Hunters League is an interesting mobile game got released recently by O’olBlue Inc. It's an action RPG game with a team based gameplay and 3D graphics. Use your team which is made of 3 characters, and control their actions with various weapons and skills to create the best strategy for your combat. Take a look at this detailed review to know more about the game so you can decide whether to play it or not.
Tutorial
Playing the tutorial is essential thing. Actually in this game, you are forced to follow the tutorial as it teaches you how to perform your skills, how to move and how to dodge the enemy's attack. In addition to various things, such as how to lead your team, how to upgrade and buy your weapons.
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You begin as the Master of a team consists of 2 characters, and the tutorial shows you the way to collect more characters or the other two characters, and while doing that, one of these 2 characters will get captured by the enemy and you will have to rescue her so you can get a team made of 3 characters and 1 addition character as a backup.
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Gameplay
The game has 3 modes: Realm, Mid Realm, and Dungeon. The Mid Realm is available at level 14, and the Dungeon is available at level 12. The Realm is available once you finish the tutorial, where you have to clear a map consist of stages to reach the final boss of this map, and the first map's boss is the one who captured your 4rd team member. Which means you get your 4rd member once you kill that boss. You can choose the difficulty of the stages from Normal, Hard and Expert. The more harder, the better rewards you get.
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During combat, you can control the whole 3 characters in the same time by touching 'Select All' button, so they do the same movement in the same time. But also you can control one of them separately by touching him/her. The game's combat is kinda automatic, which means your team movement is automatic, even targeting and attacking the monsters will be performed automatically in case you don't do it by yourself. You can also set them to use their skills automatically. But honestly, your manual strategy should be much better than the strategy of the automatic mode, since you can choose which skills to be performed in an organized way so you don't get all your skills on cooldown in the same time.
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Choosing the suitable weapon for a stage to be cleared is important, you can always check which weapons are effective against the monsters of any specific stage before entering it.
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You can also choose the order of your 4 characters before entering any stage as who is going to be the backup and who is going to be the leader of the team. By chooisng the leader of the team, you apply a leader passive affecting the whole team. That passive effect is different on each character, so you choose what is good for your team. The backup character joins the battle when one of your 3-man team dies.
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In combat you can perform something like an ultimate skill called 'Collabo', where all your team attack with a special fancy skill in the same time, dealing massive damage to your enemy. The Collabo skill can only be used when it's energy bar is 100%, which means you can't use it twice in one stage, because it wont be filled again to 100% during the stage, but you can always refill it before entering the stage.
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In Dungeons, the rules are different. If you die duing battle, the weapon that was equipped becomes useless until the reset time of the Dungeon. But the monster's HP will be saved so you can try again and again until you win the battle. You earn Dungeon coins by clearing the Dungeon Stages, to buy variety of weapon Cores from the Dungeon Shop.
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In Mid Realm, more powerful monsters appear. Unlike the Realm, you can get Weapon Cores as rewards, in addition to the same rewards you usually get in the Realm.
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Each character has various weapons to choose from, but first, you will have to craft them. At the beginning, you will be able to get a free weapon for each one of the four characters. But to create further weapons, you'll have to use Weapon Cores to craft the weapons, which are obtained by clearing stages in Mid realm, completing missions or by opening Chests. There are 3 type of these Chests: Gold Chest, Blue Chest and Class Chest.
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The Gold Chest is the lowest tier, it gives less rare rewards and can be bought by the Gold in-game currency. The Blue chest is a higher tier, it gives rare rewards and can be bought by Blue in-game rare currency which can also be bought using real money. The Class chest is the highest tier, it gives very rare rewards and can be bought by high amount of Blue currency. All the chests have a daily Bonanza and a daily Luck, so it's all RNG.
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Each weapon has different skills, these skills can be upgraded by Gold and Skill Points, which are obtained from various ways. The maximum skill level to reach is limited by the Weapon level you have reached, which is also limited by the Team level you have reached.
