Achilles: Legends Untold Reviews
Although with fantastic visuals and a very much promising setting, “Achilles: Legends Untold” stumbles hard to fulfill its ambitions due to a very slow and clunky combat system.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Achilles: Legends Untold brings a character many of us have written off back for an intriguing adventure, despite overselling their combat system.
All things considered, Achilles: Legends Untold is by no means a bad game. It ticks a lot of the boxes you’d look for in a soulslike, with robust combat, a cool world to explore, and challenging bosses. The issue is the repetitive nature of the game. After a while, each dungeon will look the same. Each combat encounter will feel slow and methodical. While the handful of enemy types on offer will wear extremely thin. The game also suffers from a bit of an identity crisis. It isn’t quite sure if it wants to be a Diablo-style looter/ dungeon crawler, or an isometric soulslike. The result is it ends up being a little of both, without doing either particularly well. That being said, developer Darkpoint Games deserves praise for showing an impressive amount of affection for the source material. Fans of Ancient Greek mythology, as well as Diablo or soulslikes, could do a lot worse than checking this game out. Just don’t expect much innovation.
Overall Achilles: Legends Untold is a very enjoyable and short adventure that will give a satisfying dose to both Diablo die-hards and those who want to try something different, but at the same time familiar.
Review in Greek | Read full review
Achilles: Legends Untold didn't set out to reinvent the wheel and go for the less risky approach by emulating previous successes, in which it succeeded, to a degree.
Those who do like games like Dungeon Siege and other loot-heavy games may be disappointed to find that for a game that looks like a looter… it isn’t. You get a new weapon now and then, but it isn’t the cornucopia of loot that drops in games like Diablo. It’s a new sword every once in a while and little else. But hey, the one-on-one combat is pretty great, and it does work rather well as a game to play while listening to podcasts as it is rather mindless fun!
Achilles Legends Untold is a game that is brimming with the potential to be an incredible action RPG. However, in its current state, it is a game featuring a poor story, mediocre combat, and a bland empty world in conjunction with a litany of bugs that make the game more tedious than it should be.