Legendary Tales

Let’s start with the bad, because there’s a lot of it. The game struggles with technical and design issues. Menus are buggy, enemies dodge at absurd speeds, and grappling ledges is inconsistent and frustrating. The lack of armor and magic creation is especially disappointing, and the game does a poor job explaining its systems. Stats, in particular, are barely explained, which makes experimenting with builds more confusing than it needs to be. Now the good. Combat is genuinely satisfying once it works. Weapon and bow crafting feels great, and the bosses are challenging without feeling unfair. The skill tree is large and flexible enough to support a wide range of builds. I’m currently running a fists-only build, and surprisingly, it’s one of the most fun ways to play. Punching your way through encounters feels impactful and rewarding. Overall, Legendary Tales has a strong foundation but clearly needs more polish. At its current state, the $40 price tag feels too high for what’s being offered. With more refinement and clearer systems, it could be something special, but right now it’s a hard sell at full price.

After about a decent amount of time playing I can say this for certain. Legendary Tales is NOT worth 55 dollars and is more likely worth 35 to 40 to be generous. Allow me to explain my reasoning. PROS It definitely has a dark souls vibe mixed in with Diablo that has a decent loot system where you will mostly get commons, magicals sometimes rares and perhaps uniques. If you grind hard enough and kill enough mobs then you will see the legendary weapons from time to time which I do appreciate. Opening chests and climbing ropes feel satisfying and gives off that Indiana Jones feeling of finding something spectacular. Atmosphere and soundtrack is good and the game is EXTREMELY dark which sets it's tone very well and isn't a happy fun time land but rather everything is depressing and mellow which compliments the art direction the game is going for. Crafting is spectacular and I could live off my fantasy of being a blacksmith making subpar to superior weapons. There's just something about pounding an ingot of metal against an anvil with it's "CLANK!" sound effect that triggers my monkey brain to send several waves of euphoria coursing through my body and seeing the finish product is just intoxicating. Even crafting potions are a sight to behold and it all works flawlessly since I've never had a problem with alchemy. Alright. Time for CONS which is mostly about combat. Combat. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dude. Combat is extremely wonky and nothing like blade and sorcery. While fighting monsters, I will tell you this right now that trying to STAB something will make the game automatically assume you are slashing because yeah, why not? whenever I make a stabbing motion like a psychopath that escaped from a mental health institute, the game just says "Oh, you're slashing right? there you go." which is absolutely INFURIATING when I want to do piercing damage the moment i'm in a enclosed space. Combat is something the developer should REALLY improve on before even thinking about adding anything else into the game because there's nothing worse in a game when the combat is just ass and will only work once in a blue moon, or if you take it out for dinner at a 5 star Michelin restaurant and let it rail you the moment you get into a hotel. The monsters behaviors have some slight intelligence especially goblins. Whenever you want to run after those little bastards that kept cutting your knees and ankles they just run off and alert their buddies to gank you like a gang initiation which seems like a reasonable action for them. However, there are some moments where skeletons will just get all up in your face trying to french kiss you. I get it, they're literally bones with no brain but there's no reason for them to act like a damn fighter from the vr game Thrill of the fight, a boxing game where the opponent literally wants to go inside you so you can't even hit them properly unless you have a literal boxing ring for space which is a damn luxury for most people. I'm not sure if it's skill issue but there are times where I will try to block or parry and the enemies weapons will still hit me every time even though I know for a fact that my stance and movement was on point. Sure, I'm not a god sweat in this game that could easily wash all the enemies in the game with the starting weapon but my god. Sometimes, I wonder if Thanos snapped his fingers to erase the weapon from my hands for a second whenever I get hit when for sure I would have blocked that attack. Leveling and progression. The level scaling and difficulty of the monsters is just downright bad. When you start out and explore the starting area, it seems like a cakewalk with most of the enemies having predictable movements so you can parry or block and cut them down. The problem is that the first "Mini boss" was a skeleton gladiator with two axes underneath a tree with bodies around him and my god dude. It felt like I was a piglet going against Hulk Hogan who has a steel chair and brass knuckles with his EXTREMELY high HP and damage output along with his complex patterns of attack and it didn't help that he was part of the first series of quest you get from the NPC's. After having my ass carried by two other people, I went into the first dungeon and found out that the final boss was quite easy since it was a normal skeleton with slightly higher HP. Whoever decided to put the Gladiator in the starting area instead of the dungeon is a straight up LUNATIC and I wouldn't be surprised if people refunded the game because of the spike in difficulty for no apparent reason. If they make an update, I hope they swap the skeleton boss in the first dungeon with the skeleton gladiator since it would be more appropriate. When you Level and use points to spend on skills and traits USE THEM WISELY and don't be a dumb ass like me because you wont get that ♥♥♥♥ back unless it's stat points. There are moments where I chose some traits and passives thinking they will increase my damage and survivability but it's extremely thin and almost irrelevant which makes being a warrior and using two handed weapons feel like you're the most useless being in the entire world when a mage can obliterate anything with one spell. At least give the warrior class a passive of an extra heavy attack for every 10 or 15 str you have just to balance things out a bit and make it seem like you're contributing because I've never felt more useless in my life as a warrior. I might as well make a new damn character and just RP as Legolas since I've done more with a bow and arrow as a warrior even though I'm supposed to be stupid and clunky but hit really hard and take really hard hits. For now, I'll leave this negative review up until the developers to iron out the combat and polish the game more. This game has a large amount of potential and if they do polish this game further down the road, then this negative review will be deleted and I will say it is actually worth 55$. For now, let's just wait and see what they will plan on for the future.

literally ruined the game on release, then tripled the price for a worse version that's completely different from what it used to be

This game was a basic but fun dungeon crawler in early access, but on release it barely had any additional features or polish, and in many ways was actually a downgrade. But more than doubling the price? That's sad. For 20 bucks when I got it, totally worth it, but I can't condone the price hike, especially not when the devs have seemingly abandoned the game and there are better options out there now.

Near AAA pricing for an indie game. Bought it on sale with high hopes, off rip it decided to put my hands in the wrong position/wrong angle and after recalibrating multiple times and restarting the game, checking my play area and the nine it wouldnt work, went on the official discord and got ignored, refunded without a second thought, imagine wanting AAA prices for a game that has gamebreaking bugs/issues the moment you start.

the game is ok, 71.99 dollars for a vr game is absolutely outrageous cant reccomend it until price goes down

Decent Game but 55 dollars is completely insane. Do not buy this game unless its on sale for 10$ or less.

Early Access game was more fun... I'd much rather have that. Plus it costed way less than what we have now.

Please bring back procedurally generated dungeons with the newer npcs. Idk why but the chaos in the veeeeeery early stages was fun and interesting. *Reviewed* Game is still amongst the gems of VR games in my library. Definitely cop if on sale and the DLC.