2Moons Open Beta: First Impressions

So, last night, a guildie and I downloaded the "2Moons" beta. The file itself is about 900 MBs and took an hour to download from Gamer's Hell with a crappy 250 K/S rate, with an extra few minutes to install and patch. I used my pre-existing Acclaim login and was thrown into the game, which starts out windowed (but you can change the options later), and into the horrifically bland customization area, by which I mean, the biggest customization choice you'll have to make is what server to play on. That's right, you want to be a guy? You play knight, warrior, or summoner. You want to be a girl? You play magician, segnale (rogue-ish class) or hunter.

Segnale the demon bitch it is!



And into the game we go. Now, remember, "2Moons" is based on "Dekaron" a successful Korean grinder (but which F2Ps aren't?) that Acclaim's re-structuring and translating. There is WASD movement (ZOMGZ!), but for the real Asian game feel, you can use the point to click mode if you want. As with most Asian F2Ps, jack up those graphics of yours for maximum effect...and don't forget to turn on the blood and screams:



The character graphics aren't anything special, but the music, the backgrounds (with full bloom) and screams ain't bad (especially since it's free). With movement type B, you click once to select a mob/target and twice to auto-attack/interact. For items and skill, it's F1-F3 to use items, and the 1-9 keys for special moves. There is an auto-pot function which you can select in the OTHER tab under options.

The interface is clean and the help function...is actually helpful. For the few hours I played it, it was pretty fun (especially since I haven't hit the grind), and here's why:

THE PROS:

1) Fishing. Lemme tell you something about this. You really need to be awake to fish because those fuckers fight back. And guess what, if you lose, the game tells you--and I quote: "The fish got away because it was stronger than you, YOU PUSSY." Shock!! Tear!! I also got called a fucker by the game because of my sorry fishing skills--but I persevered, and finally caught myself some fish (which act as potions so you don't have to pay for them.) Fishing is not for the faint hearted in this game. Or those who don't want to be called pussy fuckers. *cry*

2) Splatter. Grow stronger and your targets seem to blow up. At first, you might just take a chunk out of your creature when you kill it, but later on, the critter blows up into multiple chunks. *purr*

3) The ghetto booties. The guildie I played with was very impressed with the ass on the Segita Hunter. I mean, it's a metal thong. I thought "Rappelz" had some skimptastic armour, but these bitches got armour floss. I found some armour for his character and basically they took what little there was covering the ass and put it on the sides.

Now the uglies:

CONS:

1) I didn't get this, but my guildie had some problems with known bugs involving "unknown logins" or "wrong passwords." He sent a note into Acclaim Help and I guess this was fixed pretty quickly.

2) Lack of customization. As in, there's none. Armour, faces, hair, nothing. You get one choice. THE END. I don't know if this will be changed in release, but checking the Dekaron website, it doesn't look like they have any customization either.

3) You know the grind's coming up...not in the first few hours...but it sure is coming up...but really, my expectations weren't that high since it's an Asian F2P after all.

So, yeah, if you don't have any games you're playing now, give it a go. It's not revolutionary, but it's a mindless distraction in a "Dungeon Runners" sort of way, and thanks to Acclaim's involvement, it's so much better in terms of translation than "Silk Road Online," or "Voyage Century Online." Perhaps you'll get berated by the Fishing guy too, that dirty pussy.

p.s. For some reason, they censored the word, "piss" to "p*ss." Now, I don't know about you, but in a game proliferated with "fucks" "pussies" and "shit," that's a little...hypocritical?