Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena reviews

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Microsoft from French
I was very surprised by Crown Champion: Legends of the arena. I was expecting a game of tactics, which it is not at all, and management, in which it is very limited, or it is essentially relational management with dialogues, mini-quests and some choices that make me feel this game as falling rather from the RPG-light type. No tactics, not since the fights are solved in automatic and the only influence that one has is in the choice of the fighter and his equipment. Management Yes since there are quite a few parameters to be taken into account in order not to make bankruptcy and that we will have to find a compromise between development of the domain, progression of the fighters, their potential releases and control of the reputation which gives access to more prestigious tournaments so riskier. But this management remains limited, we will buy some buildings and, for each, hire a person to deal with it then we will have a possibility to boost the effectiveness of this person. In 3 actions one folded each branch of the development of the domain. The estate will accommodate a maximum of 4 fighters equipped basically at the village merchant initially and then on the field for sophisticated equipment. The development of a fighter is classic with gaining experience mainly during victories, a bit through training then at high level by purchase from a specialist unlocked quite late in the game. But apart from choosing the class for recruitment, the player has no control over the development that follows a predetermined progression for each class. Since you do not have access to detailed stats or a history or even a simple schedule of tournaments, we will sail a little to view in all areas. The strong point of this game is ultimately the management of the relationship with the fighters and the discovery of their personal history through dialogues as well as the gradual discovery of the history of this world by some dialogues with a little everyone for a simplified version and obtaining books for a detailed version. Note that this strong point may seem a little wobbling in terms of ambience, because it seems a little space to make friend-friend at this point with slaves that we send to death (theoretically because very rare in fact, I have not had in the course of my part , as soon as we have a doctor the worst defeats translates into a few days of ITT). But hey, it's still a video game, difficult to make anything a bit complex in a few exchanges of short sentences. Complicated to give an opinion on this game. I will recommend it at a low price for those who like the RPG genre where we walk around to discover the history of a world and people who populate it knowing that the world of Crown Champion LoA is still very limited and the interface of the game not very pleasant.
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