These sorts of world-ending threats that only the player can stop are great story hooks for single-player games. The cinematic was not bad, I was actually enjoying the art style until the “You are the chosen one” speech ruined the moment. I was hyped for an interesting cinematic to find out more about the world and my character. I called my steampunk-styled gunslinger Damin and started the game. So I created a bad-ass-looking Orc Gunner, and I really liked the customizations and features of the character creation. The Ein does look cute, but it’s so out of place among the other races in the game.Īs much as I wanted to embrace the silliness and play as an Ein, I still wanted to take the game seriously and I was hoping I would enjoy it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Eins were or became a premium race only playable by paying more. Even if there’s a good enough reason lore-wise for them to be in the game, at this point this seemed like the same approach of other eastern MMOs: anything that looks cute, or funny, is a great source of microtransactions. All other races look epic and fantasy-themed, but a furry little sheep just doesn’t fit. I still don’t know the lore of the world, but I feel like these are in the game just because they look “cute”. A non-immersive world with out-of-place looking creatures and outfits.Įins are small bipedal sheep-like creatures, with humanoid hands and feet. The first three were typical fantasy races, but Ein was the first sign that Eylon is what I was afraid it would be. Human, Elf, Orc, and something called Ein. There are also four races to choose from.
They fall into the classic holy trinity of tank, healer, and damage dealer, and they all have amazing animations and outfits in the character creation preview. Slayer, Warlord, Elementalist, Mystic, Assassin, and the Gunner. After that, we head into the character creation menu, and our journey begins.
It’s an interesting choice to give the players, and I haven’t seen many games do this before. The game offers five different graphic styles, that kinda look like the color filters on Instagram or photo editing applications and slightly change the overall color tone of the game. We get thrown into the middle of a conflict in the beginning, and the conversations don’t make what is happening any clearer.Īfter starting the game, I saw an interesting choice. It doesn’t have the same feeling of immersion as other successful MMOs, it doesn’t have the same feeling of community and belonging, and it makes some of the most common mistakes in modern MMOs. Even if you are an old MMO fan who is looking for a new game to play, you might have a couple of fun hours in Elyon, but it’s not the game to spend hundreds of hours in. If you like the atmosphere, the over-the-top anime style, the fast-paced action, and sometimes ridiculously immersion-breaking cosmetics of Tera, then you will love Elyon. Elyon seems to be a great game for the fans of the eastern MMOs, but will it be good enough to bring in new players to the genre, or capture the audience of other popular MMOs? The fans who’ve been asking for a new exciting game for years? As one of those people, and after playing tens of hours in the second closed beta testing before launch, unfortunately, I have to say no.
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