Collecting and deciding which Astels to use is one of the better aspects of the game. While the bulk of the Astels are in designed in good taste (at least moreso than TERA at launch in South Korea), they still err a bit too far into the realm of “seemingly sexualized” for the personal tastes of many. The appearances of the various Astels generally fall into “child-like females” or animals with humanoid traits. You can purchase items in the cash shop that allow you to utilize more Astels simultaneously and/or utilize them for a longer duration. These systems are fairly standard of so-called Korean MMORPGs - especially the older ones.Īstels are one of the major selling points of the game and when they aren’t stuck on an object or bugged, can help add a tactical component to combat.
Weapon, armor, and item upgrading consists of a few systems including runes, item enhancement via components found in game, and a rune / jewel fusion system that lets you fuse 5 runes, jewels or star jewels to create a new rune, jewel or star jewel. It’s your basic holy trinity class system with a tab-target with action combat elements combat system. You’ll quickly fill your hotbar with a variety of attacks with a variety of cooldowns, with certain attacks performed in succession creating a combo. We tried a warrior and an archer, finding the warrior to be a better option for our play styles and the archer to be quite weak, as if I was hitting whiffle balls at the creatures instead of magic-infused arrows. If you want to create a very specific-looking character, you’ll likely be disappointed.Ĭlasses include your standards: a warrior, archer, scholar (healer), assassin (rogue), and mage. It’s serviceable and simple, so for someone just wanting to create a decent looking character - it’s not terribly difficult or time-consuming to do so. At least the classes aren’t gender-locked anymore (they were in closed beta). A battle duck and a doll sitting on a gear are two of the earliest you can acquire through standard questing.Ĭharacter customization includes lots of sliders and choices yet is surprisingly limited in what you can create. The voice acting only takes a small snippet of the text and omits or changes a lot of wording, creating a few instances of the written and vocal forms of text seemingly having different meaning.Īstel collection is one of the main selling points for this game. The voice acting in general varies significantly, with the bulk of it being subpar at best and a significant portion of it failing to capture the intended meaning of the written text. The Astels often talk to you or amongst themselves during your adventures, spouting cringe-worthy dialogue. When the music is playing, sound effects often drown it out. The sound effects are fairly standard and repetitive. The soundtrack is generally well-composed and thematic, with very few instances of dissonance between the music and the environment. If you love taking screenshots, you’ll have plenty of locations worthy of stopping to take a photo during your travels. Assets appear to have been purposefully placed even if they are repeated frequently. The location and order of the quests is a bit odd, given I had already completed some of the tasks required by the tutorial by the time I found the quest-granting NPC in the world. Learning the basics consists of a guide to follow (must be completed in order) and quests that force you to do a task successfully to learn the various combat and non-combat systems in game. The cut scenes are fairly standard modern MMORPG cutscenes, with the actual graphical quality being on the good side of acceptable and the voice acting mostly being of relatively low quality. The new player experience is fairly average but good enough for the typical MMORPG player. There are numerous lore items to discover for those who want to invest more time into learning about the world and story. It’s a serviceable-at-best story that most will likely skip. It’s a classic good versus evil tale with a few twists along the way, but nothing that stands out as being exceptionally well-written. The story of Astellia Online revolves around a journey to save your sister from an evil demon army while advancing your Astellian powers in the process. Even on low settings, the environments are beautiful and well-constructed.
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