알케미아 스토‪리‬ 12+

First off, yes this game is now in English. If any of you remember Asobimo’s old Celes Arc and have been missing it, this will be up your alley. First off, the visuals are phenomenal and massively beyond what this dev has done in the past. Controls are smooth and responsive. Like Celes Arca, for an MMO, this is heavy on the story which is nice. Also like Celes, battle is chrono trigger turned based where you can engage enemies by walking to them to start an event...or freely walk into an event started by another player. The VR was a really good touch where you go into first person and can view the world as if you were there...with good depth perception.

The only issues I have are that sometimes the text isn’t properly formatted and sticks out of the dialogue boxes. The other is that this game definitely still feels like it’s in the early phase as there aren’t many town buildings one can explore yet. The third is a hope for the expansion of the VR feature. It would be nice if we could use controllers so that we can have full exploration capacity in this mode rather than relying on locked run or auto quest run to feel like we’re exploring in first person. It would also be nice to be able to use the walk speed in first person and not only when in 3rd person.

As expected from the makers of Avabel online and Toram online, this one is even better. The graphics and the maps or gorgeous, with detail in every little corner, and it’s fun seeing the little animations here and there (which are also very, very detailed). The combat system is fun for me, whereas instead of tapping and spamming skills and avoiding red circles (sometimes), this takes a bit more strategy here and there, with the critical and elemental system to take in mind as well as the skills casting various buffs & debuffs. There’s an enormous amount of jobs (classes), each one granting bonus stats and having unique skills. Players aren’t limited to specific skills due to a class restriction (but please, consider having the NPC display ALL classes at once, not just 4). Walking around takes some time and spending coins on teleporting can be pricey, so I suggest mounts (Not the kinds the give bonus stats, just some that give movement speed). Getting gear and weapons is easy since earning gems is also easy making it “non-p2w”. I’d also suggest more guides, even official ones to explain the game’s mechanics more (ex, damage limit). Also a way to skip storyline quicker since some of us players simply want to jump in and start hacking at creatures.

This game is fun and addictive. Way better than Unison league because the drops are fair but still random and there is a really interesting story. Usually, MMORPGS are known to have boring stories that just drag on to prolong the game but I was really surprised that this game didn't make me hit the skip button when they were talking about the plot. It goes into heavy themes like morals, cults/religion, and war. I really liked the voice acting (one of the female YOME va sounds lifeless so heads up). But even so their are a lot of concerns. Such as the miss spellings and the text going off the screen makes it hard to tell what the character is saying. One major concern I have is the voice overs. After chapter 50 of the main quest, the voice over can't be heard. I thought it was a glitch but when I go further on I still don't hear the voices. The background music is still there so I am confused as to what the problem is. Did the budget cut out the voice acting, is it a software problem, or are they still recording the audio for it? I really would like to know. Great game but it doesn't feel complete.