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The Team level can be increased by clearing stages to earn Team EXP. The weapon level can be increased by the Upgrading Stones which can be obtained from various ways, such as clearing stages, opening chests, completing missions, getting daily rewards and other various rewards.
Upgrading a weapon gives it higher stats. The Team level is not only limiting the Weapon Level but also restricting the Energy Limit, the Hunter Level and the Collabo Skill Level.
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Each weapon can also be upgraded to a new form using Weapon/Evolution Cores, giving it a new look with higher stats in addition to unlocking a new skill.
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Another way to increase your weapon's stats is by consuming Artifacts obtained from the battle, and it's not limited by the upgrade level of the weapon but the amount of the Artifacts and Gold you have got. The Artifacts are divided into five grades. The low grade Artifacts can be synthesized allowing you to obtain the next grade.
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The Stage has a counting down timer, if you don't clear it quickly, you'll have to retry it again, and entering a stage consumes Energy points. So upgrading your skills and weapons is very important to clear the stages faster.
Skins are available in Hunters League, but they are not only used to give you a new look, they increase your character stats, such as DEF rate, ATK speed, and DEF Piercing. Each skin has different stats and tier. The higher the skin's tier is, the better the stats you get. Each tier can be upgraded. They are obtained through opening chests and boss challenges.
In addition to Skins, there are accessories available to equip, which increase your character stats too. They can be obtained from the Challenge Shop at Team Level 22, or as a reward. Accessories have different tiers and they can be upgraded.
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After clearing each stage, you get some rewards depends on how many stars you have earned in this stage. Those rewards consist of Artifacts, Skill Points, Gold currency, Team EXP, Hunter EXP, Class points, Upgrading Stones, Evolution Cores (only in Mid realm) and Chests.
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You can also get the same and more rewards by completing daily missions, daily events, Hunters Road event and many other ways will just pop up while playing.
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Bounty hunting is another way to earn Gold rewards, Core rewards and Union Pockets. You get to chase a wanted monster, to get it's Gold bounty. The more you hunt them the higher bounty hunter rank you get. There's a limit of how many monster to chase daily. The Union Pocket contains various rare items.
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Community Features
Community is a feature which gets unlocked at Team Lv8, you use it to help friends and to get help from them. You can also list your weapons to be rented for Heart currency, which is required to buy items from the Heart Shop. This feature helps the player to not get the feeling of playing lonely.
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The Company buff is something you get when you establish a company where Masters cooperate with each other, the buff expands the maximum energy. The Company in general is a guild-like feature. You gain the access to the Company Shop once you join one of them.
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The Arena is a place where you prove your team's strength and strategies to others in battles. You can earn lots of Blue every time you reach the highest ranking. You can earn Arena coins to be spent on weapon cores in the Arena Shop. The Battle is actually automatic, you can't control your team during the battle, you just set the order of your skills to be used in the fight.
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Ask Help, this feature allows you to ask for help from your friends when you fail or clear the stage with 2 stars or less. Monster HP gets decreased by 5% per 1 help and thats up to 3x help. Asking for help consumes Heart Box currency.
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Conclusion
Overall, Hunters League is enjoyable game, the graphics are catchy, you have long if not endless progressing in terms of upgrading weapons, learning new skills or improving the team strategy. Which means you have tons of things to do, not only clearing stages.
But the game is kinda pay-to-win when it comes to the Blue currency and the packages which are purchasable via spending real money, although it won't really affect your gameplay since there are many ways to earn them through events and missions.
There are two things i hated, first thing is the way the combat works. The combat feels the same everytime but with higher damage mobs or a new looking mobs. Also the automatic combat helps it to be more boring, you can just leave it on the automatic mode, so you don't really feel the action part of the game. Even the PVP is consist of automatic combat, which means you can't dodge, you can't do anything during the combat except watching. Second thing is how the game limited to four Hunters only, i feel like it needs more Hunters to be added. But anyway the game is still enjoyable in my opinion.
