RAID: Shadow Legends Reviews

by Dead - Ringer

Hats off to the developers, but way too much of a financial investment to stay competitive. Even if you spend some, they literally try to force you to spend more. What do I mean by that? Say you’re watching the Avengers movie in theater for the first time- you’re loving it. But 20 minutes in, they say that was just a teaser- you can watch more for $20. I’d grumble, but probably do it. Then 20 minutes later, they have a long series of commercial interruptions, which you sit through, cause you were really into the movie. Then they charge you more to continue. Then they say, “for the last hour, we’re switching to 3D. You can buy a brown bag that may have 3D glasses in them, or maybe just some popcorn. If you buy ten bags, we”ll give you five more for free!! Or feel free to watch the last hour of a 3D movie you’ve now paid $75 for, without 3D glasses- cause we’re free to watch friendly. This recent Dwarf summoning event is far worse then my analogy. Your greed is off the charts. I hope you feel good about the players you sucker in, who keep spending. Make money promoting mental illness, while creating and enforcing it at the same time!!!
But you got me. Huge waste of time and money, with less than zero return for the investment. Business analytics probably want former customers like me to drop off- makes room for fresh blood and fresh wallets. You game looks good, and it’s entertaining, but no where near the slowly revealed asking price.

by Hopefulskater

Besides any minuscule quality of life changes, Plarium has proven time and time again that they only care about squeezing that last little bit of money even during a pandemic. You are not a person to them, you are a statistic. This is a gambling game, through in and throughout. There is very little skill needed, besides gearing your champions for what you need. I really love the character art and how much the community can agree on how awful Plarium is run. I don’t mean to hurt any of the devs feelings, you have to do whatever it takes to put food on the table but at what cost? How much money is enough to get y’all to actually care about how your fans view the game? How long is it going to take before y’all hire people that actually play the game? I have seen countless responses from Plarium employees that are clueless about our problems with the game. I am not worried about the amount of time in between patches but if you are going to come out with one around every month, each update should be a significant one. It isn’t like the community isn’t giving y’all enough ideas for new content, or do y’all want to keep ignoring the community more? The pressure is on now. I do have positive things to say about the game but when the issues with this app and Plarium are as big as they are, the positives aren’t even warranted.

by Brody1986

I’ve played a lot of these type of games over the years and don’t get me wrong this game is fun I will give it that. That is why I am giving it a 3 star rating.
The one thing I can’t stand is they make it very hard for lower players to obtain the resources to level up characters! Even the events that come out that have decent rewards seem unobtainable for newer players. Only for those who have huffed a bunch of cash into this game.
Which brings me to my main point, they shouldn’t make the main point of the game to gear people to spend cash on there packs. Example: Like oh we are doing this great event for summoning champions here’s all these great packs! Well is there an alternative way to get shards other than spending money. Oh you have to get to the end of the event to get A SHARD. Wow can’t get to the end of the event with out spending money. Not to mention the amount of the packs. Horrible if more people don’t feel like they are being ripped off just looking at the offers!
The new update: I was honestly excited about this update. But with that being said I feel I have some decent units built and I can’t hardly clear stage 20 on normal mode. Once again putting out content aimed at higher money paying players only. I would expect levels to be that difficult on hard mode but not normal. I think if they are gonna expect people to pay the kinda prices they have on their packs, we should be seeing way more new content and constant updates.

by Smerd636

The campaign is captivating, the visuals are great, the diverse heroes are amazing. BUT (big but here), if you want to play this game for its multiplayer, you’re going to have to spend money. I’ve played through 4 of the campaign quests and got I think 1 rare hero. Good luck trying to win battles with common and uncommon heroes with only 1-3 moves. AND the matchmaking system is terrible. You can have level 2 heroes in the arena and face people with all maxed out heroes. And in order to find someone that’s closer to your level, you have to refresh the list of opponents you have choices of to face. How do you do that? Oh, you have to spend gems which you can only get from doing difficult quests or paying money :)
To make this game better, 1) fix the high level players being in low level ranks because of inactivity or whatever reason. 2) add more ways to get heroes other than spending money. I realize I just got into the game, but after opening all of the shards from campaigns, rewards, etc. I have like 10 out of the hundreds of heroes and they’re all common, uncommon, or duplicate heroes. Why am I getting duplicates when I just started the game? Needless to say I’m uninstalling after beating the campaign. Again, very well voiced campaign :) but otherwise there’s big glaring issues that from what I’ve read in the reviews have been going on for months

