Mabinogi is a great MMO for gamers who aren't looking to grind levels or raid 20 man dungeons for epic loots, but rather enjoy a colorful, online world that gives the player a sense of freedom when it comes to developing their character.
Amazing game. Is actually free to **** only thing that actually costs money are cosmetics that you can buy from players with in game cash. Days and days of mainline content. But that's not why I recommend mab.i recommend mab because you can do whatever you want to make the best cake ever? Do it! Want to have your name on the coolest armor, which also means it has better state overall? Do it! Want to get so op you can solo a dragon raid? Do it! On top of this you have events that give you free things that would normally be cash shop **** the devs are constantly giving quality of life improvements.i wish every game dev would look to mab as a model of how to make a game for players.
This is a true spiritual sequel to 《UO》. and a very wonderful adaptation of Celtic mythology.
In the era when World of Warcraft was rampant, it pioneered and made its own unique innovation!
This game is one that is you do not like anime your not going to like the look of the game. Some do not know how to even play the game. That's ok since other players always help them. The players on this game are a lot nicer than most of the Free MMOs that you will find online. Yes yo can spend money on in-game Items but that's what makes it free. Without some way to make money you would all have to pay to play the game. Also if you still do not want to play you could use the free offer system to earn free NX points and get what you want.
I recently gave this game another try and I've got to say that it's okay.
It's aged. It looks and it feels that way. But it's still fun -like always- with friends.
PvP is still broken and it goes this way: Do you have a ranged weapon? Then you're sure to win! To put an example of this, my newborn character was able to slap the **** out of my veteran friend mainly because I had range and that the gunslinger had skills to re-take its distance. So I won, even against his fancy shmancy transformations.
The levels are meaningless though. What it really matters is how high you upgrade your skills - Which you have to level up by use, then spending some Ability points to up them. And repeat.
The game itself aknowledges the long-tedious grinding process of leveing up to a proper 1000 out of... 7000? levels so beginners have big big bonus in experience.
Good thing is your character not being forever-bound to a class (or talent). It gives you that 'freedom'. But after you check all the skills you'll see why though. Some are so lackluster that binding a character only to them would be boring, like the Lancer, which only has 3-4 skills of its own aside from the basic set of skills.
The world is big, but dead. There's no real reason to explore the thing aside from cities and dungeons. This is because there's this 'fast-travel-portals'. Self explainatory.
I dont think I ever got to read the scaling of skills in-game. For that I had to check the wiki and discover that I was building wrong. This may be salt from me, but I usually like to know how things work in-game and then use the internet as a support-guide. Because of this my first character (a gunslinger) ended up doing tickles for damage and over-powered by the rest of the rest of my party. Then I was told the gunslinger was "And end-game character" And while yes, I won against my friend this was because of its 'Ultimate ability' which is like a +X damage to your basic attacks. But it has a duration of 15 seconds tops with a 400 seconds CD.
There's plenty of events for you to have fun though! And those usually give good cosmetics and different kinds of weapons.
Personal notes:
Im a big big fan of nice stories and Mabinogi's story is just meh. It doesnt help that the 'in-game cinematics' are as expressive as a potato. So you'll have your happy-looking character smiling at some giant boss so... Yes. Kind of immersion breaking. That and that I couldn't really get to 'feel' a character. I ended up just shrugging and clicking to skip the dialogs all together. And the "Oh its beacuse its old" is bull****. There's a 'movie-mode' in which you can make your own shorts with the in-game assets. If the community can do it so the devs. - But this is me asking for a better delivery in the story.
There were several times in which our party would have to sweep a city-sized area to find the last spawn of enemies so we could get to the bossfight. Frustrating as the game does not tell, show nor hint the location. And in these city-sized map-dungeon-quests you're not allowed to use flying pets. Which are perfect to do the thing. So you're forced to do it by foot or ground-mounts.
Remember how I said the world was massive but dead? Well the most fun I had with the game was going merchant with a friend. We bought some random goods from NPC merchants and we were forced to go walking to the cities to sell them. Why was it so fun? For one he's the kind of person who you want if you want to laugh to the simplest of things, second we got to really appreciate the world and to be careful in which areas we went. Third we had a GOAL, an actual goal, along side with dangers of NPC bandits that would grow stronger after every encounter or how much we were carrying. And to have some level of interaction with strangers either by fooling around or just asking directions or stuff. - That's another point. People either ignore you completely or help you suddendly. Mostly the first one. But there's always that good soul~
All in all. I could consider this as an Anime Mary-Sue life-simulator. It's not entirely bad but is not that good either. Or at least not for me as I'm not really an anime-boot-licker. So yes. While there's a good ammount of things fixed. The thing still kind of meh.
Now, it's been a while since I've played so I can't give a fair score; hence the middle score. However, free to play games generally don't change much over the years.
The game had its charms. I loved how you could create music and play it in front of crowds. The player character system was definitely interesting; over the time you play your character gradually gets older (you can get a rebirth so you have the same skills but are younger, but that costs irl cash). Your skills are different too, you use them often in order to level them up instead of buying skills or something similar. I loved the graphics, I'm not one for "realistic" graphics because realism is something impossible to attain for gameplay graphics. So, I generally like more cartoonish graphics better because they can turn out exactly how the designers intended them to.
Now for the bad side: the combat system was terrible. When every action, even defending yourself or attacking, has a cast time bar, you know something is wrong. I'm not saying it's unmanageable or impossible to get used to, but it's generally a bad idea. I'd rather have turn-based or active battles. Hell, even the ATB system from Final Fantasy is better.
Keep in mind, I haven't played in a year or two, so I don't know if they've fixed the combat system or not. But hey, there's my thoughts on the game.
I'm damn near tempted to uninstall it...I get that maintenance has to be done once in a while but this thing is CONSTANTLY having connection problems and other tech **** frequently crashes, it frequently generates error **** too many connectivity issues. Out of AT LEAST 50 attempts to play, I've only managed to get it to work a total of 5 **** that was 50 tries per session.
I was going to come on here and say if you haven't played it yet, I recommend **** now I'm not so sure. The only thing I can tell you is that it is a pretty decent **** that is if, and I do mean a BIG **** can ever get it to work.
So, my recommendation **** you download this game, and you can hardly get it to ****'t waste your time...uninstall it and delete it...because that's what I'm going to do if I can't get it to work in the next few days.
And don't bother trying to contact support either...they're constantly down too.
It's a good thing I don't have a PREMIUM account or otherwise sank money into this, because I'd be a HELLUVA lot hotter about it than I already am.
So, if you have this game and don't have the issues I do, good for you...enjoy.
If you experience what I did, ****'s just say you have been warned.
SummaryWith more than seven million players in Asia alone, gamers have been highly anticipating the North American launch. Now, casual and core gamers alike have the opportunity to discover the world of Mabinogi. Without spending a dime, adventurers will find more dungeons with dangerous monsters. Players can equip avatars with innovative items...