The Might & Magic series is one that dates all the way back to 1986, and it is credited as being one of the most influential franchises when it comes to grid-based dungeon crawlers. The nine previous releases were published and developed by New World Computing and 3DO, making Might & Magic X - Legacy the first in the series to be both developed and published by different companies; Limbic Entertainment and Ubisoft, respectively. Fans of the amazing fantasy RPG have had to wait 12 years between the 9th game, and this highly anticipated 10th release.

I remember my first Might & Magic game, I spent hours on my Sega Genesis exploring and basically having no clue what to do during Might & Magic II: Gates to Another World. It was a difficult experience for me as a kid of around the age of 10, but I remember being super thrilled by the fact that the cartridge had a battery powered save system. Needless to say, I couldn't wait to experience the same nostalgia with Might & Magic X, but unfortunately the game has been soiled by Ubisoft in more ways than I'd like to even begin counting, but here you go.

As with any grid-based dungeon crawling RPG, you're able to customize your party from the get-go if you like, otherwise you can choose either a random or default party. You can have four characters in your party, and you're free to choose from an elf, human, orc, and dwarf; all of which have three classes each to choose from. These include, but are not limited to, Freemage, Barbarian, Paladin, Druid, Ranger, and Scout. Ultimately, there are not a huge variety of options, but enough to mix up the gameplay if you decide that you would like to venture through this tough-as-nails game multiple times. You can even choose whether your hero has a cynical voice, or a heroic voice, which in turn affects their extremely limited random statements.

The most important feature of any RPG is, of course, the story. However, the one that is featured within this title is one of the most lackluster, and downright boring story lines to ever be conceived. You will be met with literally no interesting characters, no character development, not even any character relationship development; not to mention, the lore is completely snooze worthy. You begin in the town of Sorpigal-by-the-Sea, near the east coast of the Agyn Peninsula. You've arrived via ship to bring your mentor's remains to the city of Karthal for burial. Unlucky for you and your party of raiders, the city has closed itself off to any and all outsiders so you're left waiting around until it decides to open up again. Yes, right from the get-go, all of your quests are for naught and are simply filler.

You have a map that shows every available tile for you to step on, some of which are marked with a white square or a white circle; indicating either a building or someone that you can speak with, respectively. While you can gather some quests from speaking to people around the towns that you will visit, they will mostly have gossip chat logs that are of little to no interest at all. Much, if not all, of this random dialogue banter is completely forgettable in the long run, and ends up feeling like a waste of time. Even a large chunk of the quests can be regarded in the same manner. Did I mention that a lot of them also end up glitching, and will end up making you restart your entire game? Yes, there are also game breaking bugs in this classic crapstorm.

What makes Might & Magic X even more spectacularly boring is the lack of audio. Yes, there are some reused sounds from older games of the franchise, but one question lingers: where is the background audio? More often than not I found myself listening to utter silence unless I was in battle, and then it was the same battle music looping over and over again. I thought maybe I needed to adjust the in-game sliders, so I turned the sound effects down completely and cranked my speakers to little avail. Even with the music slider at full blast, there is barely any music in this game whatsoever. Don't even get me started on the lack of voice overs, because there barely are any save the odd dialogue snippet here and there, hours and hours apart from each other; by the time you hear one of your four characters quip "Looks like they've smelled us! Who forgot to take a bath?" for literally the 300th+ time, you'll want to throw your speakers out of a window.

Let's talk optimization... there is none. Running on a GTX 1080 and an i7 6700k system, I saw my frame rates dip into the 30's in the open world map. It didn't matter whether my settings were on low or ultra, it happened consistently; I blame this on the awful Unity 3D engine. AND UBISOFT DIDN'T EVEN PAY FOR THE PRO VERSION, that is why the user created content feature was removed upon release. I won't lie, this game looks like absolute garbage for something that released in 2014, and yes I know, graphics don't mean everything. However, when you have nothing else in your game that is any good, it's just another down-point. In fact, Might & Magic X looks like some sort of in-between PS2 and PS3 era hybrid that went awry; some characters even have left eyes that go one way, and right eyes that go the other way. The implemented bestiary quest tries to help boast how many enemies there are in the game, but quite honestly the majority of them are re-skinned, recolored versions of one another; a blue ethereal spider here, a brown spider there.

To sum it up nice and simple, Might & Magic X - Legacy is an abomination, it is urination and defecation all over a once great dungeon crawling RPG series. Ubisoft really screwed this one up, and I bet 3DO and New World Computing are still crying themselves to sleep at night while drying their tears with $100 bills for allowing this company to take over their product. Where is the sound, most notably the music? Where are some voice overs? Where is the effing storyline? Ubisoft are so cheap that they couldn't even pay for the Unity 3D Pro Edition so that the user created content feature could stay in the game. If you ever take any advice from me, from any of my reviews, stay away from this garbage and get Legend of Grimrock instead, for it is a true grid-based dungeon crawling RPG.

Belphegore's Hell House Reviews (Group)

Here is a quick review for you from a M&M veteran.

