I'll start this review off by saying, firstly, I am a fan of mmos, Ive played a lot of them, am aware of the conventions they tend to rely on and I accept them. Secondly, this is kind of just my jumbled thoughts, but mostly follows my experience playing up until I got stuck.
And I can safely say that this game has potential but it feels as if they've squandered it. Gameplay is weird, might be a bit delayed if servers aren't out for where I live, but overall it feels fine, I played as a fighter and I didn't mind it, not being restricted to one class is always refreshing, especially when I can switch whenever I want, it let me experiment with classes a bit even if I primarily played as a fighter, just switching my subclass more then anything.
Character creation is easy to get through, pick a race, a look, a class, no trouble at all. Then I get presented with the story, and a - in my opinion - big issue, gear is just handed to me on a silver platter, gear far far stronger then what I currently have, alright, I equip it, progress with the story.
Systems will just show up, be explained, and then not really elaborated on, I think it'd be better to either give these systems to me slowly over time, or don't introduce them until I start to look in to something that relates to those system, e.g I want to enhance a weapon so I go inspect, and then there's some option which will guide me to where to do that and explain it to me.
Alright, keep moving through the story, so far so good, lots of characters that I don't particularly care about showing up, and soon after I had finished the first chapter or area or whatever, by now I was actually enjoying the game I was in to it and eager to play it all the way to end game, or at least post story. Then I clear the second chapter with some similar issues as the first, but overall still fine.
Then comes the start of the third chapter, suddenly I'm under levelled, all the gear the game had been so gracefully gifting me along the way had worn out it's welcome, and I need new gear, the game explains some methods to getting more power, but doesn't point me in the direction of powerful enough gear at their base level just ways to enhance, and the gains I make are quite small.
Now needing to enhance gear to progress is very... Mobile game-esque, but not inherently bad, but giving me a drip feed attached to an IV of equipment that carries me through the game gives me the impression that the game will do this the whole way through, and I'm suddenly left high and dry. And my only thoughts are how I want to progress the story.
My memory is a bit hazy, but I did give getting equipment a go, I scoured the map, collected points on the map, tried enhancing my gear until I just... Stopped playing, this game had potential but honestly squandered it by doing this. They should really dedicate either to 100% holding my hand all the way, or make me work for equipment and upgrades from the start so I don't get an information overload when I need it. Maybe I'll jump on eventually and play again and try to finish the story that's currently out.
And I can safely say that this game has potential but it feels as if they've squandered it. Gameplay is weird, might be a bit delayed if servers aren't out for where I live, but overall it feels fine, I played as a fighter and I didn't mind it, not being restricted to one class is always refreshing, especially when I can switch whenever I want, it let me experiment with classes a bit even if I primarily played as a fighter, just switching my subclass more then anything.
Character creation is easy to get through, pick a race, a look, a class, no trouble at all. Then I get presented with the story, and a - in my opinion - big issue, gear is just handed to me on a silver platter, gear far far stronger then what I currently have, alright, I equip it, progress with the story.
Systems will just show up, be explained, and then not really elaborated on, I think it'd be better to either give these systems to me slowly over time, or don't introduce them until I start to look in to something that relates to those system, e.g I want to enhance a weapon so I go inspect, and then there's some option which will guide me to where to do that and explain it to me.
Alright, keep moving through the story, so far so good, lots of characters that I don't particularly care about showing up, and soon after I had finished the first chapter or area or whatever, by now I was actually enjoying the game I was in to it and eager to play it all the way to end game, or at least post story. Then I clear the second chapter with some similar issues as the first, but overall still fine.
Then comes the start of the third chapter, suddenly I'm under levelled, all the gear the game had been so gracefully gifting me along the way had worn out it's welcome, and I need new gear, the game explains some methods to getting more power, but doesn't point me in the direction of powerful enough gear at their base level just ways to enhance, and the gains I make are quite small.
Now needing to enhance gear to progress is very... Mobile game-esque, but not inherently bad, but giving me a drip feed attached to an IV of equipment that carries me through the game gives me the impression that the game will do this the whole way through, and I'm suddenly left high and dry. And my only thoughts are how I want to progress the story.
My memory is a bit hazy, but I did give getting equipment a go, I scoured the map, collected points on the map, tried enhancing my gear until I just... Stopped playing, this game had potential but honestly squandered it by doing this. They should really dedicate either to 100% holding my hand all the way, or make me work for equipment and upgrades from the start so I don't get an information overload when I need it. Maybe I'll jump on eventually and play again and try to finish the story that's currently out.