Might and Magic X is a role-playing video game developed by Limbic Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth installment in the long-running Might and Magic series, and it was released in 2014. The game is set in the fictional world of Ashan, which has been featured in previous games of the franchise. In Might and Magic X, players create and control a party of adventurers who explore the lands of Ashan, completing quests, battling monsters, and unraveling the mysteries of the world. The game features turn-based combat, where players take turns issuing commands to their characters, and real-time exploration, where they traverse through dungeons, forests, and other environments. One of the key features of Might and Magic X is its open-world nature.
Through a turn-based gameplay system, defeat creatures and unique
bosses and accomplish unique quests, level up your group and gain new
powerful artifacts.
Through a turn-based gameplay system, defeat creatures and unique bosses and accomplish unique quests, level up your group and gain new powerful artifacts. It doesn t exactly make the experience easy, but such a balanced party grants a solid starting point for novice players seeking to experiment with classes in future playthroughs.
One of the key features of Might and Magic X is its open-world nature. Players can freely explore the game world, undertaking quests and encountering various non-playable characters (NPCs) along the way. The game offers a large and detailed world, filled with secrets to uncover and treasures to find.
Might and Magic X: Legacy Review
Might and Magic X: Legacy makes me feel as though I'm back in high school. (For reference, it’s been a while.) I enjoy when it nudges me into turn-based battles on tiled maps and pitted me against spiders in a well, but I despise it when its stuttering performance and pop-in textures remind me of the clunker PC I had back in the '90s. Good thing, then, that Legacy delivers an old-school fantasy roleplaying game experience that's so authentic and earnest that its payoff is just as worth enduring the technical shortcomings as its ancestors were.
Loading PlayRarely do modern RPGs allow such a high degree of freedom. The only real tutorials or direction involve convincing an NPC to tag along and spout commentary as you pass different services, and when you venture into the world beyond the starter town, Legacy grants you the liberty to bumble into zones your party's ill-prepared for. It's a smart design that left me keenly aware of my limits and added variety to the dirty work of leveling and allocating stats to my four heroes. That in itself delivers one of Legacy's primary challenges, as it allows multiple opportunities to create shoddy party makeups out of the 12 possible race and class combinations while also offering the freedom to make optimal parties capable of handling most struggles with ease.
Yet Legacy's not entirely ruthless. Should you wish, you can start out with a perfectly capable boilerplate party with a tank, warrior, ranger, and freemage. It doesn't exactly make the experience easy, but such a balanced party grants a solid starting point for novice players seeking to experiment with classes in future playthroughs. Indeed, tinkering with my party makeup will be what I remember most about Legacy a month from now, as it has little patience for story. It’s frontloaded with with an oh-so-grand cinematic crammed with fallen angels and epic battles, while the business of the actual action centers on a band of raiders just “out to make a name for themselves.” Legacy emphasizes the contrast further by making their mission no more complex than delivering their warrior mentor's ashes to a distant temple across a landscape where spiders, naga, and chimeras huddle together as thickly as grease on bacon. The approach succeeds, largely because such a humble undertaking means you're not caught up in matters of world import, which means Legacy neatly escapes such disconnects as Commander Shepard's leisurely jaunts throughout the galaxy while Earth's fate rests in his/her hands.
It usually matters little, however, since Legacy concerns itself with combat over all else. This may be a more complete RPG experience than the similar Legend of Grimrock, but it's a comparative stranger to story-heavy fantasy romps like Dragon Age II. Nail-biting challenges present themselves as early as the first spiders you meet, who hit hard and all but slather your party in venom that can only be cleansed with the antidotes that drop afterward. Most of the time enemies gang up on you, either lobbing poison at you or, later, countering every dodge with a free hit. Progression itself is slow in the first few hours, particularly as you'll have to trek back to town frequently to stock up and rest. And this, mind you, is on the novice-friendly Adventurer mode that allows you to take along a preset party of balanced heroes; even greater changes wait on the punishing Warrior mode.
