PC User Reviews

While the game was supposed to be a gacha game initially, I feel the developers taking over and deciding to change it to a regular game vs live service was a good idea. Yes it still have some systems that are remnants of its gacha predessors like Genshin and the like. Yet having the ability to play the game how you want really set this specific game ahead of the typical curve where the norm in gacha games were pump as much money into it in order to get what you want. There are smart tactics that were written into it from allow players to essentially get all the characters with some grinding. Sure there will be grinding in the game but giving incentives along the way allows to at least make the grinding feel less grindy and more enjoyable as the feeling of progress is made. I have personally played the game in small spurts where it allows me to still enjoy the game without worrying about missing out on premium banners or gear that I need to be online during a specific time frame for. The game is a breath of fresh air in the sense it allows the players just enjoy the game and the efforts that have been placed behind all the work of the game itself. In a way, I would hope that other "gacha" clones ditch the live service and make it a full game. I look forward to seeing what else they decide to do. So far from some of the content I have been able to experience, it has been solid and decent.

This game is something I was waiting for since the first gacha games started appearing. I really didn't want to play them because of the predatory practices. It is great that the makers of the game decided to make it a B2P title, and the asking price is incredibly reasonable for what it is. If this was a more expensive title, I would have given it a lower score, but considering the quality you get, it's really a good game.

It's easy to appreciate that this game started its life as a gacha game. The artwork is very good and the world is nice and colorful. It's clear the developers were banking on attracting customers based on its similarities to Zelda BotW. However, actually playing the game, it's painfully clear that the game is going to be a boring grind for many hours. I think I was 10 levels above the starting fodder and they were still damage sponges. I really couldn't care less how good the game looks when it plays like mobile garbage.

Nice graphics and engaging combat/exploration but unfortunately it suffers from the same issues every gacha game has which is endless running around and boring story/dialogue. You talk with person A, run to person B to talk, then run back to person A to tell them you spoke to person B. Now imagine that being every second quest.

Great Action No great graphic gacha. $30There's nothing to be desired, but a great and wonderful **** long as there is a continuous update, I recommend it to anyone.

Great game for the price, but a bit repetitive at times. Users who give this a 0 are just being disingenuous.

Great awesome genshin like game Played hours- and loving it so far.. people that give 0 to games that they haven’t even played an hour ..

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Bad Game with Bad Graphics and Music. Gacha Gagging with your PC. GTX 1660 SUPER TI Died on this game, when you loading the new quest

don't listen to anyone giving it a bad review, this game is good af, idk what people expected it's a gacha game without the gacha, you don't **** with that it's your own fault

The "Awakening" is realizing you just wasted $30 on a mobile corpse. Score: 1 / 10 If you ever wondered what happens when a developer panics, strips the casino out of a dying mobile game, and tries to sell the remaining skeletal remains to PC gamers for thirty bucks—welcome to Dragonsword: Awakening. This isn't a video game; it’s a forensic cleanup site of a failed gacha **** Gacha Ghost Town Hound13 proudly announced they "removed the microtransactions." Sounds great on paper, right? In reality, it’s a disaster. Imagine a theme park where they removed all the rides but left the ticket booths, the endless queues, and the overpriced hot dogs. The entire game is built around mobile-game architecture. You are still collecting duplicate heroes. You are still staring at 50 different red exclamation marks on your screen. You are still logging in to claim daily digital garbage. But since there is no loot box to pull, you are forced to unlock everything through a soul-crushing, mind-numbing grind that feels less like playing a game and more like working a second shift at a data entry firm. They kept the chore, but took away the dopamine.Unreal Engine 5? More like Unreal Optimization 0The developers slap the "Unreal Engine 5" logo on the screen like a badge of honor, but the game looks like a upscaled PlayStation 3 title covered in a thick layer of **** Graphics: Textures pop in 5 seconds after you look at them. The open world is a barren wasteland of copy-pasted trees and blurry **** Performance: I am running an RTX 4080, and this game managed to turn my PC into a literal space heater. Frame rates drop to cinematic single digits inside the main city. It stutters every time you swing a sword. Optimization didn't just walk out the window; it never entered the building.Combat and Story: A Masterclass in BoredomThe combat is advertised as a high-octane action-slasher. It’s not. It is a brainless button-masher where enemies stand still and politely wait for you to cycle through your character cooldowns. There is zero weight to the hits, no tactical depth, and the boss fights have the mechanical complexity of a **** for the story? It feels like it was written by an AI that was fed a diet of generic light novels and then suffered a severe system crash. The localization is purely offensive. It is so clearly a raw, unedited machine translation that sentences frequently lose all grammatical structure. It makes Google Translate look like Shakespeare.VerdictDragonsword: Awakening is a cynical, lazy cash-grab. It is an unoptimized mobile port trying to masquerade as a premium PC RPG. Do not buy this. Do not wishlist this. If you accidentally bought it, press Alt+F4 and run to the Steam Refund button before your two hours are up.Pros:The "Exit to Desktop" button works flawlessly.Cons:Everything else.

