MU Legend is an MMORPG developed and published by Webzen. Being this, a sequel to MU Online. Originally it was going to be called MU2, but then it was announced in 2004 that it would be called MU Legend. Its development took a while to begin, starting in 2009. MU Legend presents four different classes of characters, each with unique abilities. You can choose between Blader, Dark Lord, War Mage or Whisperer. As in the previous installment of MU, you level up by fighting and killing enemies from the maps, gaining experience and unlocking new and powerful abilities. Collect items from the ground to make or upgrade equipment and join the army alone or with friends, to face innumerable hordes of enemies in dark dungeons.
MU Legend has a clan system, mission system, skill tree and different game modes, and dungeons along the maps.
Main features of MU Legend:
• Unique character classes: choose from four different classes, each with powerful abilities, strengths and playing styles.
• Excellent graphics: enjoy 3D graphics without problems through Unreal Engine 3.
• RPG elements: enjoy traditional role-playing elements, such as skill trees and missions, artfully mixed with the hack-and-slack game.
• Randomized dungeons: dynamic dungeons adjust their difficulty to the levels of the characters.
Webzen wants MU Legend to be his definitive RPG (so to speak). Cathartic combat takes over the game, breaking down armies of enemies, combined with dungeon immersion and personalization of skills. The game is full of flashy effects, NPC's grouped in cities waiting the moment when you need to contact them for some reason. So, the big question is: Is it worth investing my time in this MMORPG? Now we will discover it.
There are five kinds of characters to choose from (the fifth is not available for now) and all have their own difficulty and playability. The customization is limited: some presets for hair and face that do not differ too much, although you can choose any color you want for your character.
When you create the character you can have a view of it using high-level armor to see how it can be seen in the future, although, it is important to note that these armor will not get them soon. Starting the game each character has a few rags to cover.
• Dark Lord: The infamous Dark Lord of MU Legend, equipped with a shield for an extraordinary defense, made to lead battles in the first line. Leader in the liberation of the humans of the Ashas, he sacrificed his humanity in exchange for great power. The Dark Lord uses a scepter and a shield to support the team. In addition, it has skills that help improve the combat efficiency of teams. The Dark Lord uses a scepter and a shield to recover and support abilities, and is instrumental in increasing the combat effectiveness of the partys. Alternatively, his shield can be given in favor of a two-handed hammer that is optimized to deal damage. This allows the Dark Lord to use powerful area attacks and crowd control to raze battlefields.
• Blader: The Blader is MU's fiercest warrior, trained to take down enemies quickly and brutally. Fortified by anger and immense power, he can assume the role of a melee and a tank. If the exciting battles in the middle of the action are to your liking, then, Blader is the class you must choose. Using a one-handed sword or a large two-handed sword, he fights with great power on the battlefield and is an easy-to-use class for anyone.
• War Mage: The War Mage uses high-powered magical powers to take down his enemies on the battlefield. Although its defense is low, its attack powers are so high as to destroy targets in seconds on any battlefield. He is versatile enough to respond to various situations, which makes it complex and, therefore, the most difficult class to master in MU Legend. Its main weapon "staff" is used mainly to perform attacks from a distance, but it has the ability to also connect a sword with one hand and a book in the other "The Grimore" for melee attacks and thus be able to be formidable short and long range. If you want a hybrid character with high destructive power, the War Mage is for you.
• Whisperer: : Currently, it is the only female class in the game and a powerful long-range attacker. The Whisperer is the fastest class with the highest attack speed in MU Legend. His attacks are very effective, and although his defense is weak, she can hunt with relative safety as long as he keeps his distance. Use the "Wing Gun" and the "Long Bow" as weapons. The Whisperer is able to hunt fast thanks to its mobility. Therefore, if you want fast action and have a taste for powerful ranged attacks, the Whisperer is the class for you.
The battles are spectacles that can entertain both children and adults, they seem a display of very striking fireworks, among so many colors and sparks. Mu Legend's combat is taking full advantage of all the players' abilities in terms of their ability to move their fingers on the keyboard, select movements or abilities in a timely manner or position themselves correctly while being surrounded by enemies.
The skills are distributed along the keyboard, associated with letters such as Q and R, the distribution is very good and makes the pace of the combat is quite pleasant in terms of gameplay. The movement is so natural that your fingers know what to do before the brain does it.
But sending spam with the same skill set for each encounter becomes repetitive.
The combat of the game try to stay active and fresh thanks to the large number of skills of all types of characters. The amount is so large that you usually never need them all and therefore you must choose a game style to use the ones that suit you the most, you must choose 7 skills among which expert skills may be included.
While using skills you will increase your level of control over them and open slots in them to equip them with gems and improve them in aspects of damage, reactivation, mana regeneration ... Each skill can be equipped with three maximum gems.
While the bonuses are typically minimal, they improve your particular combat focus, prioritizing magical attack or critical damage and quickly accumulate in remarkable improvements.
The world of MU Legend is made up of a series of corridors joined by portals. The maps have many curves, corners and pockets to give the illusion that they are open fields, but in reality they are all narrow with walls that dictate where you should walk. Some environments are somewhat boring but others are quite striking and the architecture of the structures make believe that they could be inhabited.
The maps are each designed with their own lines to follow, you must comply with the requirements of the NPC'S to follow the next map to return to fulfill more tasks.
All this makes the world of MU Legend look like a series of rooms which in the long term comes to make it somewhat monotonous.
For fotune of us, the dungeons or "Rifts" as they are called in the game, are scattered throughout the maps. They are normally optional and break with the tedious of doing search after search on the map. For me, the dungeons are the best part of MU Legend. Far from being "disordered" they manage to challenge the partys with multiple hordes of enemies, making consumables matter a lot (potions of life, mana ...). In many occasions you can find multiple bosses in a single dungeon, although, with different difficulties.
When entering a dungeon you find an aesthetic very different from the map in which you were a second before, which indicates that there is very little harmony between the game worlds. But, the designs of the dungeons are impressive, old structures, magma wells, gargoyles on the walls, among many other details.
The best part of the dungeons is that they have different levels of difficulty, perhaps the first two levels of difficulty can overcome them alone, but, the following levels would be impossible for you alone. Therefore you must associate with other players to make alliances and overcome the highest levels. It should be noted that the higher the levels, the better items you will find inside the dungeon.
MU Legend is good enough: an ARPG that you grind while doing something else and tune your attention when jumping through dungeons / rifts. Simple combat controls and flashy skill effects make combat interesting for a while, but they become tricky through repetition unless you change your rotations, which is easy to do. The best aspect of MU Legend is its diving in dungeons: gather some friends and challenge yourself in the greatest difficulties to feel a sense of accomplishment. MU Legend is a fun distraction, a good ARPG to invest some time, but it is not a game to make a second life.
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP SP3
CPU: Intel Quad Core / AMD Phenom II x4+
Video Card: GeForge 8800 GT / Radeon HD4850 and above
RAM: 3GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 25 GBRecommended Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 7 (64 bit), Win 8.1 (64 bit), Windows 10 (64 bit)
CPU: Intel i5 760 / AMD Athlon X4 740+
Video Card: GeForge GTS 450 / Radeon HD4890+
RAM: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 25 GB
MU Legend first look.
Links
Official website
Official Facebook MU Legend
MU Legend Wikipedia
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