Recent reviews by SDLee82

Painful 1 hour with brainless team mates

★★★☆☆

When i was playing mass effect 2 on xbox 360, I had chance to play kingdoms of amalur (as KOA) demo version. And this demo game gave me a good time. So i bought this one.

Anyway that's personal history. :) Return to the subject, 'KOA' presents the new fantasy world about 'Rule of Cycle', 'Immortal Fea', 'Crystal War', 'Fateless One'... and so on. And these things are showed with beautiful graphic (not mean good quality).

Also this game contains many thing to do. After tutorial, you will be faced a lot of quests. Even sometimes these quests make me confusing. You can collect regents or shards to create potions or gems. And you can breakdown equipment and salvage gears to make weapons or armors.

And battle system is good. Even this is a RPG game. You can against your enemy by combo, air combo, combat ability and reckoning mode. Various weapons, skills, destinies (like specialized jobs) give you joyful choice. Even you think 'I made a wrong choices', don't worry, you can return to level 1 with all skill points. And reckoning mode is awesome, you become a powerful one and you can do fate-shift (like finish blow). I always felt catharsis when i finished a strong enemy by fate-shift.

But 'KOA' also has bad things. First and Worst thing is '38 Studios (developer of 'KOA') was closed without 'KOA' licence sold. That means no more updates, DLCs and 'Kingdoms of Amalur II' :(

And character customization is awful. May be, you have bad feeling, when you make your player. Because character customization has very little selections to make your face. Then your worry become a problem of game play. You can see a NPC what have exactly same your face with different hair color. But that's not a problem, i can imagine he is a my doppelganger or unknown my brother who was seperated at childhood (in game story). But real problem is same faces NPCs are too many to focus story line. For example, You will meet a mentor who guide you in arcana faction quest, and he will send you to the archimage. (I skip many things to prevent spoiler). Then... you will see a same mentor face archimage with white hair. WTF, Even they are major NPCs of faction quest, they have same face!!! except hair color!!!! This problem will teases you until final battle.

Other thing is the low level cap. If you are a person who complete all quest in the game (not repeat quests), you can reach level 40 (max level), soon. In my case, i could reach level 40 after siege of mel senshir. Probably i could do that because i finished 'The Legend of Dead Kel' and 'Teeth of Naros' before cross the ocean. Then i lost my purpose of side quests and battles. Level cap must be higher than level 40 to make player can push forward.

Anyway 'KOA' is a good RPG game. If it was not, i didn't get all achievements of this game. 'KOA' is a new IP game what has potential to be a great franchise game. But it's a shame, future of 'KOA' is unclear.

Single play : ★★★★☆ - Recommended to someone who play only single story mode.

Multi play : ★★☆☆☆ - Not recommended to someone who want to play competition mode.

Single play is great like a well made action block buster movie. And it's exactly what i wanted from this game. I felt same emotion when i saw ending credit of COD4 MW. Well... some loophole of story and Kevin stacy's lifeless eyes were acceptable for my standard. And other minor demerits were tolerable things. Because this game had exciting experiences for FPS gamer.

Other hands.... in multi play is awful. They promised dedicate server or stable network service. But there is nothing. Series of COD always had lagging problem but i felt advanced warfare had worst network environment than modern warfare. Someone sad tricky exo move made this problem, but i didn't feel bad network service on titan fall what was more tricky movements game play. Supply drop or custom outfit system were good. They merged good side of black ops and ghosts. But server quality screwed up all good side of multi play.