Lineage2M

Visuals are great, gameplay is boring. You can essentially set your phone down and it just plays itself, combat system is auto attack + auto skill and when you do take control it isn’t particularly fun or skill based. Game commits the usual mobile sins, tons of currencies constant pop ups for real money shop items and overly grindy. If you are looking for something with any semblance of depth this is not it, the game is not even a good reimagining of the original lineage 2 which has a good number of sand box elements in it’s day. Lineage w is another game In development by NC and currently available in other regions, that title is a remake of the first game in the series. On the whole I am finding that one allot more fun, it’s actually a 1:1 remake of the game it’s trying to be. If you want something to play right now on mobile in the lineage universe I would say go ahead and try revolution, it’s grindy and has auto play but I think it has been better thought out for a mobile lineage game.

This is going to be long. TL;DR- avoid this game like the plague. First off, I can’t remember that last time I played an mmo with ZERO customization. That earned this game a 1 star and I almost deleted it right then and there, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. You’re only real customization option it’s to pick different races, which are also gender-locked. After finally choosing a race for the class I was, let’s say, content with I loaded up and started playing. After finally getting control of my character I realized, in the process of switching races to see what look I liked, it doesn’t remember which class you picked and defaults to the first one. Easy fix, or so I thought. I wanted the name I had so I went about deleting my character since I had no playtime anyway and was hit with quite possibly the dumbest sentence ever read on an mmo character deletion screen. I’m going to paraphrase because I don’t remember the exact words and I’m not about to download this game again just to see what it said. It said “You can not delete characters under level 60.” What?! I’ve been playing mmos for more than 10 years and I’ve never not been able to delete a character whenever I wanted. This notion completely deleted what will I had left to play this game and in turn decided to delete the game itself off my phone. There are much better mobile mmos out there than this. Save yourself some headache and just look for those instead.

Ok, so the graphics are amazing. Storyline ok. Animations, check. But who did you hire to do that user interface? It’s sooooo bad. Where’s the character and gear preview? Where’s the graphics for the gear? You have a rectangle with some weird oblong shaped-box that people are somehow supposed to decode in their heads and then imagine what it might be. On top of that, there’s only these tiny little shabby-looking icons for gear. It didn’t give me even the slightest attraction to upgrade, IF I even how I’m supposed to do that? The instructions aren’t there. Burying complex structures into a lousy beta-UI is not polished or finished. Face it, the UI is BETA. It looks like you ran out of money to finish the game and sold the release as-is. But sorry, no one is going to throw money at 1st generation mmorpg boxes whose functionality hurts my head to figure out. I’m telling you this for your own good because it could be a winner, you just pushed it out during development and that’s never a good idea. You need an overhaul of the UI and a concise plan to consolidate menus so that character progression and gear is simplified, flows easily and looks good. Had to give it only 2 stars because without a good UI, it’s a video, not a video game.