Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a fantastic game. It puts you in the shoes of outlaws trying to steal gold from the Sheriff. It’s all a huge callback to the tales of Robin Hood. I love it because the source material is great. Giving this world a visceral and bloody feel has never come in a better form. However, there’s one thing that would make the game even better. All it needs is a game mode in which you can play as the Sheriff. Switch the tables around and give players the power to be that dominating beast who can kill in a single hit. That would be magical.
I think there would have to be some caveats with this game mode. The Sheriff is massively overpowered for a reason. He holds the key, and he can pick up any outlaw and kill them in one hit. While you can put him down for a few moments, he’ll always come back to try to stop you from stealing again. Simply putting players in control of him wouldn’t be fair, at least, not without some changes. The first one would be that the key needs to be stationed in the keep somewhere. The enemy players would have to work harder to find it, but that’s because the Sheriff can patrol it.
Next, the Sheriff needs to have some way to move faster, maybe a jog. To counter this, his hits should be less powerful. Change that one hit kill to a few swings, allowing players the chance to get away from him. It should also be easier for a full team to take the Sheriff down because in the base game he’s harder than a tank.
Players in the role of the Sheriff would patrol the halls and guard the key. When it’s inevitably stolen, the match plays out in much the same way. However, the Sheriff could call in more reinforcements due to the lack of an enemy team. Maybe this enemy team could be state enemies such as crossbowmen or knights. I think there’s a solid game mode in there somewhere, but it needs to be refined by the developers before we get it. I really do hope we get it.