by Cannaxul

So I started playing a few months ago and got really into the game. I still play it everyday in an effort to do my daily missions and try to work up to shards. I’ve even spent a little bit of money on the game. And while I like the grindy gameplay in some aspects, parts of the game are broken. Firstly, the game is designed to give you very, very small progress if you don’t open up the bank. It’s possible to be F2P but it’s a chore. Second, the shards just seem impossible at times. I have four copies of Kaiden, three of which have been pulled at multiplier events. To me, that’s crap. The game should never give you four of anything epic or above, especially if you are spending money in an effort to get shards to pull more champions. And thirdly, the arena is absolutely broken. The developers swear there’s nothing wrong with it, but I can’t even get to Bronze III just so I can get past my current mission. It’s not a bad a game, but it feels like the developers only care about squeezing pennies out of every last player and not an actual nice playing experience where there is a good sense of progression. It’s not a bad a game. It’s pay to win quickly, but over time you probably can grind out a descent team. But for the F2P people, it will probably take over a year of dedication to get anything close to a descent team and gear.

by Gogo10123

The game itself is fine and I enjoy it, but there are specific aspects that are just...not player friendly. The arena being one of those areas. You’re supposed to battle other teams but there’s usually only 2-3 teams that are at you level of champions or below. The rest vastly out power you. And if you weren’t penalized for losing it wouldn’t be a big deal-but you are. So the arena is pointless for me. I can maybe win 2-3 battles but after that I’m slaughtered. and you can be attacked while not there and I have never once seen where I got a victory from that. The stats on the those teams are excessively higher then mine. The arena is a joke.
The other issue I have is that there is no where to see the rank of any of the characters. And you can’t guess based on level since the levels start over after you increase someone’s rank. That makes no sense, and is deceptive when battling other teams.
The pay to play aspect is rather annoying but I get it.
However the fact that you have to pay money to unequip a piece of armour from a champion I s absolutely ridiculous. And the amount you pay is horrible.
Overall the game is fine, but there are pointless aspects for people who are just playing and not investing tons of money (i.e. the arena) and your leveling progress will be much slower.

by StephMonroe

OK so just start this off I can’t lie this app shadow legends is really really good game and it’s really fun to pass the time with. But I have seen lately an increase in levels like 26s having legendary‘s and Epix which I think is either luck or a pay to win but whenever I tryTo defeat them they always come out on top now I know there’s gears and rings are usually farm spiders den level one for rings which I used to thought were extremely rare butts that’s not my main complaint that’s just like something small. My main complaint is a graphical errors I consistently have where enemy champions or bosses I’m just completely bugging out like they attack and then they go back their limbs extend kind of and then they spin it sounds comical but it happens. I can say there is a fair chance for everybody to do challenges weekly challenges and such and I think I think it’s really good for like the gym earning system if you were to buy the gym generator like I’m trying to I think it’s a fair chance for everybody and I really like that this game balances paid a win and fun to win basically and I’ve never seen any other game do that with a balance pay to win and fun to win. Sorry about any grammatical errors.I used to also think that this game was really really bad. But I feel like I got completely immersed back in like December 19 I don’t know when I started truly. But I do know that is that this game is honestly amazing.

