Recent reviews by Neo Android

Port is awful, the controller barely works and you cant force the game to use the correct layout. Dont waste your money on this at all. Also it crashes ALOT. It was released in 2016 and now 2023 and its still awful

I'm enjoying the game immensely, i'd recommend it if your a Final Fantasy fan. There are some peculiar design choices, such as no towns to explore, and it being a fully linear experience comparative to previous Final Fantasy's 10 and 12. The cast of characters is pretty good too, Lighting, Snow, Vanille and Sazh being standouts, i'm not a huge fan of Hopes whining so his character grates on me occasionally.

Performance and Graphically speaking the game is still gorgeous even without any mods. The areas you go through are well designed and unique as does the character models. Performance of this title is pretty mixed, it can reach 60FPS but caps at 30FPS in battles. There is frame stuttering, the best work around is to cap the framerate at 30fps for the entire game. It just makes it a more smooth experience imo.

But yeah, its definitely an enjoyable experience, and is an underappreciated Final Fantasy. Can't wait to finish it and start FFXIII-2!

Its a great game, one of the most fun experiences i have had out of a game in 2021. Also if your like me and read comics you will be happy to know that alot of love and respect of the source material is in the game!

I cannot wait to see the next Marvel game from this studio

Fantastic Art Direction, Fun Combat, Compelling Story.

This game is basically playing off the fact it resembles World of Warcraft vanilla, and whilst thats true in the graphical sense of its world maps. It cant be said its true for anything else. World of Warcraft from the moment you boot it up hooks you with characters,races, lore and a world that you wish to invest time in. ASTA however does not, it wears the paint job of WoW and Blade and Soul well but falls flat at everything else.

Lack of Diversity between Jobs; for example instead of their being a rogue and an archer why isnt this one class that can use bows and daggers. This would free a slot up for another job, especially since if you want to play a healer but like to have options you dont you only have 1 healing job you can chose from, same in regard to mage dps.

Limited Character Creation: The Characters are beautiful and thats all there is to say because thats all the CC lets you make. Your basically limited to a preset and a selection of uniformed Japanese styled Hair (some are lovely). What ever you decide to change only applies to that preset, you cannot say chose Preset 1 and try and make her lips like preset 3. It wont work, you may have sliders but the sliders are there to only give the illusion of creation since all your doing is changing colours or making arms bigger/smaller etc, and in the end it doesnt look much changed after toggling.

However bonus points for adding a preset of a "Larger" woman in a MMO thats based around a society that depicts women to be petite norms and anything different "strange" or "unattractive"

Gameplay: The gameplay is tab targetting, the animations are on point, however it feels older than it actually is. The gameplay systems take inspiration from games such as Vanilla WoW, Aion, EverQuest, Lineage, the earlier tab targetting games. It does well in that respect but it doesnt bring anything new to the table that can be pointed at and commended for.

If you enjoy the older Tab Targeting games you may find something you value here more than myself, and if so im happy that you have.

The UI however is best described as "WoW" like again. Its not intrusive but it does tend to be annoying with all the pop ups the moment you enter the game after you attack again if you been away. However customzation seems like an option that you Could do with the UI i didnt bother looking since i was already rather annoyed with the constant text pop ups blocking my actual view of the game.

Theres alot of little text boxes that sometimes just appear all at once on your screen trying to explain one thing after another to you. Whilst this is usually good for players it doesnt feel progressive theres no actual on screen instructions with images showing you how to do something like enchanting, etc. And its alot to remember for newer players to MMO's in general. It needs to be streamlined to feel more organic to the player and the world.

Story and Quests: Not gonna lie the story is not voice acted very well at all, there seems to be NO option to use the original voice overs, if there were any. It is immerisan breaking when the cutscenes sound like someone put the script through an English Text - Speech to programme, and the delivery feels very robotic and makes you not care because obviously the developers didnt with the delivery we got.

The Quests are block reads just like many MMO's there is nothing special. Its still the good ol' Kill, Fetch, Do This Favor, And Now This One, etc quests were use to.

Whilst the Lore has an intresting premise in regard to how it was presented when selecting a faction it seems to disperse as you continue on. The story if there is not great, but then it is fair to say there promoting it as a Story Rich MMO.

Final Thoughts: This game will appeal to some people due to the reason's it didnt appeal to me, and thats perfect since gaming is all about opinions. However i would only recommend this to someone i knew who was after a quick joint for an old school MMO and liked WoW's style doesnt care story or job diversitys.

Should you play it? Well its FTP 8GB Download so you can decide for yourself if your still really intrested. But i believe with there being other MMO's such as Tera, Aion, SWTOR, Blade and Soul, Revelation, etc that are also FTP go try them first because they all atleast have something "unqiue" to them.

If you do like the game, great! I am truly happy for you :)
Everyone has an opinion there entitled to. This is my review of the game i played.

Enjoy What You Enjoy, Dont Worry What Others Think!

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- Neo Android

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