One would think that because Legends of Exidia resembles old school console rpgs with its side missions and lots of button mashing, it would be totally epic. Unfortunately, it’s not epic, but it does a great job of taking you back to the 2D gaming days where you had hard puzzles to solve and missions to fulfill.
Legends of Exidia is game where you are thrown immediately into a couple of tasks from your village as well as given the option to solve issues with other civilians. Afterwards, you’re thrust into battle with demons, kings, banshees and a pretty badass dragon. All this happens while you are trying to accomplish quests with the love of your life in both present and past.
Legends of Exidia is short–really short. It’ll be even shorter if you choose to not take any of the side quests. On the upside, the side quests are pretty fun and can help you gain experience.
Playing Legends of Exidia is actually very simple, but there are a few perplexing elements. For example, as mentioned, the game is over too quickly, so you won’t get the chance to memorize the button layout (which results in lots of button mashing.) Additionally, there are far too many items for such a short game. What I mean by this is that you can’t upgrade all the way up to maximum levels to wear the top tier armor and weapons.
On top of that, the game tries to prolong itself by telling you things like, “It is recommended that you be level 32 or above before proceeding” to encourage grinding. You level up in the traditional RPG fashion: by completing quests and killing giant blobs, wraiths, giant bats, orcs, and other nasties.
Legends of Exidia lacks voice acting, which isn’t a negative because the dialogue is extremely cheesy. The score features fairly generic RPG music that harkens back to the 16-bit era.
The graphics resemble the fantasy settings of Golden Axe 2 quite a bit. That made it for me as I always loved that game and got through it with relative ease. Those of you that miss that game may want to spend the $8 on downloading this.
Legend of Exidia isn’t a bad game by any mean–it’s just a tad ho hum, and very short. Give it a play if you’re an old school RPG fan, otherwise you may find yourself in search of a meatier title.
