LaTale
- Area: Global
- Official Site: LaTale
- Publisher: OGPlanet
- Developer: Actoz Soft
- Platform: Microsoft Windows
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Overview
"LaTale" is a 2D side-scrolling MMORPG similar "WindSlayer”, that offers a good deal of character customization, and numerous skill trees for each class.
Features
- Beautiful 2D graphics
- Solid interface
- Arena based PvP
- Smooth game play
- Great music
- Plenty of customization options
- Area: Global
- Official Site: LaTale
- Publisher: OGPlanet
- Developer: Actoz Soft
- Platform: Microsoft Windows
Review
Reviewed by Mister Happy
Start off by selecting one of the game's four classes; Warrior, Knight, Mage and Explorer. You're probably wondering, 'What the heck is an explorer?', well in LaTale 'explorer' means 'archer'.
I have no idea why MMORPGs feel the need to confuse their players by renaming established fantasy classes with obscure irrelevent names.
When you start off your journey in
LaTale, you'll be shown a pretty silly opening scene where the game tries to present a story to you, but the game's poor translations make the
opening scene worthless, so go ahead and skip it. Upon entering the game, you'll find yourself in a newbie area where you'll see a bunch of NPCs
that look like power rangers, you can go ahead and talk to them if this is the first MMORPG you've played, as they teach you the basics of moving around, but
if you've played any other MMORPGs before, just run past the newbie area.
The single most appealing part of LaTale is its skill system. Every class has
numerous skill trees and abilities to focus on. It's best to limit yourself to one of two skill trees, as it's better to be powerful in a few
skill trees rather than incredibly weak in a whole bunch of skills trees. The game also has an interesting feature where players have to complete quests to unlock facial
emotions. This is an excellent way to promote questing and a fun feature that I'm surprised other games don't have. Another interesting thing I
noticed in LaTale is the game's 'aggro' system. In every other side scrolling MMOPRG, if you bump into a monster, it'll deal damage to you, but in LaTale, only the monsters you attack first are able to hit you. This makes it so you don't have to search for a 'safe spot' every time you want to go away from your keyboard. If you're in a dungeon or find a monster with a red name, the above rules don't apply. Monsters with red names will automatically target you if they're near you.
LaTale is a surprisingly good game, but like every game
it has its downsides. The single most annoying aspect of LaTale is the game's clumsy controls. In order to run, players have to double tap left or right,
depending on which way to go. This sounds easy, but having to double tap left / right everytime you attack a monster, jump or use a skill is incredibly annoying. If you're
trying to fight a large number of monsters at any given time or kite a monster, you'll find yourself getting killed fairly often due to the game's clumsy controls. Another control related complaint I have is the game's looting system. LaTale's looting system isn't like
MapleStory where you can simply pick up loot on the floor by hitting 1 button, you'll have to click the V key to open up a corpse
and then space bar to loot the first item on the corpse or shift+space to loot all the items on the corpse. Having to click V + SHIFT + SPACE everytime I want to loot
something is absurd, especially when you'll be killing groups of monsters at a time. Even with LaTale's few drawbacks, the game is extremely well
done and addictive. It's worth the 550MB Download.
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