“Please, please, please dad: can we buy the nerf kit?”
When Frank Hegevall (6 years old) politely asks if he can play new games that he has seen advertised on YouTube or on his iPad, I always find it difficult to say no. I’m weak i know I understand what he’s feeling and this curiosity, enthusiasm and love for video games reach that old heart. And I remember very well what I felt when we couldn’t afford to buy a console while all of my friends had an NES or a Master system and how much I wanted one and the envy that came with that all of that brought with it. Frank’s sympathetic charm often turns into I am kryptonite, and too often we buy games that we shouldn’t have bought. Como nerf legends.
In the Hegevall household, we love Nerf. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that there are 15 different Nerf rifles at home, in different sizes and models, including the Zombie series of small pistols, grenade launchers, giant battery operated rifles, Fortnite precision rifles, and everything in between .in the middle. Vega (5), Frank and I do a lot of Nerf Wars and I’m pretty sure that Papa Hegevall has at least as much fun as his offspring. That’s why, of course, I wasn’t the least bit surprised that little Hegevall drew a lot of attention from Nerf Legends when he saw the ad on his iPad.
After paying $ 49.99 and go through an hour of download, the game lands on our switch and we start playing, which I would have liked to avoid. Because there is no doubt about it it’s one of the worst games of the year in any category. The story is practically zero at first, as are the characters and the diversity. In a future full of color, killer toy robots rule everything and only you and your gun are there to fix it all. Six levels full of enemy robots and pointless puzzles await you in a game where you run, shoot and scream in frustration until you reach the end (after almost 5 hours).
The most important thing in a first person shooter is of course the “gunplay”. In Nerf Legends, pulling the trigger isn’t just boring, it’s downright suffering. Guns have no recoil because they shoot foam arrows. They don’t have any real gun sounds either, because what they’re shooting is foam arrows. The magazines only hold five or six arrows, so you have to reload all the time, and when you hit enemies, you feel nothing. Nothing happens, Enemies don’t respond and it seems you didn’t hit them until they suddenly disappear.
The second most important thing about a game of this type is that there are complex and cunning opponents that are nowhere to be seen in Nerf Legends. Enemies are brightly colored toy robots that wander aimlessly through stupidly designed levels like idiots until my foam balls suddenly make them disappear. From what I’ve seen there is no “artificial intelligence” here, instead enemies tend to have some gravity towards the player, as if they were being pulled, which frankly creates an uncomfortable pace of the game.
Nerf Legends is nowhere near difficult It’s a no-brainer
The levels don’t make sense. The carcasses of the game’s silly enemies are made up of just a few polygons, and even the “puzzles” out there are extremely frustrating. I’m pretty sure the developers only added the “puzzles” to keep the game longer, because Nerf Legends would be over in 40 minutes If it wasn’t there all the time, you have to get up and shoot five red buttons to open a door that leads you to the next fight with a useless enemy.
The music and graphics are terrible too, it still is uglier and with worse music than many, many free Android and iPhone games. The soundtrack only contains tricky MIDI guitar solos that become unbearable in a little over a minute. The two voice actors out there are terrible too, and along with the worst script of the year, give us the most embarrassing dialogue I’ve heard in a long time.
We’ll add that to that the multiplayer mode of Nerf Legends does not work or works backwards. Servers should be open and available and the publisher Gamemill claims there are people playing their game online but I didn’t get through to playing a single game in a week. Usually it is also not possible to get into the menu that searches for available games. If you succeed against all odds, there are still no players so just laugh at this terrible misfortune. I couldn’t have imagined that a game released in 2021 would bore me as efficiently as Balan Wonderworld, but Nerf Legends is at the top of the crap pedestal.