You can also engage Banner Mode to give yourself extra options, like targeting a specific enemy unit or building. You can order them to attack in a direction (but only up to a few metres away), or to hold position. Then you can rally all nearby mobs under your banner, and they'll follow you - in theory. You summon mobs of a certain type by placing down spawners and interacting with them. If you've ever played Tooth And Tail, then controlling units Minecraft Legends will feel familiar. It's a pity there aren't more biomes to discover. The map in both the campaign and the PvP matches is procedurally generated each time, which theoretically leads to different experiences each time you play. So, I set my sights on a nearby outpost and took my first steps into summoning and managing units. I was relentlessly encouraged by my three rather pushy Hosts to split my time between attacking outposts and defending villages. There's a real-time day-night cycle in play, and with each night the three piglin clans will expand in some way, either by erecting new outposts or by launching attacks on nearby villages. The map is divided into 15 or so different biomes, dotted with friendly villages and naughty piglin outposts. No need to manually chop down trees here - a fact that I tried not to be disappointed about as I figured out what I was expected to do next. As I cantered through forests and across rivers, I placed down chests, ordering friendly Allays to automatically gather particular resources like Wood and Stone while I rode on. It's very clearly Minecraftian in nature, but celshading and lighting works wonders at breathing new life into those familiar blocky vistas. It lay at the centre of an open world that was now entirely mine to explore, and this world looks truly beautiful. I was dropped into the world next to the Well Of Fate, my base of operations throughout the campaign. These Hosts created their own idyllic Minecraft world, but they need the Hero's help because Nether portals have began to crop up everywhere, groaning with Piglin forces intent on subjugating the Overworld. The character you control is known as the Hero, and at the beginning of the game's campaign they're visited in their regular Minecraft world by a trio of benevolent creatures with cringingly fake laughs known as the Hosts. Instead of dragging a selection box over some units and ordering them to move somewhere, you move your character over to those units, rally them under your banner, and lead them there yourself. Your character acts as the mouse does in regular RTS games. Minecraft Legends is one of a rare breed of RTS in which you are in direct control of a character in the world. There's half a great game lurking here, but it's marred by inadequacies that have nibbled away at me like piglins at my walls. Welcome to Minecraft Legends, a strange mixture of real-time strategy and open-world adventure which frustrates and impresses in equal measure. I returned to my starting point with what remained of my army, a fair bit poorer in resources, and a great deal poorer in patience. Only one of them got there the others relentlessly humped a wall they could easily have climbed, until Piglins surrounded and slaughtered them. Meanwhile, I sent my creepers off to explode against the first spawner I found. Half my zombies fell off the staircase they were climbing due to their terrible pathfinding, and burned up in the lava moat below. Or it would have been, if my minions weren't so bloody stupid. I lead them on a flanking attack around the outpost, targeting their spawners while the main piglin army is occupied with my frontal assault. With another flourish a contingent of friendly creepers scuttles along behind me. They'll zomble their way up the main path, and with their high health pools they'll cut into the vast piglin forces and buy me time. With a flourish of button presses from my controller, I spawn a sizeable army of zombies. Surveying the sprawling piglin outpost before me, a plan forms. On: Windows, Xbox X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Switch.Developer: Mojang Studios, Blackbird Interactive. Minecraft Legends is an interesting blend of adventure and RTS that could have been great, but hamstrings itself by limiting the player's freedom and control far beyond what you'd expect from a Minecraft game.
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