What do you know? The servers went down for patching…
So I am catching a moment to update my first impression of the game. In a word: slick. Very slick. The voices are simply brilliant and spot on accents. The graphics have a sort of smoothing at distance that fits the game very well. The interface uses a letter box format that forces the graphics into wide screen, this is great. The quality of the graphics is above SWG on my card, with things like water effects etc. The menus and windows customisations are also very good. I can change font sizes, slit off combat spam, etc, etc. Everything you would expect from the third generation MMO is here and correct.
The combat is hard or easy depending on how quickly you get to learn Heroic Op’s. These special combo’s give you something to do whilst fighting and add significantly to the success (or failure) of any battle. Grouping is very easy and slick too.
But the real hats off moment comes for both animation, which is stunning, and quests. The quests journal is simply brilliant. This game is like a online version of morrowind - which is a dream RPG people have long wished for.
My progress is currently at level 5 and I am still on the starter island. I have met a group and taken on a group only mob who was tough enough! I am looking forwards to guilding in this game a lot.
I know I am on the tightly scripted starter island but the lag hasnt been an issue so far. Only a few frames have been dropped in over 4 hours of playing. A good achivment. Lets see how this fairs once I get into the first city.
My character is a Human Warrior called Yagyu. Can you believe that my all time name of Basho is reserved!? I mean common! So I have chosen the name of the famous Samurai Yagyu Munenori (Creator of the No - Sword style of combat), this at least isnt as well known as the great Basho. Here is an image of him
I am currently on the highkeep server.
Further posts to come!
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