at least roam around a bit to freely get my ass kicked in the wrong times&places. Instead, it turned out to be a RPG-lite very much like Mutant Year Zero and Miasma Chronicles where the whole game is a scripted series of mini maps in which exploration is just a formality, a dull matter of not stepping on the wrong tile (the dangerous, combat-initiating tiles are marked red anyway) until you clear the fog and ādiscoverā your 3 options: Frontal attack (wrong option), the weak spot (correct option) and sometimes a third more adventurous opening. Some battles have no optional approach, you just have to take them head-on. The maps are designed to give you a couple of different paths to the final objective. Well, there you have it, a choice to make. Thereās no inventory. Well, thereās one, but you canāt access it during missions. Thatāsā¦ an unfortunate game design decision in my book. Undead legionaries cracking jokes while swinging blades and spells in a fantasy land, but theyāre unable to exchange a few items and potions between them. You canāt use any of your abilities outside combat. Why? I donāt know. Speaking of choices, theyāre mostly confined to your character builds and base building department of the game. Paying 500 gold for a merchant upgrade to buy cheaper potions, wow, thatās what I call exciting RPG decision making. Let me repeat, characters and skills are quite well done. To the point that they really made me want to play on, until complete linearity choked my will to live. I think the mutated duck game is based on a table top game, so that would explain its limitations. But why follow such an exampleā¦ I guess thereās a considerable gamer segment who like RPG-lites. The game is very nice in some aspects, leading undead legionaries is really cool, and I wish the developers well, but know before buying that in my book, this is not a CRPG, or even an RPG for that matter. Peace.
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The gameplay is great, but just like the original King Arthur, the difficulty spikes are nightmarish. Work up to play the game on hard, or very hard, then hit the endgame and it is impossible. Be ready, bc if you have a few hundred hours in King Arthur, normal will be too easy, but then the jump to hard or very hard will have a few fights which seem impossible despite just crushing it on normal or hard.
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It's more King Arthur, what can I say? To be honest, if you liked the first game and want some more stories set in that world, you'll probs get some enjoyment out of this. The below is for people who already played King Arthur: Knight's Tale. If you haven't played that game, you should play that one first. This is essentially a stripped down version of the first game (cheaper too, so doesn't bother me much). - The voice acting budget went out the window on this one, going from Mordred to this guy is painful. - Way smaller morality system (only good/evil). - 6 Characters only. - Less powers overall, but to be honest, they added a lot of new ones into these characters, which made some things feel fresh. - Different city to upgrade, albeit much less upgrades compared to before. -No HP system (only Vitality) and characters revive at the end of each encounter if they died. If you liked the first game, I do think it's worth picking up. If you're in no rush, wait for a sale.
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Short version: Is it as good as the first game? No. Is it still enjoyable? Yes. The long version: as many others have mentioned here, Legion IX seems like a step backwards from Knight's Tale. A large amount of mechanics have been removed, the writing and voice acting are noticeably worse, and almost all the maps are copy-pasted from the first game. It might be best to think of this game as a DLC or very extensive mod. If you felt that the first game was too complicated, then this was made for you. If not, then you might be somewhat annoyed by the dumbing-down of the mechanics here. Positives and new mechanics: -Each character has unique abilities with no overlap. -Added the Larium, which applies significant modifiers to game mechanics. -The character that wields a two-handed weapon no longer feels so immobile as to be useless. -The "archer" has much better damage output and is now actually competitive. Overall, classes feel much more balanced. Negatives and removed mechanics: -No more roster management. Most missions are played with the same 5 characters. Some missions have a 6th. -Gear no longer has levels. An item gained in the first 5 missions could still be viable in the final mission. Instead, you can invest resources to upgrade a weapon or armor piece once. -Maximum character level is reduced to 18. -HP is no longer a major mechanic. It's now just armor and vitality, unless you use an ability for temporary HP. -No more lasting injuries or resting between missions. -The morality chart is now a morality line. Just plain good and evil.
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Firstly - this is basically DLC and priced accordingly, but packaged as a standalone to be accessible to more players. It's not a full-size full-priced sequel, so shouldn't be directly compared to the main game as such. What it is, is a more streamlined, and much better balanced series of tactical battles. The 'strategy' layer of Knight's Tale (roster management etc) was the least successful part of it, and they've done away with most of it here. You're not choosing between different characters and different missions and balancing levels and XP and making semi-permanent skill tree choices. You're playing through a story with the same 5 or 6 characters that all level up after each mission and can respec for free whenever you like. The tactical gameplay is similar to the original, but the new classes (with a mix of new and old abilities) and the ultimate system give it a freshness and new depth. The balance is a lot better, with no stealth and fewer sources of AP-gain and damage ramping. To offset that you're given 5 or 6 characters for each mission instead of 4, and powerful ultimates that add a lot of tactical flexibility. They've also added a new difficulty level, 'Brutal', that takes things past the 'Very Hard' setting where Knight's Tale left off. It offers some genuinely challenging missions, but all very doable using the tools available. Some people try their first playthrough on Brutal and complain it's impossible. Others managed to do just that. I waited for my second playthrough, and after some early hurdles managed just fine. It's good to have a bit of a challenge sometimes, as it was a bit too easy to just start steamrolling everything after a certain point in Knight's Tale. Feels fun for a while, but soon gets old. There's an end game once you finish the campaign, where you stop levelling up and there's no more voiced scenes. What you do get is a lot more battles (some pretty unique), more high end gear to make different builds work, and a skill tome every now and then so you can still add a little bit of progression to one or two key characters. A couple of disappointments - most of the voice acting is pretty bad, with the notable exception of the female character who very much lifts the narrative any time she's involved. They still don't let you see the character screen during battles, so you sometimes lose track of some of the minor gear-based passives etc. And some of the achievements seem to be bugged. The music, by the way, is excellent. I've had a great time with this, and I'm over 100 hours from two playthroughs (Hard Ironman on the life path, Brutal Classic on the demonic path) and almost nothing's been boring (maybe just end game on Hard got a bit too easy). Despite making this standalone, for anyone who hasn't played Knight's Tale I'd still recommend that first. But for those of us who have, and want a fresh challenge, this is some of the best DLC I've played in a long time.
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17
Developer
NeocoreGames
Publisher
NeocoreGames
Release
09 May 2024
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