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SPOILERS Legacy Campaign Review

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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13974 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-11 03:06:39
November 11 2015 00:29 GMT
#1
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

Ok seriously you have been warned, this is going to be a brief review and critique on the Legacy of the Void campaign.

Where to begin? The end to the cliffhanger Zeratul and Duran left us on the Dark Moon!

Honestly, given what we have (Wings and HotS) I am fairly pleased with how the campaign turned out. Ironically many of the pros and cons of this game mirror the previous games. The introduction of the new awesome character (Tychus, Abathur, Alarak) as well as a character previously thought dead (Tassadar [but not really] Stukov!, Fenix). Despite this additions, Blizzard fucked up. First of all, to answer the question I posed in my 5k blog, the Legacy of Zeratul is nonexistent, mission 1 he is called a traitor, mission 2 + Show Spoiler +
he fucking dies
. It's such a lame, cliche animesque death too, it doesnt really fit. It turns out that surprisingly, the last level is not killing amon, but rather freeing Selendis, and the rest of the Golden Armada from Amon's control.

It just seemed a little empty. Blizzard attempt to fix this with the "epilogue" a 3 mission set (starting with Protoss attack a large map full of void creatures, Terran in The Dig part 2, and Zerg in a pretty lackluster finale). Kerrigan's transformation just looked incredibly stupid, and strangely, the whole of the epilogue feels out of place despite the fact that it is the only thing that provides closure.

Overall, this is probably the best story in the SC2 trilogy, but the majority of the levels feel like carbon copies of previous levels (the a move first level, the hold out on shakuras, the hold out in the epilogue, the hold out on Aiur, the mothership beam race, Rak'shir, etc). Wings is still the most difficult of the three, but I think this game is more difficult than HotS, that game was just a snoozefest.

I don't know if we will ever get a story like SC1, but I guess, everything considered, this is the best we could hope for...

Pros-
-The Pheonixs chasing those mutas on the first mission, (the nostalgia!)
-Alarac is a pretty darn fun character
-Solar Core is a hell of a lot of fun!'
-The soundtrack is SO DAMN GOOD OMG
-" I'm here to say goodnight you son of a bitch" :D
-good resolution to tassadar
-great way to bring back fenix, we aren't wowtards, so I am happy they didn't pull an Illidan on us
-the tiny hint for a possible SC3 story?

Cons
-so much repetitive level objectives
-the epilogue cinematic, goes against everything that made BW campaign good
-the angelic kerrigan, the fuck
-Xel'naga=Cthulu
-Where the hell is Niadra?!

I will say as far as the entirety of SC2 story is concerned, thank you Blizzard for Tosh, Tychus, Stukov, Abathur and Alarac, all of whom are excellent characters worthy of SC1's legacy...and then you made crap Rohana, Zagara, and Hanson...


Okay but seriously, this fucking soundtrack cannot be overstated

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royalroadweed
Profile Joined April 2013
United States8301 Posts
November 11 2015 01:59 GMT
#2
Alarak is awesome. He's ruthless but so witty that he comes across as debonair. He's my favourite character in the protoss campaign.
"Nerfing Toss can just make them stronger"
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13974 Posts
November 11 2015 02:05 GMT
#3
On November 11 2015 10:59 royalroadweed wrote:
Alarak is awesome. He's ruthless but so witty that he comes across as debonair. He's my favourite character in the protoss campaign.

for sure, it would have been fun to have him for a bit longer
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IAmWithStupid
Profile Blog Joined February 2013
Russian Federation1016 Posts
November 11 2015 04:40 GMT
#4
Totally agree.

My 5 cents:
I really miss Urun and Mohandar, Urun mostly. He was a real badass in "Utter Darkness", almost Fenix level of badass. I guess there wasn't enough time / missions to introduce them in LotV campaign.
Insert wise words here
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13974 Posts
November 11 2015 04:48 GMT
#5
On November 11 2015 13:40 IAmWithStupid wrote:
Totally agree.

My 5 cents:
I really miss Urun and Mohandar, Urun mostly. He was a real badass in "Utter Darkness", almost Fenix level of badass. I guess there wasn't enough time / missions to introduce them in LotV campaign.

well mohandar died in a short story that takes place after hots and before legacy, but yea urun was never mentioned after utter darkness
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IAmWithStupid
Profile Blog Joined February 2013
Russian Federation1016 Posts
November 11 2015 06:00 GMT
#6
On November 11 2015 13:48 Cricketer12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 11 2015 13:40 IAmWithStupid wrote:
Totally agree.

My 5 cents:
I really miss Urun and Mohandar, Urun mostly. He was a real badass in "Utter Darkness", almost Fenix level of badass. I guess there wasn't enough time / missions to introduce them in LotV campaign.

well mohandar died in a short story that takes place after hots and before legacy...

WTF? Link please? Honestly, I don't follow any comics, books, etc.
Insert wise words here
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55550 Posts
November 11 2015 09:41 GMT
#7
Alarak is how Artanis would be if he was an asshole.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7297 Posts
November 11 2015 14:20 GMT
#8
On November 11 2015 18:41 Elentos wrote:
Alarak is how Artanis would be if he was a real leader.


Made that more accurate for you.
Incremental change is the Democrat version of Trickle Down economics.
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13974 Posts
November 11 2015 17:19 GMT
#9
On November 11 2015 18:41 Elentos wrote:
Alarak is how Artanis would be if he was an asshole.

Alarak is legit powerful though, and he is a nice contrast to everyone else
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Sitinte
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States499 Posts
November 11 2015 18:38 GMT
#10
On November 11 2015 15:00 IAmWithStupid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 11 2015 13:48 Cricketer12 wrote:
On November 11 2015 13:40 IAmWithStupid wrote:
Totally agree.

My 5 cents:
I really miss Urun and Mohandar, Urun mostly. He was a real badass in "Utter Darkness", almost Fenix level of badass. I guess there wasn't enough time / missions to introduce them in LotV campaign.

well mohandar died in a short story that takes place after hots and before legacy...

WTF? Link please? Honestly, I don't follow any comics, books, etc.



Blizzard released a series of short stories prior to LotV's release.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/19913448/legacy-of-the-void-short-story-children-of-the-void-10-13-2015

That's the one you were looking for. It also introduces Vorazun.

Story #1 introduces Alarak and Ma'lash, and Story #5 introduces Rohana.
virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3598 Posts
November 14 2015 15:38 GMT
#11
Yeah, they overdid it. The whole Kerrigan goes Xel'Naga idea would have been great, but angel wings? Seriously? I still really enjoyed the LotV campaign, even though the missions were pretty repetitive.
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