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It's perfectly fine. And yes I know this after playing for three hours.

It's not so bad.

The game is a hot mess but it has some of that old MMO charm from the last century. I'll probably lose patience and blow my top in another hour or two, but if you can find someone to play with, and you manage to slog through the awful and bizarre initial spawn dungeon, the game is worth a try. You'd have to go back 20 years to find anything else with this feel. A few pointers for surviving the first few minutes of the game:

1. Set your camera offset to one side or the other, otherwise your head will block your target and make fighting next to impossible.
2. Don't be ashamed of just running for the exit. There are quite a few of those but the monsters are dumb and you should make it if you just run around a lot.
3. Once you get out, they are all going to keep chasing you, halfway to the first town. Just keep on keepin on, it's just down the road.
4. Make sure you come back later as there's a guy by the side of the road giving away free stuff.
5. The blacksmith is the one with the mining tools.
6. Hang in there.

The reason we don't support P2W games is that they are almost never worth the money. Often this means that at endgame, players are lured into paying hundreds of dollars for boost potions and crafting insurance. For a game that's probably going to cost you around $15 a month, this one might be worth the money.

The question is, are you satisfied to just be one of many living out their lives in a fantasy world, or do you need to be the Chosen One? This is the problem that gave Diablo Immortal its infamy. Even though all of the game content was available to everyone with the exception of a 3v3v3 throwdown that happened every 10 weeks, the prestige and promise of being part of that 24 man fight was enough for thousands of people to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on an upgrade which served no other purpose. It didn't even help you in normal PvP, because matchmaking accounted for those gems.

If you don't fall for that silliness, you have little to fear from playing this game without paying for progress and power. But it's not that simple, because if what you're after is the endgame clan PvP this game offers, chances are you won't be a part of that. It's not yet clear how important that part of the game is going to be or how far they're going to expand it, but there are two safe bets:

1. We're not going to have huge, Asian style money sinks as the basic price of admission.
2. If you want to play at the top, you're going to have to pay the man.
3. Either way, it's going to cost you at least $15 a month.

The game is easily worth $15 a month, but there's a big caveat to this, which is that the entire leveling process, while fun and rewarding in and of itself, is essentially a free trial for what's really a full price subscription game. It's going to last you a few dozen hours - less if you power through it with a guide - and much of that time will be spent in the presence of other players, including some excellent Guild Wars 2 style public events -

BUT - you will have little to no real interaction with those other players. The vast majority of people leveling this game are just trying to get it over with. The question is easy, the danger of dying is zero, there is no downtime of any kind, and fast travel is so plentiful it might as well be a menu. Whoever is fighting alongside you today, you will never see them again. This all makes for a lonely experience that rivals even modern day World of Warcraft. Even if you join a casual guild whose discord is quiet and voice channels are dead, you're likely to find the chat empty.

So if you decide this is the game for you, there's a lot the enjoy, but understand you're going to be enjoying it with an already established set of friends or else utterly alone - and that you had better love the leveling process for its own sake, because when you reach the end of that journey there may be nothing for you but scraps.

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It's okay. Imagine Venture Capitalist without the awful humor and unrewarding progression, and a smidgen of spooky goth atmosphere. It's too early to tell how it's going to pan out, but that's okay because you shouldn't play one of these games for that long anyway. Take that from a guy with 500+ hours in Clicker Heroes.

The important thing is that the progression seems to be set up for older income sources to stay useful, as the game keeps offering multipliers for them. I don't sense I'm going to be stopping most of my progression at a Nice Round Number and dumping everything into two or three things. On the other hand, there is way too much to take in early in the game. I play for ten minutes, leave for a day, come back and there are a dozen buffs to choose from. It's not long before I have all of them, and the game presents a half dozen more, and so on.

We'll see how this pans out, but if you want to play an idler for an hour and not get depressed, here's a decent one.

Too demanding for a idle game, too cramped for an auto shooter, too wonky for an arena game, too boring to be anything else. The music doesn't change and the UI takes up too much space.

I have no idea what Hololive is, but it must be pretty important.

Overrated and boring. Minimal variation from one puzzle to the next, repetitive music, all the dogs make the same noises, and it's awkward to move them around. It's easy to fail at picking them up for some reason, and they snap to the grid when you hover over the board, then move on their own when you take them out. Not being able to rotate them because of obstructions is also an annoyance. In theory it makes perfect sense, but picking them up shifts them unpredictably because of the grid snapping. Just let me overlap the damned dogs. I'm not trying to fool anybody.

Good review anyway because it's not really a bad game, I just can't stand it.

Mobile fluff. To quote another reviewer, "You can't even close a game without Alt+F4, developers expect you to swipe somewhere." Paywall characters, MTX upsell everywhere, gameplay on rails, floaty control. Add to this an expensive battle pass filled almost entirely with consumables. It boggles the mind.

Nobody plays this game unless the developer organizes a game night, and then the number of people who play is either 6 or 8. Now look, I know what it's like to not have many friends, even though I am not a game developer. But if you have a thing and you cannot get more than 7 people to turn out for your thing, the problem might not just be the thing but also how you treat those 7 people. Here are some words you may learn while sitting alone in the custom practice game this developer made instead of a single player mode.

tain
jols
pirl
degs
pagri
pone
odah
aine
abeam
hila
moils
puna
dees
teth
poas
lier
miry
sard
ouens
alap
damme
doab

I'm not cherry picking from a long session. About half of the solutions were words like these. Note that several of them are not English words - which is fine if you're playing a multilingual game, which this is not - and some aren't words at all. If this sounds like fun, perhaps you will enjoy this game. Also, if you enjoy hanging out with the sort of people who think cheating is cute, this game is for you.

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