Un gioco molto sottovalutato e davvero ben strutturato. Una bella narrativa, leggera ma sempre avvincente, un'ottima progressione e un'eccellente comparto tecnico.

탐욕스러운 개발사들이 기본 무료(F2P) 가차 게임에 30달러라는 가격표를 붙였습니다. 게임의 밸런스, 전투, 그래픽, 음악 모두 엉망입니다. 캐릭터들은 개성이라곤 찾아볼 수 없는, 그저 뻔하고 진부한 유형의 집합체일 뿐입니다. 그래픽 설정을 최대로 올렸는데도 RTX 3080을 장착한 제 PC에서 형편없는 성능을 보여줍니다. 세부 묘사는 흐릿하게 보이고, 캐릭터들은 게임의 전반적인 아트 스타일과 전혀 어울리지 않습니다. 전투는 버튼 하나만 누르면 되도록 설계되어 있어서, 그 버튼 하나만 써도 게임 플레이에 전혀 지장이 없습니다. 이 게임을 삭제하거나 아예 구매하지 않는다고 해도 잃을 것은 아무것도 없습니다. 개인적으로 저는 이제 블랙핑크와 있지(Itzy)의 영상을 보러 가렵니다. 이 디지털 쓰레기 같은 게임에 대한 기억은 싹 잊어버리고 말이죠.

This isn't a game; it's the ravings of a madman. What genius seriously decides to put gacha mechanics into a single-player game? *Arise* turned out to be crap, and now this? Koreans, stop churning out gacha games—it just doesn't suit you.

Нету ничего, чтобы давать этой игре 10/10... Она ужасна во всем! Графика уровня ps3 или ранних MMO из 2015 года с чиби персонажами. Ворованное здесь все: музыка, персонажи, дизайн локаций, завязка сюжета. По сути это Genshin Impact только от Южнокорейских разработчиков. Да, они убрали гачу, но это никак не даёт им права так халтурить! В том то и дело, что они избавились от системы гачи, но никак не избавились от последствий этой самой гачи! Игру продают за 30$, но она графикой хуже чем тот же Genshin Impact который бесплатный и не заставляет вас покупать новые видеокарты RTX и прокачивать свой ПК до 32 - 64-гиговой оперативной памяти! Боёвка с Air Combat слизана с самых обыкновенных слэшеров. Максимально нудная корейская MMO гриндилка для своих, в которой тупо нечего делать, из которой просто вырезали гачу, показав всем: «Смотрите! Мы тоже умеем в анимешные фентези-блокбастеры!» Нет ребята, вы вообще не умеете ни во что! На моем ПК с RTX 5070, эта дрянь ещё и успевает тормозить и ловить такие статтеры, от которых у любого нормально ПК игрока глаза на лоб полезут от вида этой мобильной дряни! Управление такое, как будто все происходит под водой, серьезно! На клавиатуре в это играть тоже больно, также как и на джойстике. Тебя просто заносит от твоих же мувов. ДЕРЬМО! Мой вердикт этому гаче-мучению: 0/10!

By some miracle, this **** manages to combine the worst of Genshin Impact and Dragon Nest while conveniently leaving out their best parts. So here's Hound13, desperately firing up Unreal Engine 5, trying so hard to recapture that Genshin + Dragon Nest magic – except they cheap out on literally everything they can. They straight-up copy-paste half of Dragon Nest's assets, give us a soundtrack that's dead on arrival, characters flatter than a cardboard box, and a plot that reads like a 5-year-old's make-believe. They rip off Genshin's combat and progression system, but somehow manage to **** all the fun and nuance out of it. Then they cram in Dragon Nest's ancient dungeon designs and pad the whole thing with endless, braindead enemy spam – because apparently wasting your time is the only "content" they could afford. And when Webzen and Korean players found out, Hound13 played the victim card. They took this steaming pile – which would've EOS'd in three months as a mobile gacha – slapped a "single-player" label on it, and put it up for sale just to recoup their losses. Guess what? It actually worked. Many unsuspecting players saw the shiny UE5 anime gloss and the woeful "poor studio" narrative, and opened their wallets like it's a charity drive. Then they booted it up and – surprise – it's all surface. A hollow, boring slog dressed in fancy lighting. tldr: Hound13 **** this time. Don't fall for it.

Super fun gamez great graphics, engaging combat, and above all else no gacha, and a good **** you like anime games this is a treasure