Arcane Legends is the latest entry into the Spacetime Studios stable of mobile MMOs. We've taken Arcane Legends on the road to see how it measures up. Find out in our official review, then leave us your comments.

Arcane Legends, Spacetime Studios’ latest cross-platform mobile MMO was actually released earlier than they had planned. The game was leaked somehow, so they made the decision to release it early on Android and Chrome Play on November 13. Then a couple of weeks later, it appeared in the iTunes store as well. At start, it capped at 15 levels. Their update the week before Christmas almost doubled the world with new areas, new bosses and six more levels.

Read more of Carolyn Koh's Arcane Legends: Totally Playable & Absolutely Fun.

It baffles me why people are still playing games which looks like they were created a decade ago and give it a 8/10 score in "aesthetics". 

Aesthetics is not independent of graphics you know. A game from a decade ago might have looked great then but certainly would not, in most peoples eyes, do today.

Yamato, you literally do not understand what you are talking about.  Mobile games are designed with severe hardware limitations.  Aesthetics are not about how many special effects or post processing filters you use.  It's about good, clean, functional art which is possible within the bounds of hardware on a given device.

By your standard, if a game doesn't look like Farcry 3 (even on mobile devices!?!) then they should all be rated 1 in aesthetics.  You do realize that simple cartoons can be aesthetically appeasing don't you?

Originally posted by Yamota

It baffles me why people are still playing games which looks like they were created a decade ago and give it a 8/10 score in "aesthetics". 

Aesthetics is not independent of graphics you know. A game from a decade ago might have looked great then but certainly would not, in most peoples eyes, do today.

A game on a phone from a decade ago wouldn't look like this. This isn't a review of a PC game where graphical limitations aren't as low, this is a review of a game made for tablets and phones. Keeping that in mind, yes the aesthetics score is fairly accurate. If it were for a PC game you would have a point. 

Playing it on my Sony Xperia S !  Very fun^^

If you all like this game i suggest you to try "Dark Legends"... a vampire clone as good as this one!

How good a game looks has nothing to do with the amount of polygons used, but what you are doing with them.

Originally posted by Anireth

How good a game looks has nothing to do with the amount of polygons used, but what you are doing with them.

 

 Exactly. Some old 2D games look far more stylish than the 3D games of today. GW2 runs on a pretty low polygon count by todays standards, but the artwork more than makes up for it.

Are paintings less impressive if you use less brush strokes? Or less colours? The answer is the same for game graphics, it depends on how it is utilised.

Anyone have a link to the APK?  My Kindle Fire can't get Google Play and Amazon Store doesn't have it yet.

Found it:

http://account.spacetimestudios.com/download

Originally posted by Yamota

It baffles me why people are still playing games which looks like they were created a decade ago and give it a 8/10 score in "aesthetics". 

Aesthetics is not independent of graphics you know. A game from a decade ago might have looked great then but certainly would not, in most peoples eyes, do today.

Cartoonish lowpoly is an art style on its own.  SOE's Free Realms is a decent example.  A Mystical Land is another.  Aeria's Eden Eternal as well.

Aesthetics does not demand a game look like TERA, GW2 or PS2.  It's simply an application of an art style in a 3D environment.

Originally posted by Yamota

It baffles me why people are still playing games which looks like they were created a decade ago and give it a 8/10 score in "aesthetics". 

Aesthetics is not independent of graphics you know. A game from a decade ago might have looked great then but certainly would not, in most peoples eyes, do today.

Aesthetics is a personal thing. A lot of people talk about "beautiful pixel art", which I dan't understand, as that art looks bad to me. Still, it's a fact. A review is just the opinion of a person. That opinion may be different than yours but it's still valid.

Also I find that I'm more tolerant of low-res graphics on my tablet than on my PC.

Originally posted by Yamota

It baffles me why people are still playing games which looks like they were created a decade ago and give it a 8/10 score in "aesthetics". 

Aesthetics is not independent of graphics you know. A game from a decade ago might have looked great then but certainly would not, in most peoples eyes, do today.

 

I could not agree more.  I looked at that score for aethetics and said WTF?  It DOES look like a 10 year old game.  Maybe I'm a jaded gamer.  Maybe I just expect for than others.. even still, I see some of the final scores these kiddie games get, on an MMO site, and wonder how the hell they get such high scores.

I want an MMO with Farcry 3 graphics.  Enough said.

Amazing game,this is one of my best collection of games now.

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