![]() ![]() Graphically the game is hit and miss, definitely showing its age in places with a lot of jagged edges, even on the opening title sequence the lettering was pixelated, a couple of character textures were a little rough, but the actually environments were stunning and some of the most picturesque we’ve ever seen in an MMORPG. It was extremely well done, very interesting, but absolutely RUINED by our character for every serious moment that conjured excitement and suspense, it was killed by our eight foot tall pink haired freak ambling into shot with his dumb grin (not helping that we’d stripped down to our boxers), from the very moment he was dragged out of the water and filled up nearly the entire boat, we just laughed constantly. Without giving away too many spoilers bad stuff goes down, which we obviously expected, what we didn’t expect was a near five minute long fully voiced cinematic showing these events unfold that was literally like watching a movie. One of the huge draws of the game were the cinematics, starting out with an opening cut scene of the players character being dragged out of the sea, you’re then transported to the tutorial zone to learn the basic controls and combat and the build-up of how you came to find yourself floating face down. ![]() ![]() With our freaky looking unlikely hero made we went with the Assassin class, because the lols to be had killing someone from the shadows with this character was too good to pass up on. #BLADE AND SOUL ONLINE REVIEW PLUS#The actual character creation is so good and allowed us to create a character so ridiculous looking that it was honestly the most we’ve laughed during character creation ever not sure whether that’s a huge plus for the game in general, but for us it was fantastic. The game was released in Korea in 2012 and is now seeing its western launch.Ĭreating your first character is a standard affair, seven different classes divided between four different races the races are relatively human for the most part, the Jin being the most classically human, the Yun being a purely female race in touch with nature, the Gon are giant men and women and the Lyn are small statured with rodent like features. Blade & Soul from NCSOFT was released this week, so we jumped in to check it out, having seen the game at the last year’s Gamescom and having had a chance to check it out in the closed beta weekends.įor those unfamiliar with the game it is another in a long line of Wuxia/Qinggong style “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” martial arts MMORPG, with our character being one of the last of a handful of students to be taught the a legendary art-form (us and the thousands of other players that is). ![]()
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