Gameplay and Overall Game World
The gameplay itself is an amalgamation of different gameplay features from different games which makes it fun to play around but at the end it feels like a huge
sandbox to play around with, the gameplay leaves a clear impression of an MMORPG made to grind and make players spend money on in-game purchases, even though
the game is a single-player game the game retains it's a tedious chore like gameplay, at first its fun, but slowly it starts getting annoying and tedious,
like the quests where a NPC guides you to a marked area halfway through says you go ahead I have something to do or whatever, wasting time on purpose, and this
is not one off instance the game is heavily padded that is the entire game is artificially padded to consume more play time, like you want to upgrade your armour
or weapon then be prepared spend hours and hours and hours of your time farming materials to upgrade your armour and then repeat it for your weapon, now if you
find another weapon or armour fancy which you definitely will, you have to repeat the farming again, on the topic of upgrade almost all weapons in this game
have similar stats with a minor difference here and there and some weapons that do have nice bonus like extra critical rate guess what? The weapon damage is capped
compared to other weapons It's almost always 5~10 points less and with the bonus critical rate being low around 1~2 points they have very low chance to trigger
that makes the weapon pretty useless to use in long run so the real reliance and definition of weapon stats comes from Abyss gears which can be slotted in weapons
if they have slots for them, and wouldn't you know? Some powerful weapons don't have this slot at all why? Because they have 5~10 points in their damage compared
to normal weapons, cool, and they have status effects like fire or lightning etc but guess what? They have cooldowns so it's not you can spam the status effects.
Heh so anyway Abyss gears? These things are another level of tedious to farm because they are divided in 3 levels 1, 2, 3 and the higher number has better stats,
sooo the thing is their drop rate is poor, and you can synthesize lvl2 out of lvl1 and lvl3 out of lvl2 but for that you got to have enough of them again good luck farming them.
Overall game world as you have already seen is vast and populated, but the problem is the world is pretty dead, the NPC are purely scripted unless it's quest specific
they are very basic NPC for a game of this scale and price you would expect better maybe NPC with their own routines, but sadly there's none, a NPC chopping wood
in a forest would be still chopping wood in midnight that to the same tree, the market and all stores don't have anytime NPC don't sleep basically no routine,
now for some players they would ignore this going on about exploring the map which brings me to second part of this review.
IN GAME TRAVERSAL
The game forces you to either walk/run or use horse (other animals) as your primary mode of transport even though the game has other type of mount namely
a HotAir balloon a dragon as well as a mech, now the problem here is all these three mounts are heavily restricted with cool down and dragon and mech have usage
time limit so pretty much you can't use them for long play times even if you want to even though these two mounts are pretty late game items like unless you have
spent around 100~ hours you won't be getting your hands on these but still restricted, like hot air balloon has the restriction of getting destroyed if you land...
And then it has a cooldown as well which is similar to dragon which is 1~3 hours(I'm not completely sure about the time here) this time is in real life and it
will progress only while playing the game not like oh well I will come back an hour later, or I will sleep in game yeah that won't work.
THE STORY
The entire story runs as if it's written by a LLM like ChatGPT, it's simply bad and inconstant but honestly if you are looking for story in the game you are
at the worst place possible even I jumped in knowing that story was dog-shit, and it didn't disappoint but damn it's bad.
POWERING UP/Levelling UP
Now in the game the only thing levelling up gives you is Abyss artifacts think of them as attribute points you will use to enhance your power, as far as I can tell
it caps at around 100~110 artifacts from each character I presume as there are 3 characters, now the annoying part these artifacts are nowhere enough to make
you powerful to cheese enemies yup not happening, for that you need more and even reaching 100 artifacts will take considerable amount of time and killing mobs
but there are other ways to get Abyss artifacts, that is through puzzles.....the annoying part is all the puzzles are tedious, and you are always left to figure
out how the fuck should I do this? In some puzzles i have spent hours to understand what or how should i do it only to give up and look up online walkthroughs,
putting it simply the puzzles are terrible and unnecessary.
TLDR: The game is a massive open world which has scripted dead NPC with no dynamic routine, with heavy focus on grinding and the game artificially inflates the
player's play time by artificially restricting them in one form or another after a set amount of time the entire game feels like a chore, and with non-existent story
the game remains nothing but a sandbox, where you can do time pass.
To the potential buyers out there I would suggest getting the game on sale as you are really not missing anything and hopefully in future patches the game is further enhanced and improved upon.