This another game that somehow found it's way through the Google ad feed and into my phone. Lineage 2 Revolution by netmarbleNeo and Netmarble Games is so content packed it took a bit longer than usual to get a sense of what this game is. It's like they took every mobile element that has ever been created, added to it, and released it in a giant MMO package for mobile devices. The question is, does it work?
The Game:
I am going to brush over a lot of stuff and just hit what I see as the key mechanics of this game otherwise we would be looking at what could be seen as a rival to War and Peace or any of The Wheel of Time novel.
Lineage 2 at its core is a mobile MMORPG. You will pick a race and class to fight with and be guided through the world through a quest line, which also works as a tutorial. There are daily and weekly challenges that will give you bonus XP and other rewards. A set of dungeons also exists that lets you square off against different scenarios.
There is a lot of stuff to level. Like a lot of cell phone games, your gear comes with a rating and a level. You can level up the weapon and improve the rating by fusing more weapons into it at the cost of the in-game currency. Each weapon can also be slotted with specific stat boosting stones. These stones can be leveled up. The player's moves can be leveled up as well as well as ruins that work as a permanent passive stat boost.
The game has several currencies, two of which you can buy. The price is a little steep on these but there are also deals you can get that can be worth far more if you log in to collect it every day.
You can join a guild as well that give you daily quests to do. Doing these quests will help with the overall level of the guild. Checking in and greeting all of your friends also awards an in-game currency that you can use to trade for items.
Dying in the game isn't a huge penalty but it will ask you for a premium currency to pop back at where you were. This is the gist of what is going on.
Lineage 2 at its core is a mobile MMORPG. You will pick a race and class to fight with and be guided through the world through a quest line, which also works as a tutorial. There are daily and weekly challenges that will give you bonus XP and other rewards. A set of dungeons also exists that lets you square off against different scenarios.
There is a lot of stuff to level. Like a lot of cell phone games, your gear comes with a rating and a level. You can level up the weapon and improve the rating by fusing more weapons into it at the cost of the in-game currency. Each weapon can also be slotted with specific stat boosting stones. These stones can be leveled up. The player's moves can be leveled up as well as well as ruins that work as a permanent passive stat boost.
The game has several currencies, two of which you can buy. The price is a little steep on these but there are also deals you can get that can be worth far more if you log in to collect it every day.
You can join a guild as well that give you daily quests to do. Doing these quests will help with the overall level of the guild. Checking in and greeting all of your friends also awards an in-game currency that you can use to trade for items.
Dying in the game isn't a huge penalty but it will ask you for a premium currency to pop back at where you were. This is the gist of what is going on.
My Thoughts:
Lineage 2 Revolution is a little over a year old and I am not sure if it started packed with content or they just went crazy with it but there is a lot in it. There are screens upon screens of achievement, upgrades, and gear that is a bit overwhelming when you jump in. It's almost too overwhelming until it starts to work with itself.
The two things that first struck me were the auto-questing and the sheer amount of indicators of daily and weekly goals and achievements. In any other mobile game, these are two aspects I would automatically knock. Auto-combat will take you out of the game and too many unlocks take away from actually playing the game. In this game, they somehow came together in a way that works. While you are clicking on a lot of shit, your guy is still questing. This makes it so the game is still moving and you can be taking care of all of that other stuff this game throws at you. I like how this works.
This game is an MMO length game so to say I have any grasp on the story would be a lie. There seems to be one but calling it compelling thus far is a lie. It's easy to click through. No memorable characters. The music is alright as well.
Graphics are good for a mobile device but this comes at the cost of the battery. It is a battery hound and it is not light on the data. Especially since the first download was a gig. I don't have the exact stats but its been at around the same level as Pokemon GO, which I play a bit more than this game. I would recommend wi-fi as much as possible if you have a data limit.
Lineage controls pretty well when you take it out of auto-combat. The auto-questing takes over pretty quick and just seems to be how you play the game. You can do this in PvP fights, boss fights, and just general questing. Not really any reason to take over for yourself.
The in-game currency is a little pricey and the ones with "deals" require a daily dedication to log in to get any real value from them. You get some in-game currency in quests but not a lot. You need it for a lot of things too so it goes pretty quickly.
Despite its short comings, this game has been open quite a bit on my phone lately. I am doing nothing more than babysitting a sprite on it various quests and upgrading gear but it seems to do enough to have kept me interested. With a world full of these cash grab mobile games with infinite items needed to level up infinite thing, this one isn't bad. It doesn't demand you get these things but you start to see those little benefits here and there of grabbing them. Thoughts of "maybe I do want to level that up quicker", "maybe some better gear will help me farm faster", "maybe a little bag space wouldn't hurt" spring up fairly quickly. It's not forcing you but you feel the nudge.
I am not sure I can say this is a must play but it is worth trying out. It's a gear collecting game in the mobile world but not a terrible example of it. I have not found myself overlly gated from progress. There is plenty to keep me interacting and it sits just fine in the background while I play another game or do something else. It's an alright mobile game and what I see as a decent working MMO in the mobile market. The two things that first struck me were the auto-questing and the sheer amount of indicators of daily and weekly goals and achievements. In any other mobile game, these are two aspects I would automatically knock. Auto-combat will take you out of the game and too many unlocks take away from actually playing the game. In this game, they somehow came together in a way that works. While you are clicking on a lot of shit, your guy is still questing. This makes it so the game is still moving and you can be taking care of all of that other stuff this game throws at you. I like how this works.
This game is an MMO length game so to say I have any grasp on the story would be a lie. There seems to be one but calling it compelling thus far is a lie. It's easy to click through. No memorable characters. The music is alright as well.
Graphics are good for a mobile device but this comes at the cost of the battery. It is a battery hound and it is not light on the data. Especially since the first download was a gig. I don't have the exact stats but its been at around the same level as Pokemon GO, which I play a bit more than this game. I would recommend wi-fi as much as possible if you have a data limit.
Lineage controls pretty well when you take it out of auto-combat. The auto-questing takes over pretty quick and just seems to be how you play the game. You can do this in PvP fights, boss fights, and just general questing. Not really any reason to take over for yourself.
The in-game currency is a little pricey and the ones with "deals" require a daily dedication to log in to get any real value from them. You get some in-game currency in quests but not a lot. You need it for a lot of things too so it goes pretty quickly.
Despite its short comings, this game has been open quite a bit on my phone lately. I am doing nothing more than babysitting a sprite on it various quests and upgrading gear but it seems to do enough to have kept me interested. With a world full of these cash grab mobile games with infinite items needed to level up infinite thing, this one isn't bad. It doesn't demand you get these things but you start to see those little benefits here and there of grabbing them. Thoughts of "maybe I do want to level that up quicker", "maybe some better gear will help me farm faster", "maybe a little bag space wouldn't hurt" spring up fairly quickly. It's not forcing you but you feel the nudge.
TL;DR:
Lineage 2: Revolution packs a lot into a mobile MMORPG and then lets you just autorun through all of it with the click of the button. For some reason, I still have found it a bit compelling, which has caused me to log in since I put it on my phone. Decent graphics also come at the cost of battery and data.
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