Star Trek Legends Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · Published January 6, 2025 · Updated January 8, 2025

Star Trek Legends Review, Captain – The fate of the Star Trek universe is in your hands! Step into the role of your favorite heroes and villains from across the history of Star Trek and embark on an epic space adventure to control the mysterious Nexus. Battle to save all of existence in Star Trek’s official strategy-based RPG! Dive into the action with characters spanning the entire Star Trek universe, including Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Picard! Take command of the U.S.S. Artemis and recruit a team of legendary Star Trek characters as you embark on daring missions, experience epic turn-based combat, and make choices that influence the game’s entire story.

Star Trek Legends Review Pros:

Decent cartoon-like graphics.
10.54GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Own in-game achievements that pop up when earned.
Opening tutorial.
Turn-based combat.
You can skip or fast-forward interactions and story segments.
The game spans all eras of Star Trek so expect to see many characters like Picard, Worf, Burnham etc.
Morale dictates a player’s strength of attack so if you lower their morale their attacks will be weaker.
The Nexus is where you acquire random new members and characters to add to your team.
The Crew roster is where you can upgrade, level up, and edit party members and characters.
The Bridge of the ship is the central hub and where you go in between missions and do all manners of actions like crew management and the Nexus.
Before a mission, you get told what is required and you can edit your team layout.
World map-like level selects, you can move around and pick which mission to do.
Many locations and places from the shows and films.
Combat will have a set difficulty and it varies as you go through the story.
Mission types vary from scouting to interactions to combat.
Each playable character will earn exp and level up to increase stats but you can also do this with items.
You get an end-of-a-battle breakdown showing rewards and earned exp.
Daily tasks and achievements give rewards.
Overall level and exp bar for your main profile.
Each character will have a power level.
Interactions can have multiple choices and scenarios can have choices on how to solve problems.
Change the game speed with a click of a button.
The 3D game world and characters.
Shortcut buttons for interactions and menus.
The game is very streamlined, it’s very easy to just fall into the flow and have a good time.
Even if you’re not a Star Trek fan the gameplay loop is a fun and engaging one.
Combat is very short and bite-sized.
Many elements and mechanics in the combat like shields, assimilate, lay down barriers and shields, frozen, etc.
Three overall game difficulties can be unlocked and chosen – normal, advanced, and expert.
Shuttlecraft is another set of unlockable missions where you send party members out and it plays out in the background. Selecting members will show the jackpot probability percentage and all missions are real-time.
Many currencies and items are in play and needed for different actions like upgrading player levels adding new attacks to members or upgrading abilities.
Assign members to positions within the bridge crew stations to get team buffs.
Directives are another set of optional tasks and missions for Rewards.
A huge time sink of a game as it’s not that taxing and a very chilled-out experience.
You can replay story missions.
When selecting your team you will get an overall team power level and the power level of each individual trait like strength, health, etc.
Mission choices can fork into different paths depending on your actions.
Six different summon choices – crew, command, science, engineer, security, and medic.
Energy is a resource you get from playing missions and this is used for summoning.
Duplicate characters feed into each other to empower them and level them up.
Characters can eventually unlock and equip items to themselves to further improve their power and add abilities and buffs.
You will have to replay missions to go other routes and max out the level completion percentage.
Auto-play is available for combat.
Unlock new game modes such as Ops, and survival by leveling up your player level.

Star Trek Legends Review Cons:

Not the fastest loading time.
Cannot remap the controls.
No voice work.
There is no claim all button for Rewards.
It does look and play like a mobile game on the big screen from simplified menus to basic gameplay.
A lot of currencies and items to keep track of.
The gameplay loop whilst simple is very much the same loop over and over.
I found the story to be a nonevent and not that compelling.
It takes a while to get going in terms of decent rewards and getting away from your starter team.
There are no accessibility options like Colourblind etc.
A lot of in-game purchases.
I found I got duplicates a lot and it was very rare I got new or rare characters.
It’s annoying that many missions cannot be maxed out completion-wise for a long time as you have to grind out the items needed.
Autoplay is not always ideal and is slow regardless of game speed.
The tutorial doesn’t cover everything.

Star Trek Legends:

Official website.

Developer: Emerald City Games

Publisher: Tilting Point

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