League of Legends Rhythm Game Hextech Mayhem Launches Today

Earlier this month, Riot Games announced Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, a beat-matching crippled with immoderate superior side-scrolling/platforming gameplay. Riot calls it a “fast-paced bushed runner,” and that operation was personified successful Hextech Mayhem’s explosive (literally) motorboat trailer that premiered during today’s Riot Forge Showcase with Nintendo Switch. You tin ticker the gameplay footage below.

Piltover, Valoran’s taste halfway with a gorgeous steampunk aesthetic, serves arsenic the superior backdrop for Hextech Mayhem. You prima arsenic Ziggs, a zany yordle (a tone that takes the signifier of a mammal) with a heavy emotion and appreciation for large bombs. Instead of utilizing his explosives to instrumentality down different champions successful the arena, this clip around, Ziggs embarks connected a travel to physique the 1 weaponry to regularisation them each portion avoiding his strict and rigid nemesis Heimerdinger. 

As Ziggs, you’ll “bomb to the beat,” moving implicit floating icons that alteration your predisposition (e.g., motorboat you successful the air, driblet you backmost down to the ground, etc.) crossed a horizontal representation of Piltover portion simultaneously decimating waves of foes and large-scale bosses with fiery explosions. Heimerdinger is the nonmigratory enactment pooper and his equipped troopers and weaponized machinations basal betwixt you and your philharmonic escapades. 

It seems arsenic if the situation of Hextech Mayhem derives from its utilization of sensory overload. You’ll beryllium moving successful tandem with the music, but balls of occurrence emitted aft hitting enemies and objects alike with bombs capable the surface and marque navigation a disorienting activity. You’ll person to wage attraction and effort your champion to disregard the colorful carnage to enactment alive. 

If this gameplay loop excites you, past you’re successful luck. Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story launches contiguous connected Nintendo Switch and PC. 

Are you excited to sprint down the streets of Piltover, laying discarded to everything and everyone you encounter?