Earlier this week, Netmarble launched the free-to-play motion RPG Seven Knights Re:BIRTH, and I made a decision to present it a attempt. On the floor, it seems to be like the kind of sport I regularly play – anime RPG adventures with collectible characters. No matter your opinion on the gacha portion of gacha video games could also be, fairly just a few of those who have come out over the previous few years are fairly good in areas like gameplay, storytelling, fashion, and even music. So, I’m all the time excited to take a look at the subsequent journey.
That mentioned, Seven Knights: Re:BIRTH wasn’t what I anticipated. It’s not simply that anyone ingredient bothered me, however extra that every one the weather mixed made me marvel who precisely this sport is for or, reasonably, who would discover it satisfying to play.
As the sport is made for cell gadgets as nicely, I wasn’t fully put out by the methods that clearly catered to that. Though, there are clearly loads of gacha video games made for each cell and PC that don’t really feel fairly as mobile-centric on the subject of navigating the sport. Nonetheless, it’s one thing that alone will not be sufficient to make me stroll away from a sport. I’m prepared to place up with one ingredient I’m not keen on if different facets of the sport make up for it. However this specific sport didn’t try this for me.
Earlier than I am going on, I’ll admit that I didn’t spend hours and hours within the sport. So, if somebody comes alongside and tells me I’ve missed the half the place it will get higher… Nicely, actually, I’ve far too many choices on the subject of video games to spend time taking part in one thing and simply hope that it’ll lastly work for me.
So, what’s the difficulty, except for the clearly cell interface? Nicely, just a few issues. A few of them possible prolong from that one subject, like the sport’s auto options. Don’t get me unsuitable. I’m not towards auto options. I simply really feel like there’s a time and a spot for them. I need to not less than really feel like I’m taking part in the sport in spite of everything. For example, Honkai: Star Rail affords an auto-combat possibility. You should utilize it when preventing trash mobs on the earth or in content material just like the Simulated Universe or Calyxes. Mainly, the content material you’d be doing to farm for much-needed character supplies.
Boss fights are off the desk. You’re going to spend a while on these, and also you’re going to benefit from the trauma. And also you definitely can’t idle your means by means of the entire sport with the system simply transferring you thru fights and story bits on the map. You’ll be able to in Seven Knights Re:BIRTH. You don’t should do it, however all of the choices are there to show it right into a quick-moving sport that you just don’t actually have to the touch aside from to use higher gear and keep your characters and groups.
I’m nicely conscious that video games like this exist, and other people play them. And, if I’d loved what was taking place with the story, I might need ignored these two components. However it simply wasn’t actually sufficient to drag me in. For one factor, the “participant character” isn’t somebody you possibly can see. I understand they supposed it to really feel just like the participant is definitely concerned in what’s taking place. However it made me really feel much less like I used to be part of the world and extra of an observer, regardless of having dialogue choices.
For an additional, whereas the characters I used to be interacting with did communicate their dialogue, what they mentioned was only a small phase of the dialogue that really appeared on the display screen. That’s one thing that all the time bothers me. It was made worse once I turned on all of the autoplay options simply to see how they labored collectively. The outcome was that I needed to pace up my studying to verify I used to be finished earlier than the textual content flew by – an issue that I don’t come throughout in different video games I play as a result of the dialog that’s voiced is absolutely voiced.
As for the story, I’m afraid I didn’t get too far, as a result of the supply wasn’t for me. The pacing didn’t actually work for me, with just a few traces of dialogue earlier than heading into the subsequent spherical of fight. I suppose, in case you’re taking part in the sport briefly stints on the bus, in-between lessons, that form of factor, it might be just right for you. Should you’re extra like me and searching for partaking tales that maintain you busy for hours at a time, this in all probability isn’t going to do it.
That is likely to be a very good factor, although. Maintaining with the video games I do play is already fairly time-consuming.
