Aura Kingdom 2

I launched this game, and immediately I regret even doing that. The game is a phone game first and foremost, and that's where the issues start. Graphics settings only for resolution, render API and fullscreen. Red flag. "Tap to start" present multiple times. Massive UI. Clicking makes a huge theoretically finger-sized circle. This would be bad even on a phone. Holding click doesn't do anything either, the circle vanishes after a bit. Let's log in... Only social media accounts (Google, facebook, etc.), no accounts of their own. Luckily there's "guest", I choose that. Pick a class. Only 4 classes. Choosing one forces you into a video, but at least it can be skipped. However, choosing that same class again if you're uncertain will have the video play again! The character creation screen was a disaster. Each category (Hairstyle, hair color, face, eye color, skin tone) has exactly 5 choices, only 5, exactly 5 for each category, and the numbers 1 to 5 are always there on the side. You can't see the actual color for each choice, you have to click it first. So you are literally restricted to only 5 colors, except that their preset hair colors are insane like green or purple, so it's not a choice for consistency or something. Not only that, but each hairstyle has ITS OWN SET OF 5 COLORS. This is already a headache. I believe the randomize button also shuffles the hairstyles in the 1...5 choices themselves but I'm not even sure anymore. I decide to mash some keys. Arrows, space, enter, nothing happens. No movement on the 1..5. Not even escape triggers anything. The UI is still oversized, mind you. Next, some accessory. For it you get "size" (pretty self-explanatory), """Angles""" (3 sliders for what are actually X, Y and Z euler rotation of the thing respectively, full 360 degree range), "Location" (but not quite; your accessory is automatically projected onto the face a bit, kinda, and it's 2D). You can't flip your accessory (in the case of the one-eye butterfly). The "angles" are insane, you can make the glasses clip into the character. The location is extremely sensitive, and even the gentlest tap will move the thing a lot. It's also quite easy to get your thing off-center. There is no reset button, you have to pick a different accessory and pick the one you want again to reset ALL values. The default glasses are also poorly scaled for your character, making them look like a fish. You'll WANT to increase their size, but even that might prove... finnicky... As the character is literally JUMPING as you position their accessory! Time to name the characer. I click the name field. A default Win32 dialog box pops up, all white and everything (unlike the dark game's background), with a blank space in the middle, and asking for my name. For some reason even this dialog box is oversized with massive empty space around its text field. I'm already too annoyed, I skip all the cutscenes. Standard WASD movement, cool. The movement is super basic but at least basic WASD movement feels good. Standard phone camera movement, uncool - you have to click and hold click to rotate the camera. There's enemies, time to fight? There's a big fight button, you click it and your character automatically paths to the nearest enemy and attacks them. There's no attacking with buttons or keys or whatever from what I could tell. I gave up. It's literally worse than the first game in every single way except character models being slightly more HD. And that first game wasn't a very high bar.