Loki: Heroes of Mythology Reviews

A trio of new reviews for Cyanide Studios’ Loki: Heroes of Mythology have surfaced on the web. The first is at 1Up with an overall score of 4.0/10:

Choose a character from four distinct mythologies and click your way through your own culture’s environment, and then move on to the others in a pan-mythological mission to combat the bad-kitty behavior of the evil god Seth. Loki features well-balanced quest-based loot and level progression, plus clever skill and item customization systems. Eventually, though, the hordes of monsters and A-to-B objective structure devolve into tedium. It doesn’t help that you have to play through all three difficulty levels in order to see the actual ending.

The second is at GamersInfo.net with no overall score:

…there’s nothing here you haven’t seen before. It’s all very well done and will please anyone with a hack-n-slash craving who just needs to devour levels and experience points like a Sims fan munches on expansion packs. The combat is meaty, the character development solid if unremarkable save for the interesting weapon-forging system. Graphically, it’s a tremendously attractive game, with powerful spells lighting up the screen and enemy monsters looking threatening and angry. It doesn’t do anything new, but does the RPG genre very well indeed even if your fingers ache after all that sword-waving, one-click combat.

And the third is at GameVortex with an overall score of 25%:

I just don’t “get” Loki: Heroes of Mythology. The control scheme seems to be a strange selection for this sort of a game, and the “GameCenter” online gaming application is not merely unintuitive, but is, apparently, broken. There aren’t a lot of people out there playing the game (I saw three, consistently. The same ones, as far as I could tell) and it appears that almost half of the players in the online ranking are only first level. This indicates to me that a large number of the players who did actually play Loki online gave up before advancing past their first level. I can’t really recommend this game to anyone. If you’re not into online play and you’re interested in game development and the idea of the strange mix of RTS controls (with a single unit) and an RPG game have you interested, then be my guest and give it a go. For the rest of you who are simply looking for a cool RPG game – especially if you’re looking for online gameplay – move along… there’s nothing to see.