Recent reviews by Shana

I love me some good horror... when I am with friends... On my own? I'm scared...
I am writing this review to delay me being scared cuz my god... does this game do it right...

The game is great and is proof of a live service done right...

The only downside is that of Sony forcing people to make a PSN account so they can pad their numbers for investors.
Lets not forget the countless past times Sony had their database hacked or leaked...

For an SAO game as a whole, it is lacking, especially compared to past games like Hollowed Realization or Fatal Bullet (Even Alicization Lycoris has more). But for a sendoff of the SAO Gameverse, its alright. Its nice to have the large roster to play around with, and its a nice touch to see what everyone was up to after the ending of the game, even if it was a brief telling with a sentence or two. As a Fatal Bullet fan I did love seeing the GGO Player mentioned a few times when talking to some of the characters from GGO.

Recommend? Eh... if you wanna know how the story ends, yeah sure.
If you want a good game... well unless you really enjoyed Lycoris, no. You'd probably have a better time completing Hollow Realization or Fatal Bullet (Or Hollowed Fragment... or Lost Song... or that Accel World VS SAO game lol)

You can give your pals guns and tell them to go do crimes. Highly recommend.

Came for the new action game, great story, and wonderful world...

Stayed for the action, world, and story.......
And Cagliostro.

The last thing I expected going into this game was an interesting story... Also she is pretty cute.

Feb 29th, 2024 (New):
Honestly the issue i had back during the EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) update fixed itself after some time away. Haven't really had any issues since thankfully. A load of worlds have come and gone, loads of avatars, and as well loads of friends. I can foresee this game sticking around for many years to come, and I'm interested in seeing where it will be in say... 10 - 20 years. Maybe by then we will have full dive capabilities.

This game is best experienced in VR with friends, but honestly you are missing out if you wait til you have VR to play. My first 300 hours were in desktop mode, and pushed me to saving up for a VR headset. If you haven't given this game a try yet, do yourself a favor and hop in for a few hours and check out as many worlds as you can.

After all this time, I can recommend this platform to others, even after the hiccup that was the EAC update.


I'm leaving my old review back when the EAC update happened.
EAC Update Review (Old):
I loved every moment of my time within this game... however the recent EAC update broke the client for me and will leave me on a forever black screen after logging in and loading my home world. Tried everything to see about fixing but nothing works, so I leave this review and bid this game a fairwell.

The 633 hours was fun while it lasted, I made many friends and met some wonderful people on here, however its time to move on.... to another social VR platform that actually works.

Imo its Rust meets Diablo meets action rpg... mixed with a vampire aesthetic

I've only reached level 30ish in terms of power in my time playing and man is it a load of fun, especially with friends. Bosses are engaging and still a threat even after you over level them.

"Its not published by Gameforge. Need I say more?" ~Shana, May 13th 2021

Update (10/24/2024):
Overclocking...? Just call it +15 and be done with the fancy wording... its a glorified system that steals all your money, with layers of RNG bs that if you fail even one attempt it knocks you down in levels back to +9 AND "meltdowns" the weapon giving you a power penalty making the weapon worthless unless you have a special item that prevents that from happening...

And where, pray tell, do you get this special item? Cash shop... and only cash shop.

+15 gets 900% incease in a weapon's attack stat (also 900% on armor too for defense) so they will be required if you are going to ranking... and I fear they will balance future raids around you having Overclocking upgrades on your weapon.... this is after you get through the already bs upgrade costs that is +0 to +9 for endgame gear, which from +0 to +1 is a 50/50 coinflip if you get the upgrade or fail it...

Do not play this game if you are looking to do high end ranking or raids without swipping your cards... Avoid this pay to win bull at all costs... This game has fallen... and its not getting back up UNLESS they give us some way to farm for cash shop items with in game currencies.

As a player of this game since Gameforge beta days, this push for P2W saddens me greatly...
I can no longer recommend this game to anyone. Period.

(Update: 2/29/2024)
It has been quite some time since I've last played this game. I can't deny that the game is fun, story gets good during or past the 2nd city (depending on what character you start with), combat is engaging and fast, and the fashion is cute with its Anime style.

But the game can easily become a grindfest the later you get, but that is to be expected given its a Korean based MMO. The game does have some Pay to Win elements, or Pay to Progress quicker, but its free to play so things like this is expected these days.

I've made countless lifelong friends in my time on SoulWorker, and across its various versions... Gameforge, JP, KR, Global, and even Burning. This game will forever be a mark in my history, and will always be something I look back to fondly for all of the good times I had.

Will I ever return? Probably not, but I will keep in installed and updated in case I decided to just hop on for an hour or so and go kill some bosses, enjoy the combat for a bit before I leave again for some time.

Do I recommend it?
Honestly... depends on what you like, who you are as a person and what you want out of the game. I still love this game for what it was, and the fondness I have with how much its left a mark in my life. For this review, however, I will not recommend if you dislike Grindy, somewhat P2W games...

Also I heard they upped the cap on upgrading from +9 to +15... or are going to at the time of writing this... +9 was already a pain to get... so fair warning.

Little Witch Nobeta was honestly one of the best early access game I have played in a while. While yes it does have that Dark Souls feel (which gave it the title of Loli Dark Souls from players) it is still different with its monsters, spells, and mechanics to make it feel different from other Souls games.

Looking forward to seeing what the rest of the game is like after Early Access... and also... ♥♥♥♥ Monica...