Elven legacy collection review5/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The Holy Inquisition, inspired by the clerics of the kingdom of New Tixus, acts swiftly to intervene in the seemingly hopeless cause of preventing the world’s slide into darkness and madness.Īt the forefront is Alfred Brennock, the Archmage supreme, who alone is mastered in the arcane arts, and who alone can save the lives and the sanity of his Academy pupils. Powerless, the Masters of the Academy of Magic are being driven insane. The relentless wave of demonic magical energy triggered by the death of the demon Farrakh has swept the world and has now reached the free city of Sylent. The era of Elven Legacy is coming to an end. With the renegade mage in their sights, the sorceress Gilwen and ranger-lord Seagate set off together, unaware that beliefs and friendships alike will soon be tested. For the first time in countless years, this ancient race must venture forth and interfere with events transpiring in the lands of man. However, the Elves cannot allow this forbidden knowledge to fall into the hands of others and thus imperil the world. The shadows of destruction begin to loom on the horizon once a human mage uncovers a dark and powerful secret dating back to the remote past of the Elven race. It's a cool cosmetic touch I didn't expect, and with 100 unlockable cards there are many more secrets I haven't unlocked.Elven Legacy Collection includes Elven Legacy and its three add-ons: Magic, Ranger, and Siege For example, turning on some of the earlier bonus cards adds plants, paintings, and other touches to the Resistance Base in Mega Man Zero 3. There are also bonus cards you unlock through playing, and you can activate them to unlock extras in the games themselves. There is a massive gallery of art for all six games, with high-resolution images available to scroll through and enjoy. I would love to see more in-depth bonus features delving into the series' development. My one gripe is it plays it pretty safe: it has exactly the kind of bonus content you've come to expect at this point, and only scratches the surface of the series' history. When a collection has games as strong as these, it lives or dies by the quality of its extra content, and I'm happy to say Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection does. The Zero/ZX art style is a personal favorite, so I found myself swapping out wallpapers fairly regularly just to enjoy a change of scenery. There are also loads of wallpapers to choose from, and I didn't find a bad one in the bunch, to be honest. Capcom, if you're reading this, please patch in a vertical orientation for ZX and ZX Advent in handheld mode! ![]() ![]() Tons of other retro games on Switch support the vertical orientation, including individual games on collections like the SNK 40th Anniversary and SEGA Ages. The two DS games would benefit enormously from compatibility with something like the Flip Grip, a $12 plastic device that allows you to hold the Switch sideways. The ZX games, originally released on DS, have several layout options for the DS' second screen, but there's no portrait mode for use on the Switch, which is a massive bummer. Unfortunately dialogue is largely unskippable, which can be real annoying when you're trying to beat a boss.Īpart from the filters, there are different screen layouts you can choose from, the number of which differs whether you're playing Mega Man Zero or ZX games. It's exactly the kind of corny, jargon-heavy anime storyline I love in my video games. Throughout the entire series there's a lot of talk of cyber-elves and Neo Arcadia, Bio-Metals, Reploids, E-Crystals, sacrifice, and betrayal… in other words, it rules pretty hard. Mega Man ZX and Advent are set even further in the future, in the year 25XX, when humans and Reploids exist in harmony. If you're not familiar with the plot of the Mega Man Zero series, here's a quick rundown: 100 years after the events of the Mega Man X series, legendary warrior Zero is reactivated to help fight in the war between humans and Reploids, a race of human-like robots based on the original Mega Man X. The Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and Steam is even better, because it brings all four of the original Mega Man Zero GBA games and both DS games into one convenient package. Mega Man and Mega Man X are some of my favorite series in all of gaming, but I slept on the Mega Man Zero series when it came to Game Boy Advance starting in 2002 and first realized what I was missing when the Zero Collection came out on DS in 2010. ![]()
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