Recent reviews by Lyvianna

The game, even if outdated by itself, is super fun. Especially with you are playing with friends. There is some weird bugs around though that may ubstruct the gaming experience. The biggest wrench in my play I found out would be the customer support. The most recent subscription would not activate, Steam Support would send me to EA Support, EA Support sends me to Steam Support and I am as a "non subscriber" not eligable for any sort of ticket writing. Thanks EA. Tired of your mess.

lovely to play with friends, it looks super pretty, the music is good and it gives a proper Naval battle feel!

I'm running the game on a machine that is way below minimum requirements and it works just fine, some fps drops here and there, but if you can live without 80fps, its fine.
The game's fun, got a lot of room for costumization, optimization and got all sorts of RPG elements in it.
The story feels good, the fights actually challenging. Dodging+parrying seems a bit finicky (esp the latter one I did not figure out yet at all) and it rewards you for stealth and assassinations (which i did not figure out either).

As a fair warning though: the AI of your mates is stupid af. They will get you killed more often than not, I found myself better off in most situations without a partner helping me do stuff.
I recommend playing it with friends, preferably in VC. It's super fun if you're into that sorta stuff

Can only recommend it!
Shadowbringers is the most recent expansion to an already awesome MMO.
Expanding on the lore, great soundtracks and even better animations, Shadowbringers starts out where Stormblood left off. And it got Eden, too!

Final Fantasy 14 is one of my favorate Online Games I have ever played.
Though you need to buy the base game as well as its expansions and pay for a monthly subscribtion, you get the full package for doing so. There is no pay to win, everything can be achieved purely by playing.
And oh boy, is there much to do and discover!
From emmersive, great designed worlds and characters to a great story and awesome battles.
Those who seek for a truely fun game to play and don't mind this to be a more modern World of Warcraft, this is the game for you. You can sink thousands of hours into this.
Personally, I will likely never get tired of Extreme Mode Raids. And those soundtracks <3

Edit: After many, maaany more hours, having gone a full expansion and about to enter the next one, still no regrets

First off: if you got bad luck and are easy to agitate, or got friends that you may also know by douching you over in UNO: Better don't touch this. This game may very well destroy friendships, computers, controllers and scare pets to death.

100% Orange Juice is a pretty casual Board Game experience with cute characters from all across the board of games developers Orange Juice. Including DLCs, you get a lot of cards, characters, abilities and rigged dice rolls to play around with.
DLC is recommendable to enjoy the game to its fullest, however it ain't as necessary to get everything, since some are just voice packs.
The game is kind of stuck between genius and insanity: it can be incredibly fun to play, or it can be your worst nightmare. Mostly depends on your RNJuices daily sweetness.
Visually the game is very pleasant to look at, however may cause severe cases of overcuteness-seizures, insanity or allergic reactions by "non-weebs".
You'll be able to collect Event items during special events and Oranges to use on Loot Boxes -yay- or fixed- price cosmetic items. Oranges can NOT be bought and only obtained through playing, also you will never receive doubles. Also the game may randomly reward you with a costumisation item if you finish a game. Pretty nice!
The music is spot-on, character themes played during Norma checks are very fitting and very pleasant to listen to. The game has also got a pretty low amount of bugs and a quite balanced board of playable characters avaliable, so you'll mostly meet a different setup every game you play (and end up being bullied by everyone anyway).
Due to its low specs, people with horrible net or laptops may also enjoy this game "on the go".

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ X : Graphics
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ : Music
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ : Characters
♥ ♥ ♥ XX : DLC
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ : Playable for Low Specs
♥ X ♥ X ♥ : Luck based game (rigged as heck against CPUs)
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ : Playable casually without any need for competition
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ : Chance of being bullied
♥ X X X X : Chance of bullying someone succesfully
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ X : Ability to costumise your favorate character
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ : DLC Voice Acting

Pretty fun to play, key binding a bit confusing but overall gorgeous.
The paying-stuff is a bit overkill though, literal P2W
Still would recommend for ppl who are into those kind of games

Simply put: This game is a masterpiece.
The setup is interesting, once you get yourself into the story and theorising with the fanbase, this game is just awesome.
Also the athmosphere gave me the chills!
Sound Design: 10/10
Story Design (including additional media): 10/10
Graphic Design: 10/10
Playstyle: 10/10
Controlling: 9/10 (you may run off edges every now and then, byeee!)
Character design: 10/10 (bosses were legit disgusting and horrible, but that was the whole point)

First of all : I do play this game ever since the Beta in 2010, with some short breaks and switching servers within EU.

About Elsword:

+ cute Anime style game
+ fun to play, lots of action
+ works as a dress-up game for those who care, lots of avatars
+ couple mechanic (for paying users only)
+ newbie friendly, easy to pick up
+ wide variety of characters to chose from, with 3 individual class paths
+ well crafted world with fun dialogues between the characters
+ community being mostly polite (outside PvP)
+ can be run on potato computers, requires higher resolution for all benifits though

- needs a lot of money or farming to get by
- lots of bugs that have not been fixed in years
- horrible support by the publisher Gameforge, who just uses volunteers to get by cheap
- horrible translation and individual EU voice dubs, better just use KR
- horrible patch notes, everyone rather looks up NA's awesome website
- even though this is supposed to be Elsword EU, there's more latinos than anything. Be prepared for laggy dungeons and PvP
- PvP is horribly inbalanced and totally unplayable due to bugs, weird mechanics and lag
- Gameforge takes years to release stuff other servers do have for months.

TL/DR
Elsword is an awesome game if you can cope with some bugs and Pay 2 Win, as it is usual with those korean Free2Play games.
HOWEVER: do not bother with EU. You are very likely better off playing NA/INT over it, if you can pass up the chance to play it in french, polish, italian, german or spanish.
The EU Servers are full off laggy people, so it won't make a difference whether you play on INT or EU.
Also INT is far ahead of EU and got better game support.
I would really love to recommend this game, since I love playing it since the very beginning, but I can't bring myself to do so due to poor publisher management.

A great DLC for a great game:

God Booster by itself usually costs 12€ by itself. You get a premium costume and a loot pot on top of it, so I'd say worth it