Tales of Spark: Probation

At this stage I ca,'t recommend this game. There is potential and I like the old-school feeling bringing me back to the old Asian MMORPG, but the quality isn't even matching the good old ones yet. To start with the game should detect the language on start, that's just silly. The mini map reveals with a radius lower than what you can see on screen and doesn't make any distinction between the limit of a place you can walk to and the border of what you've discovered. Then quests tell you to go here or there but there isn't any map where you can find the direction of that unless you're close enough that you almost don't need a map. Many other areas could get a bit of extra work to make this a great game and I hope they do, but for now, nope.

The intro is kind of lacklustre (consisting of walls of text and a dull linear snow level) but once you get past that and onto the desert area the game really opens up and feels more engaging. Despite it saying in the description controllers are not compatible, I found mine worked OK, but there are some problems with attacking direction and interacting with items such as chests. I feel like it would be a real plus for this game if it become fully controller compatible and would reach a bigger audience. The story is amusing and in-depth, the dungeons are fun and challenging and If you like older style action RPG's I think you're going to have some fun this one!

喜欢他的题材和装备和数值系统

i think there are too much cutsccenes and it takes alot of time to skip them , esspcially in thebegining, i am sucker for good lore, but i think they are too much that being said a wu-shea inspired arpg is highly intersting and original i wish there be more diffrante classes.. is it that spiritual succsesoor to blade and sword?

"Tales of Spark: Probation" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Tales of Spark". Tales of Spark is an abandoned Early Access Diablo ripoff, a basic Chinese top down/iso view ARPG where you mash icons that look like they were asset flipped from World of Warcraft to beat up asset flip looking baddies... it was a huge flop on Steam Direct so the developers abandoned it 20 months ago. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Tales of Spark, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Tales of Spark: Probation" too. There's a correct process to publish game demos and advertisements like this on Steam. You can see it in [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos]Valve's Steamworks Documentation for Demos[/url] but either the "developer" didn't know about that (something they absolutely should before they even touch Steam Direct), or they deliberately and willfully bypassed this process to mislead gamers, for profit. Either is not okay. The goal here is to get you to spend [b]$13 USD[/b] on [i]Tales of Spark[/i]. I do not recommend you get suckered or reward these kinds of shady, deliberately misleading marketing practices. They're harmful to everyone. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an innocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. You can always judge a game by how popular it is with the general public. Steam has over 130 million unique gamers, and over 40 million unique logons every day from dedicated PC gamers. But this only ever had a peak player count of a dozen or so people... that's very poor public reception. Gamers rejected this, most likely due to the reasons I supply in this review. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts. Finally, I write these reviews to try help people navigate the thousands of games on Steam so they don't waste time on low quality products. There's over 140,000 games on Steam... Steam Direct is allowing an influx of around 40-50 new games [i]every day![/i]. If you think I'm wrong about this one, go ahead and add it to your library, download it, install it, play it and see for yourself. Maybe you'll come to agree with me after wasting your time. Either way, consider writing your own reviews too. I'm just glad if my review helps give gamers enough info to make a better informed choice.

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