by Sharkblood8930

So this is an awesome game with great graphics. I really enjoy playing this game. It has everything I want. Cool characters. Cool bosses. A cool story. It’s awesome. But there are some problems. I have some sort of bug that makes my game crash after I play for awhile. I can stand it but it’s still annoying. Also the chances of getting good characters is unbelievably low. Sacred shard are gold. That indicates legendary characters. But you have a 1% chance of that. That should definitely be raised at least to 25%. And I’ve used maybe over a hundred mystery shards and a small percentage has been uncommon or rare. Please raise those chances a little too. And it would be nice if you could make the gem mine that takes 1d 2h to get 5 gems way cheaper the 500 gems. That is a lot. And making a clan should also be cheaper. My final suggestion is add a friending system. You should be able to friend people on this app. Also you say that if you send invitations to get people to start playing this app you will give good rewards. I send the referral link. To three of my friends. But I didn’t get any of the items you promised. It’s not like that will change my overall opinion on this app but it would be nice to fix this. I hope you take my suggestions into consideration and fix that bug.

by A-Duck

It’s a great game, no joke. I play this only because my 14 year son old does and he invited me to play, so I’m in for his sake. Points of relatability with your kids, right?

That said, 2 months and $150 later, there are some inherent flaws with this game, thus the 4 stars instead of 5. The lower level arena is a complete mess. My next arena challenge AND mission is to simply make it to Silver 1. Not happening anytime soon. It’s full of Level 60 (highest level) x 3 or 4 (not to mention the fact that oftentimes they’re Legendary Champions) that I simply can’t pass as a relatively new player. And, as an entry level player, I lose arena points for losing against these teams that have 3-4x my team’s power rating. Shouldn’t teams like this be quarantined to a higher arena level? I don’t even play the arena any more because even after 3-4 refreshes, I can’t beat a single team, even though I have a lone Level 60.

Also, YO. Can we make books a little easier to come by? Maybe make an area towhere you can collect “pages” of books (5 for rare, 10 for Epic, 20 for Legendary?) or something? Digging the game, but there are simply way too many different types of “currencies” to fully max out a particular Champion. Then again, I made the decision to spend $150 over 2 months and I’m all for free market capitalism, but I can’t see investing any more cash that I have to work for just to be cooler with my kid.

by Kymete

I’ve been playing this game for a couple of years on and off, and this is a good game if you like to collect different characters and make powerful teams. The character design is fantastic, there are several models and characters I’ve thought about creating the character in cosplay fashion. My first complaint after playing so long is that I wish there were a way to fast forward through the multi battles. Like a fast this app option so I don’t have to keep the game open and running for 30+ minutes (not actively playing or engaged) because I can’t do anything once I am in multi battle but set my iPad down with the game running and find something else to do while I’m waiting for the multi battles to finish. Which by the way is a huge drain on the battery. Cheers! UPDATE: I saw some recent reviews about how the login rewards for 271+ logins monthly rewards have been changed, as in they are no longer worth logging in daily that long to get. They used to reward sacred shards and 5* chickens, so I look in game, it HAS been CHANGED! As others have said, what is the point of logging in every day for almost a year to play and now the rewards are vastly inferior to what used to be something worth log in daily that long for. I am almost to dark Elhain and this really puts a damper on my daily logins I’ve been doing specifically for powerful characters, sacred shards, and chickens.

by "Ghost "

The game will let you get so far into it until it starts costing a lot. You can get to a point to where upgrading your champions gets really expensive. When it comes to the cost of upgrading your gear I have went through almost 1,000,000 silver just to upgrade the artifacts pass level 10 I have counted 19 times that upgrading had failed to raise two levels. It’s almost impossible to get past 12 and the champions that you receive from shards it takes a bunch of them to get a good champion that will take you far enough into the game to get good enough gear to upgrade your champion enough to even begin to think about beating the bosses. So unless you have a lot of money to buy what you need to get your champions level up high enough to take on the bosses it’s almost impossible to go further into the game you get stuck and can’t go any further. All I can say is great game guys just ease up a little bit on prices so a person can advance and ease up on the champions let a few good ones go so people don’t get so discouraged and you will probably keep people playing not everybody is a pro. There are people that don’t have a big pocketbook to spend on games. Other than that one of the best games I ever played. Everybody needs a chance to be able to get further into the game.

by Vpuff

Game is great. Graphics are great for a mobile game, and character designs are awesome. Lots of grinding, and a lot of gambling mechanics. If you’re into that, this game is for you. It can keep you entertained for months, even longer.

