Minecraft has been a behemoth in the gaming world for over a decade. The block-building game has become one of the best selling and most played titles of all time, and so it’s no surprise that it also spawned a variety of spinoff entries. We’ve seen narrative adventures such as Minecraft Story Mode, the augmented reality of Minecraft Earth, and most recently the action-RPG Minecraft Dungeons. The newest spinoff to bring the world of Minecraft into new territory is Minecraft Legends, a third-person action game where you command armies to defend villages and assault strongholds. Like Dungeons, this is a simplified version of a strategy genre meant to be accessible to younger audiences, but in this case that’s not enough of an excuse for its many missteps.
Minecraft Legends tells a simple story of a randomly generated Minecraft world where you, the hero player with a customizable avatar, is tasked with defending it against an invading army of evil piglins from the Nether. These cute but dangerous pig characters have setup portals and small castles across the land, and your task is to destroy each one to stop the invasion. Under the guidance of three Host characters – oddly named Foresight, Action, and Knowledge – you’ll traverse the open world to gather a friendly army and take them into battle. The world features a few minimalistic friendly villages that all look the same, and three groups of three enemy bases, each with a certain type of enemy. Destroying each group…
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