Eye of Judgement Legends Review

Posted by Philip Bethel in Featured, Reviews, Sony | 3 comments

So it all began in some unspecific time period when the earth was overrun and almost destroyed by an invading race called the Biolith.  The races of the four elements – earth, fire, wood and water all took into hiding before setting upon a quest to find a wizard who could defeat the great Biolith God.  Low and behold a most powerful Wizard was sent to earth by God himself and his name was The Chosen Wizard, and essientially this is you the player.

The Eye of Judgement Legends is, at its roots, a turn bases collectors card game.  And a very deep and immersive one at that.  Not many of them around excluding Magic: The Gathering on XBLA.  But it, surprisingly to me, relys heavily on a strong story system that drives the player onwards using his divine powers to overcome forces of evil.

After a tutorial and a couple of battles the menu screen will display – Story, Battle Arena, Card Shop, Deck Manager, Library and Network so it goes deeper than just the battles allowing you to custimise your deck with cards bought from the card shop or from trading with other PSP owners.

The player will try to monopolise a nine squared playing board with summons using Mana (the curreny of magic).  If all squares are occupied by a single player they win.  Another key way to victory is to put the game in a state of check, similar to chess, and subsequently kill an opposing summon on your next turn.  There are also spell cards which will alter play e.g. turn a summon around or remove opposing summons.  All this combined with the fact that the squares are all divided up into elements, as are your cards, results in a very deep and engaging battle system with endless possibilities and outcomes.

The game ensures you attempt to use skill and intellegence to overcome the enemy and from time to time a character pop-up with speech text will keep the story rolling and deliberately sustain your interest.  Graphically the game is gorgeous and rules of engagement are clear after a few attempts, although you will continue to learn and grow in capability through the entire game.

There is also a single battle option whereby you can earn money to buy cards or win them.  If you have played Magic on or off a console you may be surprised to know it has a worthy contender in the form of Sony’ Eye of Judgement.  Such a polished game and no need to bother holding a card under a camera folly as in its PS3s counterpart.  Captivating dark immersive story backed up with a well structured and deep battle system with lots of customisation and progression elements.  Its almost a must but I’d buy it anyway.  One of the best.