Dragon Age: Legends is Bioware’s version of a Facebook game that they like to call ‘the first real Facebook game. After playing it, I can’t verify their claims, but I was impressed with the game. DA Legends is a turn based RPG mixed with a meta-game of building up a castle that allows you to craft items you desperate need on your journey to become legendary. DA:L features a strategic battle system, a robust castle/craft system, and a sprinkle of cash shop, making this a very solid game.
Upon starting the game you are prompted to create a character. You can create a rogue, warrior, and mage as well as a choice between male and female. They give you a few face shapes and good helping of skin and hair color. After creating my savvy female rogue I went through a quick tutorial that shows you the inner working of the game how the game works. From walking you through combat by providing tips on digesting the information on the UI, how to attack, use skills and tips on using various items, and explaining how to build your castle. It also sets you up with an apothecary and a worker to make your items. Outside your castle you are greeted with a simple painted map with direction lines that leads your character along a path to various points that, when reached, you either have to fight or pick up a reward.
In the encounters you are greeted with multiple waves of enemies each with their own weakness and strong points. Following RPG traditions you’ll want to keep in mind what mobs are weak too and which poise the most risk to your party. It’s very important to develop a strategy because you have a set number of items that you can use in a fight. You have the ability to set items on your skill bars when you fight. Five slots for defensive items and 5 slots for offensive items. You can’t set the same item on different slots so whatever items you do slot you only get to use them five times in a encounter no matter how many you have in your inventory. So as you start out start out you will have 5 health potions and 5 mana potions to use throughout the fight. Nothing worse than fighting spiders that poison you’re team grinding away their health each turn that passes because you didn’t take them out first or CC them down until you could properly take care of them. Once you use up five of your items, that’s it! Don’t be surprised to find yourself plowing through them and having 2 waves of monsters to fight. You could find yourself on the losing end. Not only do you lose but you have to do the encounter from the beginning and all the items you used before hand are gone forever. You may have to retreat back in the castle and wait it out while your workers craft more potions for you.
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