ASTRAL TALE-星界神話

“Leaving aside that it is an old remastered game with graphics from the year 2000, just by the simple fact that it opens its own launcher and that it takes more than 15 minutes!”

“It's the same game, only with downgraded graphics and everyone turned into a child.”

“Overall, the anime 3D graphics were good, though it was a downgrade and smaller than Aura Kingdom, which showed the world literally looking more alive and breathable than this game.”

“Enjoying overpowered, stupidly cheap one-shot kill mechanics that are impossible to dodge because of the clunky movement system they used.”

“The overall gameplay loop is repetitive, where you basically just run the same dungeons in party and solo mode as much as you can stomach for a small chance at getting something actually worthwhile, and complete the daily quests associated with each zone (if they are even added into the game; there have been at least two zones since launch that didn’t have their daily quests available because the devs just didn’t enable them).”

“I was really excited and looking forward to a game like this, had a very big nostalgia feeling from games like Florensia, Aura Kingdom, etc., but the reality here is, you just spam auto quests. It teleports you, takes quests, teleports, takes auto items, teleports, finishes quests, and this goes on for a long while. I spent about 1.5 hours in there leveling till around 30+ in hope it would stop and actual gameplay like farming, killing mobs, and dungeons with other players would begin, but no it won't. I've seen mobile games perform better than this; please don't give it a try!”

“You can get around 250g to 300g per day from the dungeons; sadly, you're going to have to spend from 6 to 10 hours grinding. The prices for gear etc. you need are so high, it's ridiculous.”

“Because the game is already completed (level 130), all 'future' content is available at the levels they're unlocked at (holy crystal, meow meow escort, etc.), but all content is released slowly with each level cap being 5 levels per month. You end up grinding for weeks for 1 level and repeat the cycle every update, leading most players to burn out as all there is to do is daily dungeon runs.”

“I was really excited and looking forward to a game like this, had a very big nostalgia feeling from games like Florensia, Aura Kingdom, etc. But the reality here is, you just spam auto quests. It teleports you, takes quests, teleports to get auto items, teleports to finish quests, and this goes on for a long while. I spent about 1.5 hours leveling until around 30+, hoping it would stop and actual gameplay like farming, killing mobs, and dungeons with other players would begin, but no, it won't. I've seen mobile games perform better than this; please don't give it a try!”

“What I can say about this game is just another cash grab.”

“Until then this can only be classified as a blatant cash grab with no intention of bringing it up to par with literally the same version of the game in other regions.”

“This is a fast cash grab to milk whatever is left from this game.”

“Act now and we'll throw in effects that drop frames so hard that the game literally freezes for a few seconds and skips its way back to normal unless you get floored by a random attack from the boss that they prepare to use during the lag and that you don't see until it's too late.”

“The publishers and the devs are so incompetent; they are the worst. Their launcher is the worst launcher in MMO history. It's so slow and buggy. In order to play the game, you have to disconnect your Wi-Fi and open the game, then connect back to your Wi-Fi, all of this in order to be able to click on the start button. When you enter the game, you have to pray that it is in English because it's in Chinese, and even if you change it in settings and relog, it doesn't work for many people.”

“This game is very bad; it's an even worse shell of its former self. It's heavily pay-to-win, there is no endgame content, and I'm not sure why they even bothered to re-launch this game in this state when nothing has changed. It's still as buggy as its predecessor, maybe even more so. They did the bare minimum to re-launch this game; it still uses the same crappy launcher, and I think it's actually worse somehow.”

“The only thing that bothered me so far was the music; it's obnoxious.”

“The music sounds like Twin Saga; the graphics look like Twin Saga as well.”

“I'll hold out a little longer in hopes there's a workaround for all the performance issues and visual lag in the works, but I'm not expecting much in that regard anytime soon.”

“To be honest, it's optimized better than Aura Kingdom, maybe because the map is three times smaller than Aura.”

“Badly optimized even on high-end systems.”