It’s not pay to win, but pay to progress. And yes, they will bombard you with “deals” when you go the the main hub that seem tempting and annoying, but you can simply exit out of them. Paying money (and lots of it) won’t get you anything you can’t get for free, it just gets it for you much sooner. There’s calculators out there that determine the value of the deals. If you’re a low spender I recommend using them. The 9.99 monthly gem deal is worth every penny. The game is free, and spending 10$ a month is a small price to pay for a game, that although flawed, has a lot of work and love put into it and can entertain you for months on end.

A note to the devs, the only reason this is a four star rather than five, is because the arena is broken. Teams of 60s in bronze I? Cmon. How are new players supposed to do anything in the arena? I’m mid game with 60s and decent gear and I’m still stuck in bronze. I face full teams of 60s, top meta champions in bronze II. Somethings not working. Same goes for tag arena. 3 full teams of 60s in end game gear in bronze I. Cmon.

by Deliomerd

This game is a great RPG Battle/Collector with tons of different legends and fractions to chose from when creating your team of legends. A ton of different modes to chose from online and off as well as a beautiful set of graphics and music heard throughout the game. The game does reward you for grinding hard earned legends rather than going for the micro transactions but the micro transactions are pretty rewarding themselves. The store offers numerous generous offers ranging from legends to resources and sometimes a combination of both. Logging into the game loads up 5 or 6 different store offers which can be annoying at times but are offering a lot if you’re willing to spend some money on this game. Somethings I feel like the game could improvement on is a better and more detailed story, perhaps with some side quests and choices which depends on the choice could change the story’s ending in multiple different ways. A lot of the low star legends are reused as a way of it being a different legend but with a slight bit of change to its clothing, color and star ranking and trying to sell them as a “new” legend which is just trying to take the shortcut when it comes to design and development in video games but overall it’s a still a great game and I would recommend trying it out.

by XscalaX

This is a great game. Lots of different aspects to spend your time on but the developers did a fantastic job of simplifying it so you don’t get overwhelmed. Overall it is a very fun game and pretty balanced. I would recommend everyone to give it a shot. There is one really big flaw that I find though and it is with obtaining jewelry artifacts. For example. If you need let’s say an amulet for a high elf faction character. It is already a pretty low chance that you get an amulet. Then it’s a much lower chance that the amulet you get is for the 1 out of 16 factions that you need. To put this in perspective. I have been farming the spider for over a month everyday and still haven’t gotten the any amulets for the high elf faction. In addition I know people who have been farming it for 3 months to no avail. I feel like a great solution to this would be to make the spider drops similar to that of the mastery scrolls. Where the piece of jewelry that drops will be for one of the faction characters you use to defeat the boss. This would change your odds of the right faction from 1/16 to 1/5. I believe this would still keep it a grind to get the jewelry you need but it would at least make it obtainable so that you don’t spend 3 months grinding for something and still never get it.

by Cyrusfyre

I really like this game. It appeals to me in a lot of ways. 1)The art and animation is very impressive. 2) The wide range of characters and champions is great also. 3) There are several different modes of play including campaign, dungeons and the arena. The game is fun. It is challenging and requires patience if you don’t intend to drop a lot of money but I have time and patience, especially during this awful pandemic. Speaking of which they’ve been great about that having given players very nice free stuff including lots of energy to give us all something to do while the quarantine was on in full. I often let the game play on auto battle while I do laundry and just make small adjustments when/if I need to. Really I love this game.

I do have a question for the DEVELOPERS. I’ve noticed that the Arena around bronze IV and silver I there are many defense teams with a power of 100,000 to upwards of 150,000 power (once I saw 190,000) and it seems to be due to inactive accounts whose tiers have dropped to bronze and silver but they keep winning against the players trying to get out of bronze and silver so they stay right there acting like a clog for those trying to climb higher. Will something be done about that? Perhaps after so much time of inactivity (say 90 days or something) your defense team is removed from the arena and you must start your climb anew?

