Recent reviews by Robmart

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Good clicker game but very P2W

TL;DR: This is a really good game. Like a 9/10 so far. I recommend playing to at least level thirty to see if you want to continue or not.

Disclaimer: Only level 30 or so, I'm not close to endgame.

Looking at my list of pros/cons you would think my opinion of the game would be negative. It is not. The good parts of the game outweigh the negative so heavily that I barely notice any of it while playing.

Scores:
+ Good
++ Really good
+++ Fantastic
+++++ Godly

- Bad
-- Really bad
--- OOF

Pros:
+++++Combat feels and plays awesomely
+++Dungeons are great fun
++The set pieces are great, especially the last one in West Luterra. (You know the one.)
++Lots of fun collectables
+++Arena PVP is completely scaled. Only skill involved.

Mixed:
+-A lot of grinding (it's a Korean game, what did you expect.)
+--The English voice acting is all over the place. Most of the VA is terrible, but a few stand out as quite good, such as Kharmine. (You can switch to the original Korean VA which is probably better.)

Cons:
---EU servers have endless queues and no servers for specific languages, which means endless wars in zone chat. Lots of "[Non-English language]" vs "F### off speak English."
--Next to no chat moderation and the language filter is terrible. It doesn't pick up on the N-word.
--Story is garbage for the most part. Don't play this for the story.
---English localization is also garbage. Misspellings, missed words, using different words in subtitles and voice acting. Quite frankly they should have done a better job. Edit: One character in *the main story* introduces herself as Elise... her name is Elia.
--Pay to win. By this I mean the Josh Strife Hayes meaning of P2W: "The more money you spend, the bigger your gameplay advantage. If you can keep putting money in [infinitely] and getting a bigger advantage then your game is P2W." (paraphrased)
-Collectables give gameplay advantages which means they are most likely mandatory for high level players
-Guild v Guild and island PVP is *not* scaled which means the person with a bigger wallet wins.

Best PDX game in a while, has the potential to be better than CK2 in less than a year.

Sorry for the rambly/disconnected nature of this review

So far it is quite enjoyable. While I have not done any endgame content yet, the parts of the game I have experienced so far are quite good. As for the new player experience, I have no idea what is going on in the story at all since they cut stuff out, so if you are looking for a story game this is probably not it.

While the UI is visually impressive it is also quite confusing to navigate. Also achievement (triumph) pop-ups take up a good 1/5 of the screen which is way too much.

The fact that there are no levels is a negative in my book. Power (basically iLvL) starts at 1100, which is also quite confusing to me, (probably a holdover from old content/system?)

Tried PvP once, got one-shotted around 30 times.

One of the best ARPGs out there. Not that there are that many of them, but you get what I mean.

A decent MMORPG. Definitely top 5 in genre... which doesn't say much since there are only like 5 decent MMOs lol.

Nice

What the ♥♥♥♥ are you doing, just buy it already!