Divine Souls F2P MMO

Dungeon based, Gender locked, Combo System? Hey, I played Vindictus for 6 years, completely fine by me. BUT WTF is this? The Animations are SO bad, it hurts. Definitely NOT recommended. It's boring, it's slow, it's ugly. No way.

Figured I'd give this game a try since I enjoy Vindictus. Huge mistake on my part. They bog you down with only 24 inventory slots start. Theres zero autostacking when it comes to quest rewards. Things like the ui and combat I can live with(I have seen worse). Just feels like they want you to pay to not be burdened within the first half hour of the game.

I did not have any expectations for this game. I am aware it's not technically a brand new game. It is however a FREE Third Person Action MMORPG with a ton of equippable items and a huge emphasis on combination attacks. The combinations can get pretty intense but it's all spelled out and even has a UI that displays different buttons you can push to continue a combination. Anyone who is familiar with combination fighting games should have no trouble understanding the mechanics of Divine Souls. The mechanics themselves are also pleasantly fluid and it's easy to engage in battles to unleash a punishing flurry of attacks. The special "charge" attacks are devastating. The RPG element is very big as well and there are seemingly hundreds of missions (a primary story and tons of side-quests). The voice acting is humorous but it gets the job done (there are text subtitles). RPG features include crafting, enchanting, upgrades, an auction house and supports both multi-player and single-player battles. The graphics are not cutting edge but are still smooth and because of this I can run the game in it's supported 1920x1080 resolution with no frame loss. Overall the game is easy to pick up and start having fun right away. I am level 27 right now.

If you like redundant battles with no patches, updates or oversight go for it. I'm thinking they were trying for Vindictus a bit with their dungeon modes to complete quests but failed utterly, which is a real shame because this can sometimes be a fun game. The lack of a community, friends being unable to add you to their friends list or dungeon party make the game play pretty unexciting. You go back into dungeons over and over as the completed quests continue to be quests (but at different levels). They have an Auction House but who knows what really happens to items you post. They just sort of disappear, never to be heard of again. Play Vindictus, Tera or even WoW for goodness sake and skip this one.

I'll be blunt...the gameplay is the most boring thing imaginable, the graphical settings are non-existent (The only thing that's really there is resolution but with textures so meh, there's no real point in turning it up) The sound is...sub par at best, I'm trying to be really nice with that one but what I really mean is that my ears are bleeding. I cannot find ONE reason why you would spend time downloading this game except maybe if you're a masochist looking for your new method of self-torture or a sadist looking for a way to torture someone. If you want a more in-depth analysis, I really don't wanna bother typing it up but let's get some of the key things out the way... - Sprinting makes NO difference with the speed and the animation is barely different, I thought I wasn't actually sprinting most of the time, turns out I was. - Attacking is like trying to be Steve from Minecraft in real life on a tree...your damage is minimal and it's a very stressful endeavor. The game doesn't even look good enough to make up for this pea shooter like melee damage. (I admit I was the Priest so I probably have the weakest class but this is ridiculous) - Skills...why bother? You're better off spamming the attack button and you wont need healing since you stun everything you hit. - My character has since vanished since I last installed the game (I previously played the game but for some reason, I lost my character forcing me to start over. No problem, I quit within about an hour) Dunno, maybe I deleted the character out of anger, maybe they deleted my character since I haven't been on in ages, I just know I wont be needing the character any more. - Jumping is a pathetic endeavor only for the saddest of people to try, you can do these little dodges in fights which looks okay but 1: defies any logic and 2: Isn't even helpful. It's suppose to make you back up but is for all intent and purposes...useless. In town, you can either jump on the spot (How useful....) or leap a million miles an hour forward with no inbetween so if you're trying to jump on something to take a shortcut (Like I tried in the town you start the game off in) you can't really do it since you jump OVER the platform you're aiming for. I managed to do it but...was not worth the effort, I couldn't even nudge my way onto it mid air (Yet can backwards flip in combat...) It's inconsistent with the mechanics! WHY?! This is only the beginning of issues that plague the game, I could write a whole book of things wrong with this game but this is all you need to know.

Вот вам ещё одно потонувшее судно в море погибших кораблей, под названием "MMORPG".

Still in beta so you can only hope things get better Pros: Graphically, it looks pretty good Controls apeared to be responsive ARPG combo combat makes for for fun than hitting a key to trigger an attack (but we all know you'll just hammer the primary attack most the time) Some voice acted quest text - maybe more to come Cons: (pretty much everything) Didn't feel like a finished game just needing a little polish like you'd expect in an open beta Bad english tanslation, felt like the hired voice actors just read the text direct from google translate I nearly turned the game off in the intro movie, it was just dull Instant teleport between quest hubs, no exporation, its just port to a hub, do the dungeon port to the next one "dungeon" stages are simply waves of monstors attacking, the second wave just spawns on top of you, you can only move on after killing all in each small stage, maybe these will get biger later in the game, maybe not such a bad thing that you can't skip the trash to take on the boss but it didn't work for me limited character customisation, currently only 4 classes, a few hair styles and faces maybe in another year this will be worth playing but its far from it today

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