Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ Reviews

Se voce odeia o jogo LoL, mas gosta da lore, dos persongens, graficos estilizados e curte um jogo de turno, esse jogo é muito bom. Recomendo comprar na promoção.

This is a good RPG and you don't need to have played League of Legends nor know anything from the universe of Runeterra to appreciate Ruined King: A League of Legends Story. If you played LoL before and even watched Arcane, you will recognize some things, some bit of fan service. It's always welcome and I enjoy looking for bits that reminds me of LoL. The Good: Story is simple, not too long, not too short. I finished the game after around 30 hours I think. It doesn't have any surprise or plot twist but it's fine like that. More games should have more simple and enjoyable story like that. I liked that the story is localized to only two big islands and some small stuff on the side. We really focus on Bilgewater and the Shadow Isles and nothing else. All main characters are lovable! They are all stereotypes of some kind but they have really well written dialogues and their relationship with each other is nice and evolves a bit during their journey. I liked the combat system. It's engaging enough with abilities that you can upgrade to give them bonuses. But for more than half of the game, I stuck with three characters until the end: Braum, Ahri and Pyke because I felt like they were the strongest. Enchanting is a good idea! And I really liked that I didn't need to farm for Essence to get the enchants on my items. The game is almost fully voiced! And the voice actors did an incredible job! Nothing to say here, it was perfect. Sound design is great! Attacks felt powerful, shades with their last breath were spooky, water splashes were watery, etc... The mid: This is very personal but I'm not into pirate stuff, and a huge part of the game is on a pirate island with lots of pirates doing pirate things. If you like that, good for you, you'll probably love Bilgewater. If you don't, heh, try to stick to it until you reach the Shadow Isles. I felt like the colors of the game were kind of dull. There's a lot of colors, but somehow, it felt washed out, darkened and foggy. Like there's a filter on it. Musics are fine I guess. I didn't really notice anything in particular. I wished dialogues portrait had more than only one portrait for each character. Luckily most dialogues had incredible voice acting so we could tell what the characters were feeling, but the lack of expressions on the portrait was disappointing. There are some backtracking that were annoying. Like needing a specific character that isn't in your team to unlock some secrets but to get this character, you have to walk back to a Rest Point that is very far and then walk back again to a secret that isn't worth it. Fast travel are okayish, but not every map has it and there's a lot of walking involved. It felt like a waste of time when we had to backtrack. It makes sense for lore reasons maybe, but for a game, it's just annoying. The bad: The game lacks polish. Lots of small bugs and graphic shenanigans. Individualy, they aren't that annoying, but there are so much of them that you can't help but feel frustrated or notice how bad it looks. Several times, I had to quit the game and restart it because of a black screen when changing map or a fight with an immortal ennemy. It happened at the last boss fight and it really put me out of it. Shadows are badly done and feel kind of random. Elevators cast a shadow when they shoudn't. Lights are visible behind walls. Invisible walls, lots of them. Some side quests will be available and even have tracking on your world map but you can't start them unless you reach a certain point in the main story. I wasted a lot of time trying to comprehend why I couldn't start that specific quest, look for answers on the internet and realize that I had to continue the main story before actually starting the quest. The menu is meh. Consumables menu is bad and worse during fight. And I still don't know how the sorting works. It feels random. - I liked the game, and I'm glad that I finished the game after 30 hours. A longer game would have been really frustrating with the lack of polish. I do hope there will be more of this kind of RPG though from Riot Games. Runeterra is a huge world and there are plenty of things to explore and discover. I wouldn't mind another game in the same style. I actually hope there will be some in the near future!

Nothing ground-breaking, but it's fun and well-written, with plenty of interesting synergies between the characters.

4/5 - Overall a fun experience and game. Not perfect as it felt like it lacked polish and could have used some real cinematics to go with the story. I enjoyed the combat the most and typically used a team of Braum (taunt machine), Illaoi (tentacles+heals) and Yasuo (dps). Hope to see more turn-based RPGs from Airship Syndicate and Riot.

It's not a bad game, but I didn't think it was a good game either. I found the story and plot pacing tedious and I didn't enjoy the combat or the dialogue enough to keep playing the game. Combat and dialogue makes up most of time spent in the game. Ratings: Overall 4.5/10 Graphics 5/10 Sound 7/10 Combat 4/10 Story & Dialogue 4/10 Pacing 4/10

Loved the game. The (art style) storytelling is really well done. I’m loving it. The atmosphere and tone are spot on. I’m playing on the highest difficulty, and the battles are tough in a good way. They make you think and plan, which is really fun! Fights can get a little repetitive at times, and yeah, the game’s still a bit buggy in some areas (especially with those enchanted forges), but overall, it’s super enjoyable. P.S.: Don’t play League of Legends after. Actually… just don’t play League of Legends at all. 😂 But get this game instead!

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

For the league averse, just ignore that and play this game anyway. Sharing much in common with it's stepbrother predecessor Battlechasers: Nightwar, Ruined King is a fantastic 30-odd hour love letter to turn based RPGs. +Extremely well paced with little filler +Well defined characters where every ability serves a purpose +Strong art design and voice acting -Forgettable story and music (I'm also not deep into LoL lore) -A bit glitchy, experienced a few crashes

THE GOOD - Innovative combat: very unique turn-based system with a refreshing haste/power mechanic. given an ability, you can improve its speed for damage or vice versa and many mobs are very well-designed around this core mechanic - League accurate abilities: playable characters' abilities are consistent with their MOBA counterparts, with creative adaptations for this game, especially their dungeon/passive abilities - Environment: visually appealing and strong focus on world-building - Cutscenes: love the art style in them THE MID - Fast Travel: not time-efficient due to "thematic" restrictions (e.g. gondolas, ships), some dungeons forces you to walk for minutes to backtrack - Gold/Variety: gold is not very useful; pots and gear are easily found in chests through the gameplay. Shops feel unimpactful, and more gear variety is desired - Fishing: mechanically speaking - bland and repetitive. there's like 30 type of fish and some of them will take hours to find, yet they all do the same things. THE BAD - Bugs: bugs can ruin gameplay, these are the frustrating ones to watch out for: = Mistwalkers in Pyke's ultimate quest may not trigger when killed and won't respawn, locking you from completing the quest (I recommend saving before and checking after killing each one) = Fishing animation glitches (fixable by saving/reloading) = Minor bugs with chest/enchantments not correctly checking off on the map

if you like league of legends, you'll probably enjoy this. i liked the game a lot more when it forced you to include certain members in your party and you had to build your team around them. i wish that certain characters got a little more story to them but other than that i really enjoyed the lore as you don't get too much just playing league of legends. really cool art too.