This is one of the most shallow ARPGs I've ever played.

The combat completely misses out on the point of ARPG-style skills, opting instead for an excessive number of generic attack skills all set up with arbitrary cooldowns to juggle for no added benefit. There's a mana bar, but I can't fathom what it would ever be used for as you regen faster than your skill cooldowns. I'll admit it might work different for another class, or perhaps become relevant after leveling up some more and skills might get more expensive... but I can't see how that would make it any better.

It's clearly designed to waste your time like the most grindy of MMOs, where every quest to slay X monster is interspersed with talking to several different NPCs at separate locations, every map-traversal animation is long for no reason, and cutscenes/dialogs/menu animations have a lot of padding.

Beyond the feel of the gameplay, it's really upsetting to see two different instances of Class selections using the same name, just being split by gender. When "Martial Artist (Male)" and "Martial Artist (Female)" are two separate classes entirely for no reason, it's pretty annoying. Even discounting the gender politics of it, why are they even the same name if they're entirely different classes?

I will say I did enjoy the Character creation screen. They clearly put a decent amount of effort into it. The voice acting is a decent display of talent, too (although I question some of the decisions the Director made on certain lines' tone and pacing).

Overall, I am immensely unimpressed, and do not recommend this game.

This is one of the most shallow ARPGs I've ever played. The combat completely misses out on the point of ARPG-style skills, opting instead for an excessive number of generic attack skills all set up with arbitrary cooldowns to juggle for no added benefit. There's a mana bar, but I can't fathom what it would ever be used for as you regen faster than your skill cooldowns. I'll admit it might work different for another class, or perhaps become relevant after leveling up some more and skills might get more expensive... but I can't see how that would make it any better. It's clearly designed to waste your time like the most grindy of MMOs, where every quest to slay X monster is interspersed with talking to several different NPCs at separate locations, every map-traversal animation is long for no reason, and cutscenes/dialogs/menu animations have a lot of padding. Beyond the feel of the gameplay, it's really upsetting to see two different instances of Class selections using the same name, just being split by gender. When "Martial Artist (Male)" and "Martial Artist (Female)" are two separate classes entirely for no reason, it's pretty annoying. Even discounting the gender politics of it, why are they even the same name if they're entirely different classes? I will say I did enjoy the Character creation screen. They clearly put a decent amount of effort into it. The voice acting is a decent display of talent, too (although I question some of the decisions the Director made on certain lines' tone and pacing). Overall, I am immensely unimpressed, and do not recommend this game.