I want to enjoy this game and I will play it for a while longer, but I'm not even past the tutorial yet and I'm already feeling disappointed about it.
[h1]Gameplay[/h1]
[b][u]Controls[/u][/b]
Movement doesn't feel fluid. It's like pressing up and left doesn't make you go diagonally as expected, when you jump while moving forward, you often stop going forward while mid-air, going up stairs you think you can just walk, but often end up doing a high jump anyway.
I also don't like the keybindings. No problem, I can change them, but I have to first quit the game and set them in the launcher window. This is really annoying if you want to try out which keys work better for you.
[b][u]Tutorial[/u][/b]
Thanks for teaching me the ropes, but could it be easier? At some point you are asked to craft an item, which seems to require 16 items that can be farmed from wolves. However, they don't always drop what you want. I can respect that, but I farmed all the wolves and still didn't have enough to craft the item. Would be nice if they gave you at least half of the items you need. I'm sure people will understand the mechanic, whether they have to get all 16 themselves or only 3 more.
[b][u]Monsters[/u][/b]
I can only kill wolves and frogs in the tutorial. No problem, I just need to get stronger, though unless it's a boss, I don't think a tutorial should have monsters that cannot be killed yet. I'm level 4 with the starter weapon and I still do 0 damage to bears and such, while 6 wolves are no problem at all.
Another thing is the spawn rate. Maybe this changes after the tutorial, but monsters don't respawn unless you, once again, quit and re-open the game. Maybe there's a button for this. If so, they should've told me so before I started farming and end up dying to currently unkillable creatures.
[h1]Graphics[/h1]
[b][u]World[/u][/b]
I'll be nice with this. It's colorful and even though the best graphics may not be as good as in other F2P MMO games, it's not that bad either. Could've been better in my opinion, but it's quite alright.
[b][u]Character[/u][/b]
For a game that's released this year (2017), you'd expect more choices for character customization. Yet I'm limited to a skinny white girl or a muscled brown guy. I only get to pick between 3 hairstyles, some colors and a name. Honestly, they might as well just give us a main hero of the story with a set name, so that it seems like we're following the hero, not roleplay the hero with undesired stylings.
I just feel like you get to choose between two bodies that were taken from the Jersey Shore serie. At least let us choose our skin color as well (unless there's a story that makes men brown and women white, no exceptions)
[h1]Final comments[/h1]
I will keep playing this game, at least until I finished the tutorial. According to the Steam descriptions, this game has a lot more to offer than what I've already done, so there's a lot left to explore. But the tutorial teaches you the basics and allows you to experiment with the core gameplay, and right now, it feels like this game should've existed years ago to be considered good.
Also, after picking up the first weapon, I saw it lying on the same spot again with the text "Hello world". For those that don't know, in the coding language, Hello world is considered the first application you write in any code language. All you have to do, is let your application show the text "Hello world". The fact that I see it makes me believe the game is far from finished and will have many other bugs, glitches and other junk lying around.
For now, I just cannot recommend it to anyone, and from my current experience, I'm glad that I got a free key for this game. There appears to be a free demo available on Steam, so it's recommended to download that first before you actually buy this game. I might change this review after a few more hours of playing, depending on the extra features and IF they keep working on making this game better. But for now, it's simply not recommended.