by Loopeyalso

Today's video is sponsored by this app Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019 and it's totally free! Currently almost 10 million users have joined this app over the last six months, and it's one of the most impressive games in its class with detailed models, environments and smooth 60 frames per second animations! All the champions in the game can be customized with unique gear that changes your strategic buffs and abilities! The dungeon bosses have some ridiculous skills of their own and figuring out the perfect party and strategy to overtake them's a lot of fun! Currently with over 300,000 reviews, this app has almost a perfect score on the Play Store! The community is growing fast and the highly anticipated new faction wars feature is now live, you might even find my squad out there in the arena! It's easier to start now than ever with rates program for new players you get a new daily login reward for the first 90 days that you play in the game! So what are you waiting for? Go to the video description, click on the special links and you'll get 50,000 silver and a free epic champion as part of the new player program to start your journey! Good luck and I'll see you there!

by Aguyapersonnnn

The game itself is amazing. Basically the RPG version of World of Warcraft. The graphics are amazing as well, very detailed and realistic. I can see the blood and sweat and all the effort put into this game.
Sure, at first I assumed this game was bad because usually, games that spend loads of money on advertising and sponsoring YouTubers just to advertise their game would be a game I wouldn’t enjoy. This time, I actually decided to download RAID, no regrets. If I could, I would give this game ten stars.
Maybe the only downside is that the game is part pay-to-win, but you can easily make up for that by using the auto-battle tool. It's tougher without spending money, and this game requires a lot of grinding. This game is a great time-killer and whenever I'm bored, this would be my go-to game.
There are literally so many characters in this game. It's exciting because of the many players that actually play this game. If you're reading this whole review and debating in your head whether you should get the game or not, I would highly suggest you to get this game. I can almost guarantee that you wouldn’t regret getting this game, since I didn’t.
I was also looking for a new game to play since I got bored of all the rest on my phone, so this is now my game. Thanks Plarium, this is a quality, top-notch game.

by Noah100$

I’ve played this game for a while and think that the developers did a very good job designing it. This game did a very good job at balancing how complex it is and how functional it is. Right from the get-go, you can already understand the core game mechanics. I’m always am finding new strategies, which keeps the game fresh. One thing that has always kept me coming back to this game is the clan boss. In my opinion the clan boss is one of the best aspects of the game. Having a boss that your whole clan can fight was an amazing idea. I think it would be great if they added more ways for clan mates to interact/work together. If I had to complain about something, it would probably be artifact upgrades. This has been improved upon in a recent update (where they now allow you to do auto upgrades), but I feel it’s not quite there yet. Upgrading is based off rng, which I think is fine. The bad part is when you are upgrading artifacts to higher levels. There have been many times when I spend millions of silver on upgrading artifacts when I shouldn’t have. I think that the player should have a higher chance for a successful upgrade the longer they go without one. This would reset after every successful upgrade. This game is very enjoyable and I hope that if the developers reads this it will help them.

by Dcarrier22

I have been playing this app now for about a year and half now. If there are a couple things I could say about the game is that it’s really grind worthy and will keep you busy for quite some time. It’s one of the few mobile games I have actually been able to play longer than a week, but with that being said. If you’re a free to play player this game will still be fun to an extent but you will find that everything takes forever to achieve. It’s not impossible but there needs to be more ways around the game that don’t make people feel the need or pressured to spend money just to be able to make it anywhere in the game. You will get better and make progress overtime of course but it could take you a year of playing daily before you have even scratched the surface. Also the game does have in game events that give rewards but good luck ever winning them unless you spend money on energy or unless you have stockpiled for quite some time. Overall I’d give the game a 5 star but don’t start playing unless you’re really into grinding or willing to put the occasional $10-$20 here and there to help out with energy and other things in the game. Ps don’t buy the summoning shards in the game. You’re guaranteed nothing and more often than not you will be disappointed by the outcome. I hope this helps everyone.

