You do start to learn your way around the city, and building up that organic relationship to it actually makes it the most effective character in the game. There’s no map to trace where you are in the city of Black Legend, and that is a compromise that does affect the ease of playing and quality of life, but also enhances the game’s thematic strength. The game immediately conjures up images of Jekyll and Hyde, Jack the Ripper, and other nightmares of the dark hiding around each little corner, and backs it up with a labyrinthine level design of tight corners and claustrophobic alleyways. The entire game takes place in a city infested with a perpetual, poisonous fog, manifested through an evil alchemist named Mephisto – as in, Mephistopheles from the Faust legend – and while it lends the game a permanent grimness that can be exhausting, it’s also a perfect take on the “pea soup fog” from the early industrial era, which approximates the historical period that the game is set. It definitely tries hard to crib the atmosphere and aesthetics we commonly associate with Dark Souls though.
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Once you’ve figured out how to play (which isn’t as straightforward as it should be thanks to a poor onboarding process), Black Legend isn’t so difficult. Interestingly, though, that’s not because it’s necessarily hard. Black Legend is an effort to be the Dark Souls of tactics RPGs. I know it’s a kitschy joke these days, but developers do continue to be inspired to create “the Dark Souls of XXXX.” So influential is that masterpiece that it has become a reference point across the entire industry.
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