I rate it 8.1/10
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Tutorial
Playing the tutorial is essential thing. Actually in this game, you are forced to follow the tutorial as it teaches you how to perform your skills, how to move and how to dodge the enemy's attack. In addition to various things, such as how to lead your team, how to upgrade and buy your weapons.
You begin as the Master of a team consists of 2 characters, and the tutorial shows you the way to collect more characters or the other two characters, and while doing that, one of these 2 characters will get captured by the enemy and you will have to rescue her so you can get a team made of 3 characters and 1 addition character as a backup.
Gameplay
The game has 3 modes: Realm, Mid Realm, and Dungeon. The Mid Realm is available at level 14, and the Dungeon is available at level 12. The Realm is available once you finish the tutorial, where you have to clear a map consist of stages to reach the final boss of this map, and the first map's boss is the one who captured your 4rd team member. Which means you get your 4rd member once you kill that boss. You can choose the difficulty of the stages from Normal, Hard and Expert. The more harder, the better rewards you get.
During combat, you can control the whole 3 characters in the same time by touching 'Select All' button, so they do the same movement in the same time. But also you can control one of them separately by touching him/her. The game's combat is kinda automatic, which means your team movement is automatic, even targeting and attacking the monsters will be performed automatically in case you don't do it by yourself. You can also set them to use their skills automatically. But honestly, your manual strategy should be much better than the strategy of the automatic mode, since you can choose which skills to be performed in an organized way so you don't get all your skills on cooldown in the same time.
Choosing the suitable weapon for a stage to be cleared is important, you can always check which weapons are effective against the monsters of any specific stage before entering it.
You can also choose the order of your 4 characters before entering any stage as who is going to be the backup and who is going to be the leader of the team. By chooisng the leader of the team, you apply a leader passive affecting the whole team. That passive effect is different on each character, so you choose what is good for your team. The backup character joins the battle when one of your 3-man team dies.
In combat you can perform something like an ultimate skill called 'Collabo', where all your team attack with a special fancy skill in the same time, dealing massive damage to your enemy. The Collabo skill can only be used when it's energy bar is 100%, which means you can't use it twice in one stage, because it wont be filled again to 100% during the stage, but you can always refill it before entering the stage.
In Dungeons, the rules are different. If you die duing battle, the weapon that was equipped becomes useless until the reset time of the Dungeon. But the monster's HP will be saved so you can try again and again until you win the battle. You earn Dungeon coins by clearing the Dungeon Stages, to buy variety of weapon Cores from the Dungeon Shop.
In Mid Realm, more powerful monsters appear. Unlike the Realm, you can get Weapon Cores as rewards, in addition to the same rewards you usually get in the Realm.
Weapons, Skills & Upgrading
Each character has various weapons to choose from, but first, you will have to craft them. At the beginning, you will be able to get a free weapon for each one of the four characters. But to create further weapons, you'll have to use Weapon Cores to craft the weapons, which are obtained by clearing stages in Mid realm, completing missions or by opening Chests. There are 3 type of these Chests: Gold Chest, Blue Chest and Class Chest.
The Gold Chest is the lowest tier, it gives less rare rewards and can be bought by the Gold in-game currency. The Blue chest is a higher tier, it gives rare rewards and can be bought by Blue in-game rare currency which can also be bought using real money. The Class chest is the highest tier, it gives very rare rewards and can be bought by high amount of Blue currency. All the chests have a daily Bonanza and a daily Luck, so it's all RNG.
Each weapon has different skills, these skills can be upgraded by Gold and Skill Points, which are obtained from various ways. The maximum skill level to reach is limited by the Weapon level you have reached, which is also limited by the Team level you have reached.
