MU Origin 2 Evaluation

It’s a surprise the coders at Webzen discover time to sleep. Over the past couple of years they’ve rolled out a powerful variety of content material updates for RPG MU Origin, taking all of it the best way as much as model 7, and but they’ve one way or the other discovered time to make MU Origin 2 as properly.

This newest addition to the MU franchise – which began life as an internet sport again in 2001 – doesn’t take any main dangers. Actually, its overriding precedence is to provide the smoothest, best RPG expertise doable. The way you’ll really feel about that will depend on what sort of gamer you’re.

The phrase that finest describes MU Origin 2 is “streamlined”. In that spirit, you get simply three character sorts to select from on the outset: Darkish Knight, Darkish Wizard, and Elf. And it’s only a brief hop from selecting an avatar to taking over story quests.

These are allotted by NPCs with an limitless provide of wierd jobs to dish out, usually involving the killing of monsters. When you settle for a narrative quest, by merely tapping a immediate on the left of the display, you robotically in the direction of the motion.

You robotically kill the enemies you discover there, too, although returning to the quest-giver to obtain your reward seemingly constitutes a brand new quest.

Naturally, there are non-story quests too. These are designed to maintain you shifting in the best path, progress-wise, by encouraging you to utilize modes and options as they turn out to be obtainable, such because the Guild, the dungeons, and the Public sale.

There are additionally each day quests, and innumerable kill quests. Apparently, these contain not solely killing ten of X monsters, however killing waves of monsters by travelling round and discovering them on the situation map. A single quest can see you terminating over 100 monsters, all with out touching the display.

MU Origin 2 has a particular autopilot vibe, and that partly extends to the RPG admin. For example, whenever you decide up an merchandise a button seems permitting you to equip it immediately, with out going into your stock, and you may switch an merchandise’s enhancement degree to a brand new one too.

The Good

Nevertheless, MU Origin 2 is just not totally an autopilot affair. Whereas the opening few hours are greater than normally streamlined, finally you’ll want to start out paying shut consideration if you wish to get wherever.

That time comes at round degree 150. The primary 100 ranges fly previous in a haze, as you romp invincibly by means of all of the battles the sport has to throw at you. Your Zen (the sport’s most considerable forex) is seemingly endless, and also you level-up at breakneck pace.

However issues begin slowing down after that. Upgrading your abilities will get costlier as the extent will get increased, and also you purchase extra abilities in addition, so that you begin operating out of Zen. And the tempo of your levelling up slows too, which frequently means you possibly can’t tackle story quests till you’ve scraped collectively some extra XP.

This in flip forces you to make some selections – about learn how to spend your restricted Zen, and which actions to have interaction in that can assist you progress the quickest. Do you bounce into an occasion just like the EXP Dungeon or the Guild Battlefield, or do you tackle a easy single-player dungeon or Infinite Tower as a substitute?

Or you possibly can throw off the shackles totally and simply discover the areas of the MU continent that you simply’ve unlocked up to now. Motion is dealt with with a digital stick on the left whereas your abilities are arrayed on the best. Utilizing these inputs you possibly can maraud round Atlans, killing fishy issues, or Devias, killing yetis.

There’s a wealthy number of monsters to kill and environments to kill them in, and whereas technically the visuals are solely so-so the designs are fascinating and diversified.

The Unhealthy

Presentation is just not a usually robust level for the sport, with tiny, poorly localized textual content and ropey voice audio leaving a nasty style. As acknowledged beforehand the sport can really feel prefer it’s on auto-pilot at instances.

The Verdict

MU Origin 2 is just not revolutionary, however it’s worthy of the MU license. Whereas there’s a lot to maintain you busy, and all of the staples of the cellular RPG style are right here, you’ll take pleasure in it most in the event you like your RPGs pretty light-weight.