Seems to be out on everything, trailers showed it to be free to play breath of the wild clone, when i fact it plays more like single player mmo hack and slash, choke full of money transactions which aren't needed inthe early game so far but once all that lovely currency stops rolling in by huge amounts from the exploring, quests and the adventure book (tick list of achievements) i can see problems levelling up new characters.
how the game plays is you have party of 4 characters in combat to switch between, characters have a set weapon and elemental abilities, matching the weak elemental to the enemy does big damage and combining say wind in to fire causing additional effects like exploding the fire into a aoe burnfest, and on tougher enemies you'll need take own shields both physical and elemental. Actions are pretty limited, 1 attack button which you mash for combo, holding it down at any point does a aoe push back attack. Abilities on 2 buttons, 1 is spamable and has alternative attack on holding it down, the other is a super attack powered up by defeating enemies. There is no option to block, but you have a dash like dodge tapping the run button, and characters with ranged weapons get the extra option to aim charged shots (holds the camera over the shoulder).
Outside of combat is lots of things lifted from BotW, cooking from collecting wildplants and meat, climb anything, swim, gild and running all stamina bar dependant, lots of side activities to open hidden chest from follow the blue ghost thing to environmental 'puzzles' by using the right element on lantern to name a few.
About the MT's and grind, everything from the account level, characters, weapons, accessories and by the looks of boss hunts all have exp grinds to them, at least early on where i am the exp scrolls and craftables are dropping plenty but those exp bars are getting huge and also require in game gold which i have plenty of as well but i can see that vanishing if i was to leveling up alot of characters. As far as getting new characters, i was given 4 from the story quest but didn't come across any others as am stuck levelling my account exp called 'adventure level' to level 10 to get the next story content, so there could be more for free?
I did look in the shop, i had plenty of the premium currency earned from the story and claimed from the 'mail' menu to buy a 'deal' pack which 100% gives this character in maid outfit with a claymore and earth based elemental stuff, it also rolled more gacha crap which gave me 5 weapons and 1 other character.
Summary, its F2P, it looks good for what it is, the map is huge and the interactions between the elemental in and out of combat is decent. I expect the grind to get harsh and bore as i continue, but i haven't spent a dime so far and i have plenty of the map to explore and quests to do. There is multiplayer co-op but it's unlocked after adventure level 15 or something like it, so no idea what the net code is like.
how the game plays is you have party of 4 characters in combat to switch between, characters have a set weapon and elemental abilities, matching the weak elemental to the enemy does big damage and combining say wind in to fire causing additional effects like exploding the fire into a aoe burnfest, and on tougher enemies you'll need take own shields both physical and elemental. Actions are pretty limited, 1 attack button which you mash for combo, holding it down at any point does a aoe push back attack. Abilities on 2 buttons, 1 is spamable and has alternative attack on holding it down, the other is a super attack powered up by defeating enemies. There is no option to block, but you have a dash like dodge tapping the run button, and characters with ranged weapons get the extra option to aim charged shots (holds the camera over the shoulder).
Outside of combat is lots of things lifted from BotW, cooking from collecting wildplants and meat, climb anything, swim, gild and running all stamina bar dependant, lots of side activities to open hidden chest from follow the blue ghost thing to environmental 'puzzles' by using the right element on lantern to name a few.
About the MT's and grind, everything from the account level, characters, weapons, accessories and by the looks of boss hunts all have exp grinds to them, at least early on where i am the exp scrolls and craftables are dropping plenty but those exp bars are getting huge and also require in game gold which i have plenty of as well but i can see that vanishing if i was to leveling up alot of characters. As far as getting new characters, i was given 4 from the story quest but didn't come across any others as am stuck levelling my account exp called 'adventure level' to level 10 to get the next story content, so there could be more for free?
I did look in the shop, i had plenty of the premium currency earned from the story and claimed from the 'mail' menu to buy a 'deal' pack which 100% gives this character in maid outfit with a claymore and earth based elemental stuff, it also rolled more gacha crap which gave me 5 weapons and 1 other character.
Summary, its F2P, it looks good for what it is, the map is huge and the interactions between the elemental in and out of combat is decent. I expect the grind to get harsh and bore as i continue, but i haven't spent a dime so far and i have plenty of the map to explore and quests to do. There is multiplayer co-op but it's unlocked after adventure level 15 or something like it, so no idea what the net code is like.
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