The Team level can be increased by clearing stages to earn Team EXP. The weapon level can be increased by the Upgrading Stones which can be obtained from various ways, such as clearing stages, opening chests, completing missions, getting daily rewards and other various rewards.
Upgrading a weapon gives it higher stats. The Team level is not only limiting the Weapon Level but also restricting the Energy Limit, the Hunter Level and the Collabo Skill Level.
Each weapon can also be upgraded to a new form using Weapon/Evolution Cores, giving it a new look with higher stats in addition to unlocking a new skill.
Another way to increase your weapon's stats is by consuming Artifacts obtained from the battle, and it's not limited by the upgrade level of the weapon but the amount of the Artifacts and Gold you have got. The Artifacts are divided into five grades. The low grade Artifacts can be synthesized allowing you to obtain the next grade.
The Stage has a counting down timer, if you don't clear it quickly, you'll have to retry it again, and entering a stage consumes Energy points. So upgrading your skills and weapons is very important to clear the stages faster.
Skins are available in Hunters League, but they are not only used to give you a new look, they increase your character stats, such as DEF rate, ATK speed, and DEF Piercing. Each skin has different stats and tier. The higher the skin's tier is, the better the stats you get. Each tier can be upgraded. They are obtained through opening chests and boss challenges.
In addition to Skins, there are accessories available to equip, which increase your character stats too. They can be obtained from the Challenge Shop at Team Level 22, or as a reward. Accessories have different tiers and they can be upgraded.
Rewards
After clearing each stage, you get some rewards depends on how many stars you have earned in this stage. Those rewards consist of Artifacts, Skill Points, Gold currency, Team EXP, Hunter EXP, Class points, Upgrading Stones, Evolution Cores (only in Mid realm) and Chests.
You can also get the same and more rewards by completing daily missions, daily events, Hunters Road event and many other ways will just pop up while playing.
Bounty hunting is another way to earn Gold rewards, Core rewards and Union Pockets. You get to chase a wanted monster, to get it's Gold bounty. The more you hunt them the higher bounty hunter rank you get. There's a limit of how many monster to chase daily. The Union Pocket contains various rare items.
Community Features
Community is a feature which gets unlocked at Team Lv8, you use it to help friends and to get help from them. You can also list your weapons to be rented for Heart currency, which is required to buy items from the Heart Shop. This feature helps the player to not get the feeling of playing lonely.
The Company buff is something you get when you establish a company where Masters cooperate with each other, the buff expands the maximum energy. The Company in general is a guild-like feature. You gain the access to the Company Shop once you join one of them.
The Arena is a place where you prove your team's strength and strategies to others in battles. You can earn lots of Blue every time you reach the highest ranking. You can earn Arena coins to be spent on weapon cores in the Arena Shop. The Battle is actually automatic, you can't control your team during the battle, you just set the order of your skills to be used in the fight.
Ask Help, this feature allows you to ask for help from your friends when you fail or clear the stage with 2 stars or less. Monster HP gets decreased by 5% per 1 help and thats up to 3x help. Asking for help consumes Heart Box currency.
Conclusion
Overall, Hunters League is enjoyable game, the graphics are catchy, you have long if not endless progressing in terms of upgrading weapons, learning new skills or improving the team strategy. Which means you have tons of things to do, not only clearing stages.
But the game is kinda pay-to-win when it comes to the Blue currency and the packages which are purchasable via spending real money, although it won't really affect your gameplay since there are many ways to earn them through events and missions.
There are two things i hated, first thing is the way the combat works. The combat feels the same everytime but with higher damage mobs or a new looking mobs. Also the automatic combat helps it to be more boring, you can just leave it on the automatic mode, so you don't really feel the action part of the game. Even the PVP is consist of automatic combat, which means you can't dodge, you can't do anything during the combat except watching. Second thing is how the game limited to four Hunters only, i feel like it needs more Hunters to be added. But anyway the game is still enjoyable in my opinion.
I rate it 8.1/10
