The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story is a new project among Riot’s projects that aims to expand the fan base of the League of Legends title by offering games with different classifications and experiences, and here we present to you a review of this game and a better idea of ​​what it offers.

The Story and Characters

The events of the game take us to the kingdom of Demacia with a story that focuses on the magician Sylas, whose escape plan is successful after many years of captivity to begin his revolution against this kingdom that has oppressed magicians for many decades, whereby The story will focus on Sylas’ motive behind his revolution and whether his desire for revenge will overwhelm his desire for something… justice and this revolution will pit him against a number of other heroic characters appearing in the world of League of Legends.

Dialogue and Character Development

The game’s story is predictable and events are easy to predict. Still, the emphasis is on dialogues with the characters and encouraging the player to have some side conversations to give more depth to the characters, make the characters more superficial and at the same time prove the player’s expectations of the role of each character, since there are many characters gives. It is superfluous and does not play a significant role, and the character of Sylas does not develop as desired over the course of the story, and we will not explain this aspect to avoid spoilers.

Art Direction and Music

The game’s art direction is based on pixel graphics, giving it a classic feel, with good music accompanying what’s happening on the screen, including battles and dialogues with the characters. The various effects related to magical attacks were implemented excellently.

Gameplay and Abilities

The game system is simple and divided into two parts. In the first part, Sylas Chains are used to attack enemies with the ability to perform quick attacks and heavy attacks that deal higher damage. Syals Chains can be used to steal the magical abilities of opponents is the second part of the gaming experience. A certain amount of time passes before you can steal the ability. The game follows a system similar to rock, paper and scissors. Magical attacks are based on one of 6 different elements, and between these elements there are two opposing elements, so one strongly influences the other, while the other elements deal moderate damage.

The gameplay experience is fun as the enemies have diverse magical abilities and require different strategies to deal with each of them as well as using their abilities against other enemies with opposite abilities. There are also enemies that do not have magical abilities and can benefit from magic to defeat them faster. After stealing a magical ability, you can purchase it and add it to your list of fixed magical abilities when you return to the rebel base you are in. You can also further develop your character’s abilities and send a number of your powerful wizard companions on side missions, to gather more resources or recruit more rebels to your ranks.

Side Missions and Boss Encounters

In addition to the main story missions, the game features a number of side missions, slightly different in nature from the main missions. Many of these missions are more like challenges that test the player’s skills with the ability to use magical abilities. This has a side effect that gives you a certain advantage when it comes to the difficulty of these missions and the Type of enemies to keep up with. Over the course of the gameplay you will face, the game will feature many excellent and entertaining boss encounters, and you will be able to replay these encounters at a later point in the experience to improve your skills. It can be said that the difficulty level is generally balanced, providing the desired challenge most of the time, and we rarely felt like there was an imbalance in this.

Repetition and Dodge Feature

At the level of gaming experience, the biggest drawback is the annoying repetition in the design of the stages, to the point that in many stages, when looking at the map, the player realizes that he is revisiting the same maps, but with different “decorations” and in different order, nothing more, especially in the side missions, some of which are almost an identical copy of the others. Lastly, it’s worth mentioning that the dodge feature doesn’t work while controlling attacks with chains, which is annoying, especially during confrontations with some bosses where you only have a short window of time to dodge some of their quick attacks.

Conclusion

We finished the experience after 9 hours of play, focusing heavily on the main missions and completing some side missions. It can be said that it will take you around 13 hours to complete the entire experience. Overall we can say that the game is well entertaining and offers a number of nice ideas. Many of the game’s negative aspects are acceptable compared to what it offers. Of the positives, however, it was strange to us that the story aspect is so weak in a game that aims to expand League of Legends’ fan base and draw fans into its worlds and stories.