Wildcards are eventually activated when someone lands in the box situated on the timeline, giving further reason to shunt participants back and forth. These can come from exterior sources-say, a sniper shooting as you explore a dungeon – but the game will randomly assign effects, including poison and healing, too. There are also environmental Wildcard effects that positively, or negatively, affect each battle. If that all sounds perfectly reasonable, that’s because I’ve only told the half of it. The enemy may kill your wounded fighter before your heal spell finally goes off. Abilities have a wind-up time, so might not activate immediately. Say you want your pal Yasuo to act before that pirate jerk-just use an ability that pushes the enemy back along the Lane. The icons in the Lane (shown at the bottom of the screen) are so small and indistinct, the menu so unintuitive that it took me a while to grok the system, which is essentially a way to shunt combatants back and forth along the timeline. Particularly impressive are the boss animations, which force the camera to zoom way out to accommodate them Ruined King builds on the concept by turning the timeline into a Lane, a term borrowed from LoL proper that makes the whole thing more confusing than it should be. JRPG fans will be familiar with games that use a combat timeline-for example, Final Fantasy X, where you can see the order that everyone will go in combat. Still, you’ve seen versions of most of these characters before, in other RPGs or fantasy fiction. Illaoi is more notable, being a muscly priestess who batters foes with a massive golden idol. Sarah Fortune is the fiery, headstrong pirate captain, Braum is the lovable lump of muscle, Yasuo the disgraced samurai seeking redemption. It’s a straightforward fantasy RPG, with a setting that’s barely touched on, and with characters moulded firmly on archetypes. There’s not much more to Ruined King’s story than that. It’s all to do with former Bilgewater tyrant Gangplank-he’s another LoL champion, by the way-who has murdery history with Miss Fortune, and romantic history with Illaoi, the Kraken Priestess. Each happens to be in Bilgewater on unrelated business, before fate conspires to bring the gang together. Essentially, a few of the LoL champs-Miss Fortune, Illaoi, Braum and a handful of others-have teamed up to save the city of Bilgewater from your standard Deadly Fantasy Mist: the same mist that has consumed the nearby Shadow Isles (nee Blessed Isles).
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