Crystal Legends

The logo and cover art of the game.

***Crystal Legends*** is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed by Deluxetron and projected to be published by Imaginate. The game is a sequel to *Crystal Heroes*, a 2019 action role-playing game, and it features a fantasy-based open world environment and action based battle system, using elemental magic, character switching and uses gacha game monetization for players to obtain new characters, weapons, and other resources. A new to the series, the game features a limited multiplayer mode allowing up to four online players to play together.

The game is going to be released in December 2020 for the Imaginate Dreamlock and Neo Reo. Nintendo Switch, PC and Stadia versions are confirmed and being planned for late December 2020 and early 2021 but there are no confirmed versions for PlayStation 4/5 and Xbox One/Series X/S.

## Overview

### **Background**

*Crystal Legends* takes place in the fictional world (or land) of Cyndria. Legends known as The Legal Legends (The Guardians in the European version) were protectors of Cyndria and the defender of the Princess Elaina VII and her crystal (the Precious Crystal of Hope) in the skies of the kingdom of Skyeria, defeating many villains that weren't eligible enough to defeat them. One time, dark clouds starts to occur and it started raining, which signals the return of the gruesome and terrible sorcerer and warrior; Necromancer. The Legal Legends did what they can against him but was defeated easily because of the Necromancer's improvement after his previous defeat. The gruesome wizard kidnaps the princess of Skyeria and uses the Orb of Punishment to seal all of the Legal Legends inside and imprison them to make sure they won't escape forever. All except for 3 legends; "The Red Archer" Valerie, "The Purple Mage" Mabel and "The Blue Pirate" Amaar has escaped. Mabel and Amaar went away while Valerie stayed in a kingdom called Hikari, where she became everyone's number 1 legend of the kingdom. Though while Valerie is glad about it, she's still worried and is not feeling okay about the rest of the Legal Legends being captured and the other 2 legends who left out of Cyndria.

Meanwhile, the Necromancer has made several minions and bosses for each and every dungeon and land and forces them to invade areas and capture very important objects. There is one important object that Necromancer and his men can't find that was driven away; Princess Elaina's crystal, which has been dropped off to the kingdom of Hikari.

### **During The Events of the Game**

A warrior lives in the kingdom of Hikari, as they live in peace until one of Necromancer's experted Generals arrives and has stolen the Princess of Skyeria's tiara. Many knights, archers and mages went up against him but failed. It's up to the noble warrior who has to go and defeat the Necromancer and save Princess Elaina, bring back the missing crystal to her, free the Legal Legends and save the kingdom or even the world of Cyndria. But luckily though, they found and recruited the most popular legend; "The Red Archer" Valerie. During their journey to save the world, they finally meet the 2 other Legal Legends who left and came back to Cyndria; Mabel and Amaar. With the 4 being one team, they now exceed the land to accomplish peace.

## Gameplay

*Crystal Legends* is an open world action role-playing game that features the player controlling one of four interchangeable characters in a party. Switching between characters can be done quickly and during combat, allowing the player to use several different combinations of skills and attacks at once. Characters may have their strengths enhanced in various ways, such as increasing a character's level and improving artifacts and the weapons that the character equips. In addition to exploration, the player can attempt various challenges for rewards. Scattered across Cyndria are highly powerful enemies and domains that reward highly valuable resources, but claiming them uses up a currency simply called treasure, which slowly regenerates over time. Completing these challenges grants the player progress towards increasing their Adventure Rank, which in turn unlocks new quests, challenges, and raises the World Level. The World Level is a measure of how strong the enemies within the world are and the rarity of rewards that defeating them gives.

The player can control their character and perform actions such as running, climbing, swimming, and gliding. These actions are limited by stamina, which is the same for each character, but can be improved. Some characters possess abilities that can alter the environment, such as creating updrafts or freezing water that can aid the player in traversing terrain. Many teleportation nodes exist throughout the world that players can warp to, and some unique statues heal and revive characters as well as provide benefits such as increasing player stamina if the proper item is offered. Items such as food and ore may be procured from the open world, while enemies and treasure chests drop other types of resources that may be used in enhancing a character's strength. Players can obtain food from hunting animals, gathering wild fruit and vegetables, or purchasing them from a store. Most ingredients can be cooked into a dish. Some meals regenerate characters' health, while others boost various statistics. Mining can be done by attacking and destroying mining nodes to produce gem, though certain characters' attacks will be more effective in procuring gem. Ore can be refined and then used to enhance weapon strength or create weapons.

Switching between characters during combat and executing elemental skills allows those interactions to take place. Certain elemental abilities may be required to solve puzzles within the overworld.

A multiplayer mode is available in the form of co-op. Up to 4 players can play together in the overworld and join domains. Player matching can either be done by requesting to connect with another player. If the player wishes to clear a domain with other players, they will be automatically matched up with others looking to tackle the same objective. The game features cross-platform play, so players on any platform can play with each other.

By completing quests to advance the story, the player can unlock three additional playable characters, and other characters can be obtained via a micro mechanic. Several premium in-game currencies, obtainable through in-app purchases, and playing the game, can be used to obtain characters and weapons through the micro system.

## Development

Development began back in 2018 where Round 1 Industries was working on the first game of the *Crystal* series and Deluxetron making a online sequel.

## Music

1. Legend of The Legal Legends === 1:56
2. Prologue === 0:56
3. The End? === 1:24
4. ??? === 0:00

## Gallery

The Dreamlock version of the game.The Neo Reo version of the game.
## Trivia

* The game received critical positive reviews.
	+ Fans shares similarities with *The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild* and another adventure RPG game, *Genshin Impact*, with this game. Fans want to see the game compete with *Genshin Impact*, but Imaginate decided to change the release date from October 2020 to December 2020 to avoid competition and simply just want the game to be fun without challenging another game that is also fun.
* *Crystal Legends* is the 3rd ever online Imaginate game. The 1st being *Heroes United* and the second being *Invincible Bullet*.