Vindictus (Or Mabinogi Heroes) is a multiplayer hack and slash RPG that has elements of character action games, and souls likes in it's combat system, with physics based puzzles, levels and combat responses from enemies, and physics based feedback to armor and weapon degradation on the player side.
On the story side of things it mostly played out as a visual novel with a digital oil paint art style and took heavy inspiration from Irish lore.
It was a fun enough game to play as a dungeon crawler with friends, but unfortunately it suffers from a stupid thing that it seems a lot of MMOs and online RPGs do, and that was the fact that the early chapters got nerfed hard, and the story up to season 3-4 is now way too easy and kinda boring.
It's still got a fun combat system and is worth investing some time into with a couple of pals, especially if you like other character action games, or dungeon crawlers like diablo. But the first couple chapters with be stupid easy, with a sharp difficulty curve on chapter 3. Honestly I don't know why games like this nerf their early story stuff, if you want to get players through it so they can join the vets, just make a referral program to allow them to make a higher level starting character if they have a friend at that level for crying out loud.
I also believe this game was developed on the Source engine, which may be the cause of a few connectivity bugs, but its a good engine and I wish more games used it.
On the story side of things it mostly played out as a visual novel with a digital oil paint art style and took heavy inspiration from Irish lore.
It was a fun enough game to play as a dungeon crawler with friends, but unfortunately it suffers from a stupid thing that it seems a lot of MMOs and online RPGs do, and that was the fact that the early chapters got nerfed hard, and the story up to season 3-4 is now way too easy and kinda boring.
It's still got a fun combat system and is worth investing some time into with a couple of pals, especially if you like other character action games, or dungeon crawlers like diablo. But the first couple chapters with be stupid easy, with a sharp difficulty curve on chapter 3. Honestly I don't know why games like this nerf their early story stuff, if you want to get players through it so they can join the vets, just make a referral program to allow them to make a higher level starting character if they have a friend at that level for crying out loud.
I also believe this game was developed on the Source engine, which may be the cause of a few connectivity bugs, but its a good engine and I wish more games used it.