Pros:
-Nice story.
-Nice graphics although not too good but who gives a toss about graphics anyways.
-Feels like Might and Magic.
-Is indeed fun.
-They finally upped the magic damage so you can sometimes 1 shot entire crowds when you crit with your spells.
-Decent sound effects.
-All wizard party is a wonder to behold. With crits added, your magic attacks can do a lot of damage and the game becomes even more enjoyable and easier.
- Nice dungeon design. Although since it's tile based, it's mostly visuals, not too much variety, very few secrets, traps etc. compared to the other games. It could have been a gray labyrinth and from "gameplay" point of view, the dungeons would have basically been the same. But still they mostly look nice in my opinion.
- I like Ashan better than Enroth. Has a more interesting lore in my opinion.
- Crag Hack is back my dudes.

Cons. Oh boy.
- Not even half of the content of mm6 mm7 or mm8. Probably inferior even to mm9. This bothered me the most. You cannot even do the promotion quests of other classes for example. Oh and there is only one promotion for each class instead of the usual two.
- 4 races. 3 classes for each and class design isnt very intricate.
- Obligatory tile based movement and buffs. Didnt bother me that much but still, only turn based is a bit off putting.
- TONS of sound effects and textures (mostly monsters) are recycled from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic 5 and some others.
- Basically one map. Really. One. Map.
- Since it is so small no flying whatsoever. Very limited freedom.
- WHEN YOU ARE OUT OF A BLOODY CITY, IN OPEN FIELDS, THE CITIES ARE BASICALLY AT YOUR HEIGHT. IMAGINE THJORGARD, NOW MINIMIZE IT TO YOUR HEIGHT. YES. THAT IS IT.
- Unless you have like at least 2 casters, the DLC is impossible to do.
- Level cap is 40. Yes. The content is that limited.
- Obligatory Uplay login. Did not bother me but might be a bit off putting for other players.
- All status effects last forever. I am not even gonna elaborate like this happens when you get that and such because nearly all of them are broken. Even ♥♥♥♥ing sleep doesn't get dispelled when you get damaged if I am not mistaken. You need to have casters or an endless supply of scrolls to negate status effects (which trigger roughly half of the time when creatures attack) or you literally cannot progress.
- Feeblemind --> Death.

Overall this isn't as good as mm6, mm7, mm8 or even mm9. But it is nonetheless enjoyable in my opinion. If you like Might and Magic get this. Just don't have super high expectations and you will enjoy it.

World of Xeen remains one of my favorite games of all time and the Might and Magic series has been a staple of mine from M&M II to M&M VIII. So of course I jumped on the chance to play M&M X.

What is gets right:
Turn-based party-based RPG mechanics.
Familiar Might and Magic loot.
Familiar Might and Magic skill and expertise system.
Character banter.
No game breaking bugs or deal breakers so far.
Doesn't come on a dozen 3.5" floppy disks.

What's missing:
Some basic elements, the character portraits, the interface, could be tightened up a bit.
The font of the in-game text doesn't seem to fit.
It's subjective but the holistic package is just lacking to a small degree.

What's wrong:
I'm not a fan of the fixed race/class character creation.
I want my old school Xeen class system with fighter, mage, cleric, thief and multi-class combinations assigned to any race/character portrait.
Needs a larger party and more races/classes/skills in general.

Might and Magic X - Legacy is not a perfect game. If you are not familiar with the series and play only top tier perfect games, you will be disappointed in it. If you are a fan of Isles of Terra or World of Xeen, you will probably find a lot to love. My hope is this is a resurrection and the first of many Might and Magic titles. If so, I will be playing the hell out of them.

Allow me to cover something important in this review. Limbic Entertainment, the developers of this and the two most recent Heroes of Might and Magic games, is comprised of fans of the series. Their care and attention was plainly seen in H6, a game which was hated by many fans and, yet, still very good. Many new elements were added for better or worse and Limbic was not afraid of testing new ideas. Something the series has gone without since H3.

This game, however, is product of the negative feedback from H6 on two fronts. The first is Ubisoft investing less money into this title. The second is Limbic's decision to play things safer this time. The decision to return to simpler mechanics wasn't a bad one. The game does suffer for the lack of time, money, and innovation it received.

At the end of the day, they took all of the advancements from M&M7, slapped them on to M&M4, gave it a fresh coat of paint and called it a day. Not a bad game, just not a noteworthy one.

I have never seen the appeal in Tile Based RPG's, I tried a few of the wizardry games, but never made it passed maybe a dozen mobs in game. I got this game as part of a bundle, or promotion. I fired it up, thinking I'd get a good laugh out it, but fell completely in love.

The turn based pacing is a perfect antidote to run and slash of most modern RPG's, and the difficulty of the fights had me using actual tactics. Blocking at the right time, using resistance spells, setting up crits.

The story is passable enough to give you a somewhat engaging reason to complete the game outside of leveling up your party, and I had blast seeking out and finding secrets, and filling out the map.

I loved the game. I've played 7-8 and 9 before. Might and Magic X is not the top on my list, but it was a good game. The thing that bothers me is the UbiSoft account and the achievements. It would be better to have them into steam instead of another platform.

MM6 was my favorite game from years back. This brought back a lot of memories. If you're a fan of the genre you should pick it up, but only after grabbing both Grimrocks. A little bit of the MM soul was lost in the company transition, but it's mostly there. Worth it on sale.

amazing, for 7 bucks ^^

Modern remake of old school RPGs like Wizardry. It's not perfect but it's much better than it was at launch, with regards to optimization and game balance. Uses uPlay, unfortuntely.

Start the game and i have only black screen!