This all changes once you reach the teenage levels. In fact, you are not even half an hour in and the player is already nearing level 10, something that almost every other game makes you work a lot harder for. When starting out the game, you’re quickly taking out enemies left and right with barely any noticeable health lost. Due to the nature of the class I chose, the powerhouse Berserker, I drank so many HP potions I may as well have hooked myself up to a blood transfusion machine and filled it with the stuff.Īnother problem happens to show up. Keeping your front towards the enemy is a must, as you receive extra damage from back attacks which can result in your health quickly dropping. There is a slider to tone it down, but one wonders if the designers had seen too many shaky cam movies and thought they’d incorporate it into the game.Īside from that, there was much to enjoy in the combat, a real-time affair with an emphasis on positioning, maneuverability, and chains of combination attacks. This can be seen in the sweeping panorama shot shown in the opening cutscene of the game where you see some horrendous pop-in of objects, especially trees, and slow-down in certain parts.Īs I got my first taste of combat in the game, I noticed that the game loves shaking the camera from every strike, even down to simply jumping. Speaking of which, while the visuals of the game are pretty nice, the actual engine seems to have trouble keeping up with it. If I can give a new player a piece of advice, it would be to find this option in the settings and turn it on immediately. This tells you that they know how overwhelming their interface is and that they’re not able to streamline things effectively.
The only saving grace is the option to “Simplify UI”, which only gives you important information as well as options to disable things such as the Black Spirit’s notifications. Not even Navi from Ocarina of Time annoyed me as much as this. Not only does it pop up on your screen whenever it wants to talk to you, but a message flashes every second telling you that it wants to speak with you until you talk to it and get it to stop. For one thing, you can’t get the Black Spirit to shut up. This is one in a string of problems with this game.
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The creature possesses your body and you begin the arduous process of going through a long tutorial, going over everything from how to move, how to fight, and ultimately how to progress in the game. Immediately after you’re given a brief back story, a smoky black creature named the “Black Spirit” with glowing red eyes speaking a language that only Midna from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess could interpret pops into view and suggests helping each other out.Īfter (another) brief explanation as to why he chose you, the camera pans down to show you lying on the ground unconscious for some unknown reason. We’ll get back to the voice acting later. Once you get into the game, you’re given a narration of the goings-on in the world by, oddly enough, Tay Zonday of “Chocolate Rain” fame. By being able to create an asymmetrical face, stretching and contracting limbs, and even scale how well-defined your muscles and your wrinkles are, it’s easy to see why everyone is talking about it. The detail in which you can modify aspects of your physical appearance overshadows almost every other game. After choosing one of eight classes (with more supposedly to be added later), you’re thrown into the most acclaimed feature in Black Desert Online, the character customization.
The game starts with allowing you to create your own personalized hero. Impressive character creation options mean that you too can make your very own freak show!
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