Take a pretty good concept: Side Scrolling MMORPGS now make them boring and repetitive as hell and you get Elsword!
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Points total:10.0 Points lost: .5
Points left: 9.5
Audio: In terms of audio this game has it's flaws. For instance some music makes you feel bored and not the preferred feeling of epic. Other pieces are just amazing, upbeat and bringing powerful rhythm into something that deserves it such as boss fights. I personally think the devs in this case decided to put all the work into the fast songs and didn't spend enough time on the old ones. The sound effect sounded pretty good, and I can't complain about voices.
Points total:9.5
Points lost:2.0
Points left:8.5
Gameplay: This is the big one. This is where most of the points are lost actually, mainly because this game is fun first, but gets boring as hell in the seventh hour. No joke, I've gotten two friends to play it. We got bored. Very, very, quickly. The quests only make it worse. Mainly because I have to do a whole map (they get boring quick) just to get a quest finished. There's no point in in game currency because I can just wait to heal. All the bosses difficulty relies on timing. As an Elsword a bit of timing will go far, as any other class range is critical. Either way the bosses are easy, the enemies are boring, and the game is boring. Did I mention the game was boring?. The worst part is that the main quests have you do the revisiting, not the side quest but literally the main quests. Everything about the game except for PVP is underwhelming. Let's move on to PVP, it is insanely fast paced and not a spam my mathematically made attacks. No way, with it being side scrolled timing, accuracy, and running are all key. Gameplay in my opinion really gives you a fun experience, and the fact is: if you manage to be high leveled, the only thing you'll be playing is PVP with the occasional super long quests. Bottom line, while core gameplay is mediocre the **** hits the fan when you have to repeat it about 10 times.
Points total:8.5
Points lost:4
Points left: 4.5 Story:It's pretty simple. The story is predictable. Although I can't really blame it. Part of it revolves around the lack of maps. Without maps I can't have different quests, that = boring boring quests and that = boring boring story. Mediocre story. Although story get's a break for it being smaller in the core reviewing criteria. Bottom line: Skip the walls of text, focus on text scenes.
Points total: 4.5
Points lost: 1.5
Points left: 3.0 Conclusions:
This game sucks, it's painstakingly boring and you'll never have fun playing it, in fact you'll waste tons of hours on one part of the story, only to realize that it too, is boring as hell. See, that's the problem with this game. It's so boring that nothing can save save it, not graphics, not audio, not even the boring story or PVP. So skip this piece of **** and go play Eden Eternal. That's called a fun game.