Legendary Creatures 2
- October 17, 2023
- HideChara
Get on Steam"Legendary Creatures 2" is a role-playing game with a randomly generated open world, offering a unique experience each playthrough. Create your own skill combinations and make use of the elaborate equipment system to defeat various creatures and the demon lord. With dozens of unique creatures to collect and train, as well as modding and facilities to unlock, this game provides plenty of content for players to explore.
PC
Steam Deck
Windows
Reviews
- The game features a wide variety of unit types and offers an interesting spin on the auto-battler genre, making it addictive and fun.
- Beautiful pixel graphics and a charming visual style enhance the overall experience, providing clarity in gameplay.
- The game is regularly updated by active developers, which adds to its replayability and keeps the gameplay fresh.
- The game suffers from translation issues and a quirky interface that can detract from the overall experience.
- Progression feels slow and unrewarding, with many unlocks not providing significant improvements or excitement.
- The gameplay loop can become repetitive over time, leading to a lack of long-term engagement.
- gameplay24 mentions
- 42 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The gameplay is characterized by a solid and simple loop that involves building a party, exploring randomly-generated maps, and defeating a demon lord, which keeps the experience engaging despite some repetitive goals. Players appreciate the variety of characters, builds, and itemization, allowing for experimentation with strategies, although the mid-game grind for materials can feel tedious. While the game has some flaws, such as translation issues and a need for more content, it remains enjoyable, especially for fans of the auto-battler genre.
“While the gameplay seems to be simple, it has a good variety of characters, builds, and itemization that manages to keep new games interesting.”
“If you're a fan of the auto-battler gameplay loop, the game is surprisingly complex in terms of units and their abilities, as well as items, so it's fun to experiment and play around with different strategies.”
“The gameplay loop here is solid and simple: build yourself a party, traverse the randomly-generated map, and eventually defeat the demon lord to win.”
“The core gameplay is a bit repetitive in terms of your goal, but the new unlocks with each playthrough even that out.”
“Big fan of auto battlers, but the gameplay loop has a tedious midphase where you are just grinding for materials to upgrade your units in hopes of finding a winning combination.”
“Obviously the game needs more content and scenarios in the future like new maps, new mechanics, units, bosses, etc.”
- graphics6 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 17 % neutral mentions
- 17 % negative mentions
The game features beautiful pixel graphics that are charming and provide clear visual representation of the map, units, and items. However, it is noted that the visuals rely heavily on premade assets, giving it an "asset dump" feel. Overall, the graphics are well-received, especially considering the game's low price tag.
“The visuals are good, the graphics are charming, and it provides visual clarity of the map, units, and items.”
“Beautiful pixel graphics enhance the overall experience of the game.”
“The graphics are vibrant and contribute significantly to the game's atmosphere.”
“First thing to note: this game is very much an asset dump, using a lot of premade sprites and graphics.”
- replayability4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game offers significant replayability due to the vast array of units available from the start, allowing players to experiment with different party combinations. Each unit features unique skills and can learn from two distinct archetype pools as they level up, enhancing the potential for varied gameplay experiences.
“There are a ridiculous amount of units to pick from, most of which are unlocked from the start, providing a lot of replayability as you experiment with different parties.”
“Each unit has their own unique skill and as you level them up they pull skills they can learn from a pool of two different archetypes (example: warrior/smasher, ranger/musketeer, tank/juggernaut, etc.), further adding to the replay value.”
- grinding4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players appreciate grindy games but express frustration with the excessive time required to earn rewards, particularly noting that spending 2-3 hours on a run often yields insufficient resources for meaningful progress. The midgame grind for materials to upgrade units is seen as tedious, detracting from the overall enjoyment of the gameplay loop.
“I'm a fan of grindy games, but to spend 2-3 hours on a successful run and not even get enough crystals for a single unlock hurts a bit.”
“Big fan of auto battlers, but the gameplay loop has a tedious mid-phase where you are just grinding for materials to upgrade your units in hopes of finding a winning combination.”
- story2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Users express a desire for a more robust story experience, highlighting the need for additional events and quests within the campaign to enhance engagement. There is hope for future updates to address this shortcoming.
- optimization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game's optimization is generally solid, with users noting only minor performance issues when scrolling out on the map.
“The only small issue was the game performance when you scroll out on the map.”
- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 150 % negative mentions
The game experiences frequent freezing issues, significantly impacting stability and overall gameplay experience.
“The game frequently freezes, making it unplayable.”
“I experience constant freezing issues that disrupt my gameplay.”
“The game is plagued by freezing problems that ruin the experience.”
- music2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The music in the game is characterized as soothing, which players find essential for enhancing their experience, particularly during extended gameplay sessions.
“The soothing music is important because I need a lot of time to relax.”
