Guardian of lore switch review skin#

With Sentinels, we saw that it was a little too grindy for a lot of players. I think a lot of players really liked that because we saw like 25%-ish reading it. Then if you were hard engaged, you can like get like super bonds with characters and earn like emotes and stuff. One of the things that I think worked really well is that, for the average player that was just playing a couple games a week, you could get through all the stuff you wanted to get through. So we kind of explored the visual novel aspect to get some storytelling that you could do in between games. With Spirit Blossom, we've kind of wanted to do storytelling in a major way, for a long time, but it was kind of hard to do it in League of Legends. In terms of the gameplay aspect of this event, what lessons were learned from previous in-game events like Spirit Blossom, or the Sentinels event?

Guardian of lore switch review skin#

They were like, “Hey, cool, we're planning on doing Star Guardian anyway! Maybe we'll do something for Kai'Sa and Akali.” So it wasn't like skin work hadn't started at all. Like for this I know the skins team were already planning to do Star Guardians this year, even if we didn't do a big event. Then we kind of started building! I think sometimes the events come first, and sometimes it starts the other way around. When we laid them all out, Star Guardians was just the one everyone in the room was super buzzed about. But we put three things on the table and looked at the pros and cons of each and what was more exciting. I don't want to talk about other options we looked at in case we pursue them in the future. We got together with the Wild Rift team alongside the leads on the skins team and other teams too! We basically got together in a room and we were like, 'okay, what are we all excited about?' We actually looked at three different options. Mireles: I think it was March of last year – before Sentinels. I’ve got a sort of chicken or the egg question does the decision to start a Star Guardian event come before the desire to create a new line of skins, or vice-versa? Or are both simultaneous? So you can enjoy it if you're playing just one title, or if you're playing Wild Rift and you're playing League, you can experience different stories in different places that compliment each other. For Star Guardians, we wanted to tell different stories across our different games. We also wanted to look at what other stories we could tell, because unlike Sentinels, we weren’t trying to tell the same story across multiple games. You'll see in this event that some progression is made there. Take Zoe, who had a big storyline that we wanted to continue. We got in a room all together, looked at the whole storyline with Jared Rosen – one of our lead narrative writers on this event, to look at the whole timeline and figure out what are the stories that our players are excited to see continue. But even so we did have to look back at every kind of all the story we've told players with it from previous events and stories so far. Luckily, something like Star Guardians doesn't have too much lore already established. Mireles: Well, first of all we have to look at all the lore. How do you have to approach a legacy skin line different with events like this, as opposed to a whole new line of skins like we saw with Sentinels or Spirit Blossom? Get to know the Star Guardian cast, one chapter at a time!

It made sense that we would try to do one of these big multi-game events with it, bringing in other teams like Wild Rift and Legends of Runeterra which had players who hadn't even experienced a big kind of Star Guardians event. We hadn't touched on Star Guardians for a long time, it had been around two and a half years since the Neeko skin was released. So, when we finished doing our multi game events with Spirit Blossom, we were looking at what we wanted to do next. Both of those skin lines are really near and dear to our players and every time we return to them, tons of players get excited. It was Project and Star Guardians that were kind of the really big ones where we started doing like five skins in a single drop instead of like a lot of individual skin releases we were doing in the past. Back when Star Guardian Lux came out, the skins team made something that people really loved – so much that we did like a big Star Guardian thing later. Mireles: Star Guardians was one of our first big skin lines. We wonder if Project L – a future Runeterra based game – will also be wrapped into these events.