La Tale

Bring back the emoticons!!! >n<

Tentative Non-Recommendation; The trend of MMOs fast tracking players to endgame loop completely kills the enjoyment of progression. Server sided movement also makes experience miserable for non-US players when considering endgame dungeons have a fair share of challenging platforming sections. For a grinding game I find this game to be servicable. A zenic experience of running dungeons, travelling around the game's world killing mobs, getting better gear and getting stronger until you're prepared for the harder areas, just typical MMO stuff. As you progress, more systems are introduced, meaning more avenues of character progression, more raid dungeons, basically a lot of stuff to do. Just your typical MMO stuff, right? So what's the problem? The problem lies in the pacing in my opinion. First 200 levels are treated as the early game where your basic equipment set is so powerful that it can sustain you througout the first season of the story. Said story also took hits with how some fights are completely cut out from the older versions of the game (I tried the game before Ascension 2 is a thing, I remembered a bossfight against Shaomee, which is now nonexistent). Basically you reach the endgame phase so quick that you really have to go out of your way to make it a slow, well paced journey, such as trying to complete all the quests in level range order, using only shop equipments, ignoring every single QoLs, and even still you'll one shot everything until you reach post 200 where pacing finally slow down to sensible pace. It's understandable for a decade running game to provide some kind of fast tracking to allow players to reach the endgame activities and start having fun in a timely manner, but to essentially obsolete entire sections of content is just not it (the newcomer events helps you to even speed through the entirety of first Ascension, which I didn't take for the context of this review, but it's just to show how extreme the fast track program is in this game). Other issue being how movement is tied to latency. If you play nowhere near US then the game is as good as unplayable with how unresponsive it is. Missed jumps, missed comboing, even unregistered hits. There is clearly a zenic grinding experience to be enjoyed here, but the game generally flies too fast before you can mesmerize yourself with the game's world and it left a taste so bad but still can be recovered, if not for the technical issues being this bad.

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[h2]彩虹岛是我记忆深处最珍贵的东西之一 [/h2]（再次听到彩虹岛的bgm总会勾起我的回忆） 小学时能和身边的人一起打怪下副本，为了一把狼矛和表哥在电脑面前刷了两三个小时青狼 在艾丽娅斯接任务时看见大佬们穿着死霸服配幻影勋章留下一串炫酷的残影超级羡慕 平原地带挖坑就为了把路人坑进贝希摩斯的肚子 和表哥跟着别人在水族馆挂一整夜蹭经验升级 大学时在台服开了童年心心念念的火枪手，但是很多npc和地图也发生了改动，这里已经变成一个熟悉但陌生的地方，最后也没能坚持玩下来 十年前我循着爱丽丝的足迹启程，追寻石塔中封存的光影，却停驻在半途的风景中。[strike]也许某一天我还会再次踏上旅途 [/strike] 还有一句话！[spoiler]盛大运营你真它喵就是一坨屎[/spoiler]

The game takes a very long time to load in the launcher.

Childhood MMO besides maplestory i genuinely enjoyed, the music and leveling is very fun. -They actually give you a guidebook to navigate the levels, quest areas, dungeon bosses, and give you rewards for following how to learn things in the game... i was able to get 2 permanent outfits with coupons and a free expert hair, expert skin, and expert eyes onto one character, and many pets (including event pets). that is so thoughtful than what la tale used to be. there are also login events to obtain hair coupons -leveling is super easy compared to years ago from what i feel and they give you a whole bunch of consumables with exp gain rate or temporary gear that has exp gain rate for a week, etc -events and active updates are still coming out ! thats pretty impressive for how small the community must be after so many years of existence -new sprite artsyles due to company changes (i assume), threw me off at first and i miss the old art but there are new changes to some classes which i enjoy (for example, bard sfx) this means that the company still makes changes and puts effort into making it more "modern"

'We have Maplestory at home' ... I really wanted to like this game. It's art is charming, it's classes are neat but this game has clearly been neglected to the point I'm surprised It's still online. For one, your only options for resolution stop at 1080p. It's keybinds almost outright copy Maplestory's and are equally awful but easy enough to remap. I appreciate the hotbar updates the new mapping. It is a game from 2006 so I can cut a little slack but... The killer for me is that every single quest and every dialogue interaction needs you to do one interaction of conversation, leave the conversation, then go back to continue the next segment of the conversation step. It kills any pacing this game has, is tedious, unintuitive and does nothing but waste your time. If they have neglected something so minor for this long, there's zero reason to invest in this game now. Hell, even Maplestory just got a UI overhaul recently, did server merges... It's not much better because of scummy cash shop, but at least you'll be playing an active game. Maplestory at this moment has ~6k players on steam alone, this one has under 200. I'm not advocating to start Maplestory, but I am advocating if this is the type of game you're looking for that Maplestory is probably the answer. This could be a good game, but there's zero reason to invest in it and I'm not willing to climb it's new player hill to find out.

本来想给差评的 直到我去体验了一下国服，只能说如果给差评都觉得对不起自己 国服过得是什么日子啊绷不住