Tarisland 9+

Really enjoyed this game. I used to play world of kings but that ended up massively pay to win which ruined it for a lot of people unlike this game. Love the level cap for someone like myself who doesn’t have all the time in the world to play after working.

Only thing id like introduced in this game would be visual changes to gear like a normal mmorpg which is why I can’t give it an overall 5/5

Today is the first time I’ve tried to log in using my data on my dinner break but when I click to get into the server it doesn’t work.

Explore the map of the first zone. Half of it is completely empty and clearly unfinished, with messed up texturing and geometry. A lot of content is copied from World of Warcraft. It’s badly translated and littered with typos, roll a female character and you’re frequently referred to as ‘he’, the VA often doesn’t match the subtitles; and most of it is unnatural-sounding text-to-speech synthesis. There’s very little world building or lore, with no rationale for the placement of buildings objects and paths in the world. There’s no turn animations on mounts. Players pop in and out of view and stutter along. UI’s are a confusing mess with many stats and features poorly explained. All gameplay mechanics are time-gated; from main quest to crafting to auction house to PvP. The dungeons have bots. The monetisation is absurd with £21 battle passes and £42 skins. There’s dozens of different currencies, and accidentally spending one can block progress due to daily caps. There’s no variety of gear (it’s all tiered) and no visual gear progression. PvP is full of people who haven’t read game objectives and matchmaking is poor. And there’s no line of sight resulting in you getting hit behind walls.

The game is essentially smoke and mirrors disguising a bad quality exploitative monetisation machine from a crowd that doesn’t know any better.

I’m an Eve Online player, I’ve played Asherons Call and WoW and most recently Diablo Immortal ... Tarlisland is very easy to get into and I’m converted !!! The scenery is beautiful as are the characters. It leads you in and gradually exposes the wealth of options. It can be a little overwhelming knowing what everything is and does but it’s like that at the release of mmos until people min-max everything and you know what to focus on.

Battles are fun, the button pressing combos take getting used to but this is a very enjoyable game.

There’s a lot of payment options for cosmetics which is a bit meh, not a fan of that. I’d prefer if cosmetics were purely craftable/attainable through quests. Seems like on day 1 paying players have already got the best cosmetics, but saying that the characters are gorgeous so cosmetically nobody looks like a tramp anyway.

The major downside for me is the storyline. I don’t really care about it because it doesn’t grab me. The npcs that lead you have forced and sometimes cheesy dialogue, and it frequently plays a cut scene and cuts of a line of dialogue just before the end of the sentence, which is a bit shabby. Also character classes are gender locked, but in the grand scheme of things these really don’t take away from what’s a very enjoyable, nay, fantastic game.