Loading PlayAll this would spoil the experience of Legacy in less capable hands, but developer Limbic Entertainment usually gives you access to the skills you need to succeed. What tactical gameplay exists springs from its careful use of gridded exploration, which encourages such strategies as luring enemies down narrow paths and blasting them with area-of-effect spells. Elsewhere, Legacy adds variety by sprinkling in simple puzzles that might reveal secret passageways. Mindless hacking and slashing tends to get you nowhere; instead, Legacy comes into its own when it lets you use a freemage's air spell to knock an enemy two tiles away and out of the range of an endangered melee fighter, or smartly training skills so non-freemages also have a chance to heal. Even warriors get their own bundle of "spells" here, allowing them to taunt foes or deflect hits and thus keep squishy members kicking. The approach usually works well, particularly since Legacy's dungeons were designed with such tactics in mind.
The same approach doesn't work as well in the outer world, which Limbic blanketed with the same grid you find in the interiors. Legacy might look like a modern open-world game, but it forces you to move about like Robocop's ED-209 rather than an agile medieval wanderer. What worked so well in the cramped passageways of caves and dungeons proves tiresome when exploring. Think you've got that distant ogre right where you want him for your mage? Nah, Legacy thinks he's still around a corner. Think your archer's got a clear shot of that goblin right in front of you? Hardly – that tiny stone between the two is apparently blocking the shot. It probably wouldn't be so bad if so much of Legacy's action didn't take place in the wilds, but as it is, in time it even sours the pleasures of scouring the landscape for buff fountains and hidden treasure chests.
Loading PlayAt least the landscape's usually worth looking at, even if its faux-retro graphics did occasionally tax my PC (which handled the better-looking Final Fantasy XIV: A Real Reborn on high settings) with long loading times and split-second freezes even on medium settings. Bothersome, too, is Legacy's insistence on forcing you to connect with Ubisoft's Uplay service, as the only impact it had on my playthrough were warnings that I couldn't play my single-player RPG because Uplay was down.
But for me, what matters is that I wanted to keep playing, and judging from the recent appearances of The Banner Saga and Blackguards, developers are realizing that there's a hunger for this kind of turn-based gridded play that hasn't been satiated in recent years. Neither of those two games come so close to capturing this style of RPG in its purest essence as Might and Magic X: Legacy, however, and it doesn't hurt that Legacy has mod support.
Verdict
Might and Magic X: Legacy marks a welcome break from the contemporary focus on story-driven RPGs by delivering gridded turn-based combat that largely works. The approach doesn't work as well in the exploration of the open world, unfortunately, and the experience as a whole suffers from optimization issues. But as an old-school dungeon crawling experience that doesn't shy away from punishing you for errors, Legacy usually delivers.
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The character customization in Might and Magic X is extensive, allowing players to create a party of adventurers with different classes, skills, and abilities. Each class has its strengths and weaknesses, and players can specialize their characters in different ways to form a well-rounded party. The game also incorporates puzzle-solving elements, where players must use their wits to overcome obstacles and find hidden paths. These puzzles can range from simple riddles to complex mechanisms that require careful observation and experimentation. The graphics of Might and Magic X are rendered in a retro style, reminiscent of the earlier games in the series. While not cutting-edge, the visuals effectively capture the atmosphere of the game world and provide a nostalgic charm for long-time fans. Overall, Might and Magic X is a solid addition to the long-running franchise. It offers a vast and immersive world, deep character customization, and challenging gameplay. Whether you are a fan of the series or new to the franchise, Might and Magic X is a game that is worth exploring..
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1. Emily - 2/5 stars - I was really disappointed with Might and Magic X. The graphics were outdated and the gameplay felt clunky and unrefined. The story also didn't captivate me, and I found it hard to connect with the characters. Overall, it just felt like a step back from previous entries in the series. I wouldn't recommend it to fans of the franchise.
2. Steve - 1/5 stars - Might and Magic X was a complete letdown for me. The game felt like a cheap cash grab, with repetitive quests and lackluster combat. The world was bland and lacked depth, and I found myself quickly losing interest. It's a shame, because I had high hopes for this game, but it just didn't deliver in any aspect.
3. Jessica - 2/5 stars - I found Might and Magic X to be extremely frustrating and not worth the time or money. The controls were clunky and unintuitive, and the difficulty was unbalanced. The game also suffered from numerous bugs and glitches that made it almost unplayable at times. The overall experience left me feeling frustrated and disappointed, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone looking for a satisfying RPG experience.