“I found a lot of ideas in Realm Royale that I liked, in a gameplay experience that I really didn’t like.”īut while all of this sounds good conceptually, nothing in Realm Royale feels particularly “right.” Perhaps it is unfair to compare it after playing hours of the AAA experience in Fortnite, but I had a difficult time determining how the game wanted me to use its weapons.
Forges can be found throughout the map, and it’s a great idea that allows players more choice-not to mention that it’s satisfying to watch that hammer swing away by itself during the process. And crafting with Shards, which you pick up from chests or from “disenchanting” unwanted weapons and items, lets you forge potions and rare weapons and abilities. Instead of depending on a teammate to go out of their way to revive you, they instead can defend you as you run away as a chicken, reviving yourself within a certain time. Some of the newer ideas that Realm Royale introduces impressed me: instead of being incapacitated like every other squad-based competitive game these days, your character turns into a chicken upon losing health, and losing one of those lives.
From my time on the PS4 version of the beta, I found a lot of ideas in Realm Royale that I liked, in a gameplay experience that I really didn’t like. Compared to other battle royale games, this take on the genre is more class-based with a fantasy theme. Realm Royale, however, intrigued me by its premise alone. Smite and Paladins have always felt like “second place” or even “third place” games in their respective genres and having only played the latter game for a few sessions before dropping it, there isn’t really anything I can fault the title with other than the fact that I’d rather play Overwatch. Hi-Rez Studios and its recently-established divisions have always come across as competent, talented developers, who haven’t quite yet made a product to stand out from their competition. However, it is now that an “also-ran” in the genre has come to my attention, with the beta for Realm Royale flailing its arms for my attention. A year later there are several of these for sure - probably in early access on Steam or mobile platforms - but not too many besides Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s Blackout mode have stuck. During the heyday of battle royale last year, when PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite were novelties to the general public, everyone was right to assume that the genre would take off and inspire numerous clones in the near future.
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