Well maybe EoS is designed for folks with very slow computers. Why so retro a game these days? With the likes of Tera and GW2, why bring out a game that is so lame in many ways? Surprisingly Great Physics Lots of costumes, pets and other cosmetic stuff as well as buffs and gizmos. Not passing up any opportunities to get your money are they. But it only lasts 7 days, as does the first mini pet they give you. See the interesting captain’s cap I’m wearing? It’s a free bee to introduce you to what is available in the Cash Store. Of course you get armor and weapons from quests, and at the first town you can buy better stuff, surprisingly enough. Not sure why they just don’t speed the whole game up. These are speed buffs that actually make the game feel somewhat normal. I thought it was interesting that the ground in the class specific Warlock starting area is covered with crystals. But the buffs only last a few seconds and with the slow movement and slow fighting, these wear off before they do much good. Annoy the folks around you with requests to purify with them. You gather soul shards, purify them into buffs. The whole Soul thing is pretty much a joke. Cool downs are slow and the whole thing feels like you are in molasses. Llama? Bipedal?įighting is Tab to select a mob and then 1, 2, 3 etc. Of course with the tiny chunks of world you are exploring, running too fast would send you into the far side of the valley too fast, I guess. And at level 7 or some such when you get your first mount, it barely moves faster than walking. As you, ahhem, run, in the world, you feel like you are going to fall over at any time. The whole game feels like it’s running in first gear. This is something that we lived with back in 2005 with Decaron / 2Moons, but Everquest, World of Warcraft and onwards had multiple races and non-genderlocked classes. The whole world, while attractive graphically, feels very claustrophobic.Īll the classes are gender-locked. Some of these are only about 200 yards across. Low Level AreaĪs you can see from this map of the low level area, the world is cut up into many little chunks separated by portals. Actually after the starting area, where you might expect this sort of design, you reach the first town at about level 9, and then you venture out into the world. It’s cut up into many small maps with portals between them. So how is EoS so retro and why might this be? Claustrophobic World First Townįirst of all, while the graphics are good, the world is not expansive. Maybe there are some reasons for this as we will look at below. While the graphics are pretty good, it has features that one would have expected five years ago. Recently released in NA by Aeria Games, Echo of Soul is a surprisingly backward MMO.
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