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103 of 110 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great RPG Gameplay for the PSP, March 27, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
If you're a fan of Baldur's Gate, be sure to try Untold Legends a try. This little RPG even lets you play multiplayer with your PSP-owning friends!
You start out getting to choose your character - for females there are alchemists and berzerkers, for men there are paladins and druid. For each character you can customize skin tone and hair style. Then a few attribute settings and you're off!
You start with the traditional spider-bashing, moving from room to room, chatting with the various NPCs you meet. Soon you're picking up loot, killing larger monsters, and heading off on quests. Yes, these are the things RPGs are made of, but of course what makes this brilliant is that you can carry it along with you, play it whenever you want, and get the great PSP graphics.
Even better, if you have friends with PSPs, you can all adventure together wirelessly, in study hall or on the train or bus! You can truly pass hours at a time without any effort, customizing your character and building up levels.
It's fun to zoom in, but really, you play most of this game zoomed out so you get as much of the map on the screen as possible. The variety of weapons and spells keep things interesting. You could say that a downside is that the game is pretty straightforward and simple - but you really don't want a super-complex game for a handheld. That's what the big consoles are for. This hack and slash is sort of the 'gauntlet' for the PSP - run around alone or with friends, gain some levels, find some nifty cool weapons, and then hit SAVE when your bus gets to where it is going.
Highly recommended!
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Whole lotta gameplay, not much depth...but who cares?, July 3, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
For the most part, Untold Legends has gotten a bad rap from game review sites like Gamespot. Much of their beef has to do with the game's lack of depth...which is a valid criticism. So far I've played Untold Legends for a total of 12 hours and I can barely remember the names of important NPCs, locations or the types of quests I've been on.
But, really, I can say the same for games like Diablo 2 or Fate. . Untold Legends pretends to be one thing and one thing only - an unadulterated dungeon slog. You pick up some weapons and armor, a few power-ups, and go kill stuff. The plot is secondary, maybe even tertiary, to the fighting. And as far as the killing goes, there's plenty of it to do and Sony Online Entertainment makes sure its fun.
Yeah, Diablo 2 had some great cutscenes. I remember playing Diablo 2 just to GET to the next cutscene. You won't find that level of story depth here. The purpose of your quests are simply to get you to the next dungeon so you can kill stuff.
The game is structured much like Diablo. Town is where you go to buy, sell, get quests and receive rewards for a job well done. Most of your non-magical items like weapons and armour are "socketed", and you can enhance these weapons with runes, jewels or skulls to pump up your stats or get special abilities/attacks. Inventory is handled much like Diablo, but with much improvement. You needn't move stuff around just to get more space in your pack. The game handles that for you. Unlike Diablo, you don't have a stash. So saving multiple items that you can't use yet gets to be a pain.
Some pointers - (a) Save and save often. If you die, you go back to the beginning of the dungeon or quest, and lose all your loot and XP in the process. (b) Some bugs here and there. The one that really had me swearing was the "Return to Aven" bug, where the mini-disc just keeps spinning after choosing to return to town. Another reason to save like there's no tomorrow. (c) Any experienced gamer will tell you to NEVER ever barge into a room. Certainly true here. Its easy to get overwhelmed by multiple creatures, especially at the beginning of the game. (d) Don't get frustrated during the first few levels. The difficulty ramps up slowly. Provided some careful distribution of stat points and judicious attention paid to your armour/weapons, you'll be an effective bringer-of-death within short order.
This game really opened my eyes to the potential of the PSP. Lumines and Ridge Racer were wonderful games, but lately they've been boring me. Untold Legends brought new life to my PSP.
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42 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a bad launch title!, March 30, 2005
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Untold Legends is an RPG brought to us by Sony Online Entertainment, the same people that gave us Everquest, EQ2, and Star Wars Galaxies. While this game is not anywhere near as in depth as those games, it is a fun, light, roleplaying game, and the only one available at the launch of the PSP. It's really not even in the same vein as the afore-mentioned titles, and really owes a debt to Blizzard's Diablo line of games, as it plays nearly identical. Choose between 4 character classes, various modifications to appearance and skills, and off you go. The game offers quests and spells and dungeons to explore and equipment to loot and buy and sell, as well as providing fairly impressive graphics for a handheld game.
Untold Legends is a perfect RPG for people like me, with a little time to kill on the train ride home, or late at night in bed when you can't fall asleep.
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