by Hombubs

Even with their marketing team killing it, this game holds my attention and interest. Playing while not playing is great and it makes me take a break to wait for cool downs if I don’t want to spend real money. Which I don’t. Honestly, I’m having quite a lot of turn based fun and loads of RPG nostalgia. Literal meme portraits are also a treat. This game knows what it is. Only negative is “buy these upgrades” ads that pop up often, but not enough to break my concentration or immersion. The fact I can get immersed should speak for itself. Game is great for pot-playing, office-playing, wedding march-playing, walk-playing, bedtime-gaming, detention-gaming, taxiing-gaming, praying-gaming, changing-gaming, and anything else that requires a few taps on a phone or clicks on a compy. I’ve probably leveled four times while writing this positive rant that’s less about the game play and more about actually times of interacting with the game. This review is from a very busy person dealing with a masters program, full time work, a one-year-old, almost two fully counted hands of animals, and an S.O. This game lets me feel the fun of an RPG and the briefest satisfaction of strategy when I build my team to be OP against an enemy. No idea the pvp, but this has been my campaign for experience. Cheers.

by Abel8488

The game is great and a ton of fun definetly recommend however... you definitely need to spend real money. Purple shards to summon the good heroes are extremely rare. I have poured around 10 hours into the game and have received one purple hero. The bigger issue is that the lower level heroes (blues) are level capped so they hit 30 and that’s it unless you sacrifice other heroes to level them up but even blues are so rare that at this point I can’t level them up. So you get a point in the campaign where your party is capped out at their max level and you can’t get passed the mission because you can’t level up any further and get stronger. This is ridiculous in my mind and forces you to buy stuff with real money.

Additionally the game punishes you by making you spend your silver when experimenting with different gear combos which is RIDICULOUS. If I want to remove gear from a hero I have equipped you need to spend silver which take some of the fun out of seeing how some gear teams up with other and really figuring out how to maximize your party’s efficiency.

To summarize, great game but unless you spend real money you will reach a point where you cannot level up your heroes any further and your progression willl be SIGNIFICANTLY slowed. Lastly please get rid of the system where you have to spend silver to move gear around and let me have fun experimenting!!

by ..-/-.

I’ve been playing the game for about a year, and could honestly say it’s definitely a pay to win game. The game is addicting and will keep you playing for hours trying to understand gearing championship. Very difficult to obtain legendary champions as it should, but you could spend hundreds of dollars on summoning boots events spending over 150 shards and not get one. Instead you might get 5-8 epics if your lucky, some might even be duplicates and the rest will be rare champion’s. They’ve recently came out with a system to help players get legendary and epic championship, but again it’s still very difficult to get both epic or legendary that aren’t duplicates. Around holidays like Black Friday, gear sold in store will go from being $20-34 to a Black Friday deal of $59. I don’t understand how you raise prices on gear and label it “hot” as people are buying when we all know they’re not. Game is repetitive and gets dual. I’ve spent a lot of money on the game and I honestly wouldn’t recommend it. You’ll be disappointed. Btw; gear sold in store for a high price of real money could have flat status which is useless and a waste of money. Solid game but repetitive. Nothing really new. Beat campaign, play arena against really players teams ( which a lot are not even real people) dungeons , and the new tower that hasn’t dropped yet. Once you beat everything it’s like what’s next. Clan boss? Fraction wars? Gets old quick.

by Kempdip08

So about 5 months in the game been around for some of the politics that I’ve seen with favoritism which I’m still a bit upset about.. other then that I do feel that there are things that need to be worked on.. the game needs a buyback system for atleast 30 minutes after selling an item. Another thing That was finally added is more inventory space (thank you if it was added this update didn’t check yet) also content.. I’m only 5 months in but basically almost done with my arbriter quest line barely touching nightmare CB boss but as far as what else to do in the game I feel there’s really not much more to do.. lots of limits as to what you can do and especially for someone like my self that actually pays for things in game I feel we need more.. I know this is a game based off RNG but we do deserve more in my opinion. This game has all the aspects of being one of the greatest game via phone and via computer.. has all the right ingredients just missing something. Hoping moving towards I’m not one of these people that have been playing since launch that are complaining a lot now... I listed what my complaints are and overall the game gets a 4 I want to bump it up to a 5 but once the added ingredients have been added I will push it up to that none the less. Stay safe everyone in this tough time we are going through globally hopefully plarium will dish something back
To us.. thank you.