Recent reviews by Isxaly

Absolutely amazing for Early access,

However, the endless amount of bugs, glitches, exploits, dupes, hacks etc. has left the entire in-game economy and meta broken beyond belief just 3 weeks in.
After they take the time to overhaul the endgame and fix all the major issues, it'll be in great shape.

Honestly one of the best survival horror games. It makes Dead By Daylight and the Resident evil series look like child's play.

The concept in Naraka Bladepoint is that at the start of every match you need to do your best to be stealthy and avoid anyone who has a name with Chinese characters. If you're spotted, you will be absolutely ruthlessly murdered.

Been playing on and off since beta and it's great.

Devs always communicate with the playerbase and while they may not say what we want to hear, at least there's communication.

About the game itself: It's a perfect middle road between D4 and PoE. I can see myself sinking thousands of hours into this game over the coming years.

TL;DR One of those games where the first 5 minutes will decide whether you'll like it or not.

Pros:
1) Combat - There are so many classes with different playstyles, so chances are that there's something for everyone.
2) Lots to do - As with any MMO, there are years and years worth of content to chew through, so in theory everyone can find something to do. Starting with typical PVP and PVE and ending with farming , sailing, hunting, fishing, often with their own minigames.
3) Lots of chase items - There are a ton of (QoL) items that take months or even years to work towards if you feel like you are bored with nothing to do.
4) Gearing is vertical at first, but becomes horizontal after a certain point. You can quit for 2 years and still be near the same power level as before.

Cons:
1) New player experience is horrific, it almost beats Destiny 2 and Warframe on the level of confusion.
* UI is messy and won't make any sense for the first few days.
* You will be showered with 150 different items that you won't know what to do anything with, which is especially bad because inventory size is super limited at first.

2) Questing is a whole another topic and probably needs an overhaul with the permanent seasonal server update.
*Questing is somehow split between the questing window (Keybind O), actual NPC's and your personal annoying little black cockroach that loves to give you quests as well.
*To make things worse, you are often unable to claim questing rewards unless you talk to the NPC's again for no apparent reason, so every quest that has rewards has you effectively spam ESC to get out of the conversation just so you could start talking to them again to claim the rewards.

Neutral/Controversial:
1) There are more and more updates that favor PVE over PVP.
PVE: More activities, bosses and dungeons are added, "Marni*, a "safe realm" can be used for half a day which allows you to dodge any PVPers should any still exist in this game.
PVP: One sided non consequential PVP was basically removed and/or is heavily punished.
2) This game has no monthly subscription, so you can expect microtransactions to be shoved in your face, sometimes rather aggressively.

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