I got to play the game for about 20 minutes and now I'm writing this quickly before I go to bed.
So far, rather enjoyable! I mean, I'm not even out of the very first area, but still. The game itself is much prettier than I was anticipating. Seriously impressed with that. Despite the very limited character creator, I think my character looks cute enough. My Swordsman feels like she has some punch to her.
Controls are a bit wonky, but they are adjustable. I think I'll keep them as they are for the most part (already had to go in and re-bind the key to sit/recover since my laptop apparently doesn't have an Insert key). If you've ever played Maplestory before they're a bit like that, but a even a bit odder than that. I've never jumped with X before, and I certainly have never opened my UI stuff with the F keys. F1 is stats, F2 is inventory, F3 is skills, etc. Rather counter-intuitive since I want to just click C for stats, I or B for inventory, and K for skills. F4 is Quests I think, which, again, I'd rather just click Q or J.
BUT I get why the menus are in weird places. Basically you control the game with the arrow keys (thank goodness; I thought for a minute there that it was click-to-move and I was deeply regretting spending $10!). Basic attack is Z, and jump is X. Interact is Spacebar. Your skills are bound to, like, ASDFG and QWERTY or something like that, and I already went over the F keys and menus. The only predictable control button is M for Map!
The stats and such remind me of my FlyFF days. It's been a rather long time since I've had to manually put in stat points, and the chat happening in-game is also very old-grindy-MMO-esque what with people selling weapons and talking about the best weapons and such. Hopefully the game will not be even remotely as grindy as FlyFF though.
I look forward to being able to upgrade my Barracks so I can have more characters. I'm saving one slot of my four because I heard you need a slot for a Companion, but I really want one of each class. I have my Swordsman for now, and an Archer, but I can't decide between Cleric or Wizard for the other one. I have reasons to want both!
I haven't run into any other players yet, although maybe the starting area is instanced, I don't know.
I will say that figuring out where to go is a bit wonky. The Map is pretty decent at showing you the general area of quest targets, and you do have an instant-warp thing that brings you straight back to the quest-giver when you're done, I'm seeing an issue with actually finding the quests themselves. Maybe I'm missing something, but there was no obvious exclamation point over anyone's heads (or maybe there was and it was just too subtle for my sleepy eyes?) or any reason to believe the random NPCs around would give me quests. Maybe there was a marker on my map, but it didn't occur to me to open it when I was getting the first round of quests.
One quest in particular, which I think was called "Lost in the Forest" or something like that, confused me immensely for a few moments. It involved starting bonfires from firewood that you found lying around in an area. Well, I found what I thought was the Firewood. I swear it said Firewood, but it was not interactable, and I kept trying to figure out some way to make it work. I tried hitting it, jumping on it, killing enemies next to it, sitting down next to it, etc. Nothing. It wasn't until it occurred to me to go across a nearby bridge that I found the actual firewood I needed. Note that at this time it was past 12 PM, the marker on the map showed the area I was in, and for some reason the quest had removed itself from my on-screen quest list. Turns out that the Firewood I was trying to use was for part 2 of the quest, so it all worked out in the end.
As a huge plus, my character currently has a cute little onion monster on her head, so that's nice.
Okay, I'm too sleepy to keep typing, so I'll play a bit more tomorrow and then I'll surely have more to say!
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