Minecraft Legendsis an interesting prospect.

For Dungeons, this meant transforming the game into a hack-and-slash action RPG.

(The final game will support 4vs4 and 2vs2 as well, I gather.)

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It’s simple but quite compulsive, and there are some interesting decisions that I really liked.

The maps are pretty roomy, for example, with lots of wilderness spaces in between objectives.

I wandered about, admired the new gentle Cel-shading, wondering what I might find.

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Of course Allays will slowly deconstruct mountains for you, harvesting stone or coal.

Of course Creepers will be jerks on the battlefield.

And there’s that touch of wildness, too, which seems to be so central to Minecraft itself.

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The world is filled with distractions, possible dangers, and the chance for something unexpected to happen.

Because ultimately it’s still Minecraft.

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