So, leaning on his word I suppose i'd look into the game.
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Gameplay: Like most Naruto games you'll find on BYOND, the first thing it starts you with is your village/clan selection.
This game works slightly different, your character is placed in rooms where he walks up to the desired NPC to select his village. The point of this doesn't make too much sense, and creation screens would have worked much easier.
After selecting your village, you are then required to pick 2 clans, by walking up to certain NPC.
I had a very hard time knowing what most of the selectable clans were, and most of the icons clearly didnt clash at all. About 5 of the clans were given generic icons, which sort of looked like Zeta ones. And then I eventually found a character from Kingdom hearts.
Once you've selected 2 clans, you are given a verification message which is delivered to OOC.
"Blank have been born in the Konoha having inherited your Father Bloodline Sora and your Mother's Bloodline Ichigo"
I found that a bit funny. This game has many strange clans to the game, the most odd
being "Ichigo" and "Sora".
Afterwards, you are sent to the village that you picked before. I chose leaf, and the turfs in this game arent anything worth mentionable. They all look very plain and boring.
So, after walking around for awhile, I realized that I didnt even need to take a genin exam to become a genin. It was strange, because I saw tests being held.
The training in this game is pretty simple, and at the same time very easy. You have 3 stats:
Ninjutsu: It determines the damage of the ninjutus you perform
Taijutsu: Determines the damage of normal melee or tai based jutsus.
Genjutsu: I couldn't find any genjutsus in this game.
There is a log for each stat; which I find very lazy and boring. I almost feel like this game is directed to very young kids.
Anyways, after I kicked a log ONCE, I was suprised to find this:
Yeah.. I was given most of my clan jutsus just by clicking a log once. Thats how easy this game is.
As far as "fighting" in this game goes, it is all based on numbers. There is no skill involved, its whoever hits harder will win.
The game has a very horrible system of damage, to the point where you cant even determine how much the other person hit you for. 80% of the jutsus do the same exact thing, and Im sure the only thing that was changed were thier icons.
So after you're given this many jutsus, stats, and ranks by a mere log kick, you're able to use those jutsus to your liking. Most did the same thing, and the others just added overlay.
The game offers you many tabs, most of which do not do anything. Jutsus, Magic, and Tech could all go into one panel to save me time; but they do not.
Stat tab: Displays all of your stats, current money, missions completed, and your kill/death ratio.
Backpack: All of your items go into here.
Commands: This game has ALOT of commands that do not serve any purpose. I wont go in depth but take a look for yourself.
Custom: Allows you to put on your own overlay and icon. Extremely exploitable.
Guild: Manages guild options.
Jutsus/Magic/Tech/Taijutsu: Jutsu and other moves go here.
There is some form of "auction" option, but I highly doubt the owner himself programmed this (Among with most if not all of the other features/icons in this game.) It displays the currency as Zenni.
Thats basically all there is to the gameplay. Train on the ridiculously easy stat giving logs, and try to kill people.
This game does give member boosts, and it seems like the game is more concerned in getting a rank from somebody, that they would go so far as to incredibly handicap everything for them. The game has no depth, and I wouldn't picture myself playing this for more than a day.
Presentation: This game really has nothing worth looking at. Most of the jutsus look like they were made in 5 seconds, and the RPG maker turfs they used for this are completely random. Almost nothing blends.
There is a weather system in this game, which makes things day/night, and sometimes rains. Things look even more worse when its like this.
The base icon that is used in this game is the same one that is used in every other rip. It tried to make an edit of it, but the only thing it did was darken the skin and rip off the top of its head.
The jutsu icons are technically the same. They are either stolen, or were made in 2 minutes.
Ever see this before?
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Originality: This game offers none of it. I was able to find coding/icons stolen from 4 separate games, one of them being Zeta.
It tries to implement some of its own ideas; such as marriage. If you want a quick laugh, then go experiment this in the game. Its the most exploitable bug so far.
You ask the person if you want to marry them, along with a comment. They can reply yes or no, and then send a message for all of OOC to see.
Results are humorous, and there isn't a limit to how long the message on OOC.
Bottom line, it offers little to no originality.
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Overall: This game isn't worth playing. It spends more of its time trying to obtain ranks from people, that it goes so far as to ruin its own gameplay/systems to do so.
I felt like the training in the game was deliberatly made that easy in an attempt to try and get people to play it more. I asked one of the staff to give me a "rank boost", and I was given a multiplication of 2x my original stat(s).
There really is no mystery as to why its rank 1. Though it does make a perfect example as why rank means nothing in a game.
Anyways, I suggest looking for games where the programmer will spend time trying to make the game better, rather than copy/pasting/stealing code to polish it for people with memberships.
-Rugg
(My next review will be SG2, a great game that is in need of one.)