Devilian - RPS Preview

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is calling Devilian, a new Korean Diablo-like MMO, an "afternoon nap in gaming form".  Ouch.

Devilian is the gaming equivalent of a convincingly painted view of scenery. It looks pretty decent until you get too close, and bang your head on the wall. It’s a cross between an action RPG and a free-to-play MMO, that offers an expanse of entirely free content, eight hundred thousand different in-game currencies, ninety-seven billion menus, and an almost hypnotically bland grind.

Which makes me think: there must have been so many talented people working on this. It looks great, it’s functional, enormously complex systems are all interacting and working, thousands of players are simultaneously on one server… none of this is easy to get right. And yet the result is something completely without inspiration, wholly derivative, and existing only to hopefully pull in some of that sweet, sweet Marketplace purchasing before the next game exactly like it comes along. What a strange thing to work so hard to create.

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