We’re always a little wary of fabricated genre names. Hybrid labels cooked up by studios to describe their creations often tend more toward the aspirational than the descriptive. But if they’re taken as statements of intent, Mojang Studios’ positioning of Minecraft Legends is an intriguing one. Meshing the base building and resource gathering of realtime strategy, the mob stomping of MOBAs and minion management, ‘action strategy’ seems on first impression a decent label. It’s also something of a misnomer, and one we can only imagine is intended to euphemistically describe this mash-up that wobbles under its own porous weight. Ultimately, we’d suggest ‘monotonous turtling’ as a more apt description.
