Ripped straight from Onimusha, you’ll be collecting a lot of orbs. Kill something, suck the soul bubble that comes from the dead, and move on. Red is health, blue is mana, and yellow is essence. In another stroke of genius the yellow orbs raise your “Essence” which essentially gets rid of any need for any kind of store. Your gear never changes, all you do is apply Essence crap to your stuff and it upgrades magically. You can also use this stuff on friends you meet along the way to boost their meager abilities. You won’t be able to use this stuff all the time though, as you’ll be confined to upgrading only at certain checkpoints. There’s never any shortage of any of these orbs so you’ll rarely be lacking for an upgrade or near death.


That's a mighty big axe.
Besides running around and kill things, you’ll also spend quite a bit of time during your 15 hour quest doing tiny quests. For the most part you’ll be just looking for switches but on some occasions you’ll have to solve an actually puzzle or two. Most are standard affair from the last two decades of gaming and will likely leave a bad taste in gamers’ mouths.

From a technical standpoint the graphics actually look decent when they’re not crawling across the screen at 2 frames a second. Player models look more detailed than when they were first shown and attack effects look fun when they don’t crawl to a standstill. The sound is ok at best and the voice acting is borderline terrible. Add on the fact that there is no motion sensing Sixaxis support at all and you’ve got quite a clunker.


"Game Experience May Change During Online Play" Ummm... kind of.
I suppose the only saving grace of Untold Legends is the online experience which like it’s PSP cousin it probably the only reason to play. Grab any save game you have from your single player time and head online with up to four players to play from that save point. Then once you’re done online, save things and you can start up online or offline from that point whenever you please.


They got tired of slowdown and gave up.
From the experience killing bugs, to the last-gen graphics, and the unfinished gameplay I would say skip this one entirely. That is unless you’re an Action RPG freak who has the ability to play online. Then maybe you can rent it or borrow it from a friend for a few hours.

• Online play

• Collision bugs
  
• Slowdown all over the place
  
• Shallow gameplay
  
• Last-gen graphics