Recent reviews by Jakazin

Surprisingly addicting

Decent game

Still great game after all these years.

Very good "niche" gacha game. Very f2p friendly, can clear all content with a well built account and 0$ spent.
Focuses a lot on story so if you skip you'll be missing out!
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Game has a couple of good ideas, like the combat sinergies and i also like the obscure/mistery vibe, aswell as some cool aesthetic choices like the gacha animation and the "curved tv display" the menu had.

That said, there's a reason the game is in early access. It's missing a lot of sound, bgm, effects, and voices. Hit effects are too loud and sometimes they overlay on eachother for some annoying effects.

Graphics are fine in general, but there are several elements that need work: many visual effects are too blurry/grainy and make the gameplay feel worse.
The camera is pretty bad: it moves around a large circle and not around the character so moving it feels weird and dizziness inducing. Also colliding with a wall, camera zooms in and ruins/adds chaos to the combat, especially when you do your ultimate/special abilities.

As for the combat, the normal attacks are fine, combat is decently fluid, double jump a bit scuffed. They added the ability to attack while airborne but it's not well implemented yet. The character sometimes fails to attack and you have to keep pressing until it does. Dodge ability is not super reliable, you get stuck in animation for the 90% of the combat, so avoiding attacks is not as easy (this might be a design choice)

Characters have passives that you unlock with copies. They also have weapons and armor that comes as a floppy disk cartridge. You get the weapons from gacha but armor from special encounters under the campaigns menu.

Rates are the usual 2%. Pity seems to be 50 but it might just be a temporary bonus for new players/game launch.

I havent found a shop yet, so idk what they sell but i'd assume the usual growth upgrade consumables + skins.

Game needs major polish, but i like the sinergy combos in combat. More of that. Fix the camera, remove the weird blurry low scaled effects, add voices and bgm = good game.

TLDR: Game is ok at best, extreme predatory scum p2w, play another arpg. Rip.

I Played the demo for 35 hours. Made it to act 3 with all 3 classes.

The game is ok actually, but the devs took the time and effort to make the experience of f2p as miserable as possible. I'm the guy who spends money in f2p games if they're good games, pricing is fine, and devs actually care and presented a solid product, but this game doesnt have any of that.
Gameplay is a bit scuffed and the game in general has a unpolished feel overall, but you can still enjoy the game.
Movement + Skill usage in combat has a weird "pause snap" that makes dogding and kiting quite hard to do.

The main problem here is the shop and how they set up the game so you're constantly restrained in convenience/inventory management/straight up upgrade materials and more. Everything you see in the game in terms of upgrades/runelink changers is available to purchase on the shop. All the main important upgrade tools are there for you to whale on and get an instant power boost over other people.
You can buy all the exclusive tabs to store all the 50+ different materials, potions, scrolls that the game throws at you. You have 0 as f2p, only the bank, and mats inside the bank dont count when accessing their upgrade/crafting panels.

This would be somewhat acceptable if the prices werent so insane.
This is the textbook predatory p2w strat they're doing:
-Paid currency is Diamond, converts into Ruby in 1:1
-Diamond packs available for purchase are set in an scummy clever way to never be the exact number you need to buy certain things, it's either too much, or not enough, forcing you to buy either multiple small packs, or big packs. Making you spend more than the amount you need in both options.
-Prices are extremely high for QoL things that everybody needs, like dedicated special material stash tabs. (20€ for ONE tab? wtf?)
-Autoloot per ability is not a one time buy, but a rent service.
-You can buy all the rune reforge items, like change link number, link position, and link color. This affects directly your power.
-3 Battle passes that give you even more materials, so if you decide to buy one, you'll end up having to buy the special material pages at some point.

Now, you could say stuff like "but jaka you dont have to compete with the whales, just play f2p and enjoy the game" and that would be a good advice in another game. But they made it so the gameplay is actively ruined by you being f2p.

You constantly have to stop to loot without a pet that picks it up for you automatically. Your inventory of 100 slots quickly fills up with a lot of stuff that you actually need so you get full inventory popup every 10 minutes of combat.

The upgrade materials for your runes are a lot and if you dont buy the storage for them, you have to deposit them in your f2p bank tab. That'd be fine but if they're there they dont count when you access the upgrade panel. They only count if they're in their special stash tab or in your inventory. What a scum tactic.

The game might be fun if it didnt have all of these garbage p2w overpriced mechanics. But sadly it's not.
If you wanna play a good arpg, play PoE.
If you're tired of PoE, you can get Last Epoch for the price of 1 Undecember stash tab, or Grim dawn for half of it. Great Games.

Very good game. worth all the money. Also Kasuga is a suprisingly good new main character, doesnt make you miss Kiryu too much.

I miss the pre-2012 TERA.

The game is good, very fun gameplay, reminds me of arcade games back in the good old days. A lot of class variations. Some are easy, some are very annoying to level up. the fatigue system is a little bit annoying but the game litterally works best the more alts you have, so just make more characters and the moment you have to play 3 classes instead of one, the fatigue system no longer is a problem. The only concerning thing is the weird endgame and gear farming. It was boring to do solo (i had no friend to play this with) but i'm sure that it could be fun to do if you play this with 1 or more ppl. y'know the classic "just chillin with the boys, killing some baddies, farming some loot" kinda philosophy. I didnt play this game in the past year or so so whatever problem it could have now, i might not be aware of.
P.S. i think the collab thing is cool, i love collabs in videogames.

This game is unique: it combines a shop management with dungeoneering activities with various mercenaries. Some of them are so hard to unlock you might have to check some guides online.
It also have a lot of hidden informations, so it may require a wiki to complete your knowledge on the game.
9/10