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OVERVIEW
Moonton brings a stellar and crisp take on idle RPGs to the mobile landscape. When I say crisp, I mean the crispiest kind of crisp. The layout, artwork, animations, all the things are very well presented and easy to navigate. That makes this game a huge win right off the bat, add in a very giving game that happens to be of the gacha' variety, there's no turning back once you start playing this gem.
STORY & GAMEPLAY
There isn't one? (story)
Let's just get into the gameplay... oh, wait. This is an idle game, so really what's present is to micro manage the equipment and pick your favorite characters to build a team. Let the game do the things. Lets just cover the different events in the game.
Overall gameplay of most events and activites within the game.
There's a lot of different activities to put your team through. That includes a combat tower of increasing levels of difficulty, Arena PVP to test your bank account... I mean dedication to the game's progression, a Labyrinth of clicking on tiles to reveal either enemies to battle or loot/power ups for within this event, Guild bosses, and a lot more of varying events to acquire in-game stuff. It's an idle adventure game, you do more almost by having the least amount of involvement with the actual game. This sounds bleak, but it's incredibly wonderful to have a game like this in your pocket... *-* as a majority of mobile games demand your time and constant babying to get anywhere in them.
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CONTROLS & PERFORMANCE
As mentioned, there's little to control minus what event your built team partakes in. In battle, you can decide between seeing the fantastic cutscene skill animations for each character but only if you settle for the 1x speed in battle. The longer you play this game, the less you'll want the slow pace as it becomes too obvious this game is meant for using the least amount of your time, making 2x speed necessary the further into the game you get. It is a bit of a shame, as those cutscene animations feel like quick scenes ripped from an anime making me want an anime adaptation of this in some way. Netflix, wink wink, you're already doing it, heck there's a DOTA anime coming...
This game has no bugs that I've witnessed. Game is smooth as butter, which is pretty smooth indeed. There may be the slightest tick of lag when battles get intense with all their battle skills going off at once, other than that, this game is light and non-taxing on your mobile device. Your phone won't run hot like the bloated games, this is quick and easy like a salad with light dressing, no greasy burger or pizza here. Non dairy so you feel fresh and game ready. I've said too much.
AUDIO
Most of what this game has for audio is limited. I mean that in a good way. There's not much need for a ton of different tracks for this game, you likely won't play it long enough at a time to matter. What's there is splendid. Most of the individual events have their own unique music. Essentially an opening tune and a looping subtle audio typically of birds tweeting and some sort of outdoor noise. It really fits and all of these are done fantastically, albeit in a limited capacity. You likely won't play long enough for any of these short tunes to matter, and that's the game being self aware enough to invest in quality of audio, not quantity. The main overworld music does serve its purpose well and does mightily fine. After playing daily for a month I still enjoy all of it and nothing has grown irritating or stale, in fact still quite enjoyable and especially specific music within each event really shines.
SUMMARY
Mobile Legends Adventure is probably one of the most giving and fair gacha'/idle adventure games to play. I'd recommend this game to anyone with the tiniest of interest as I haven't found anything disappointing about it except the fact it's like the game doesn't want you to play it (it does), but it's too good not to. This is also perfect for anyone who just wants a game to be quick and forget about it until later or the next day, play for a few minutes and leave again. The game accrues in-game items while you are away from it, leaving you to return to a lot accomplished without doing a thing. It's almost like free money, you just need to take it and play. So get to it!
SCORE
8.5 out of 10.0
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+ Great assortment of characters, animations pop right out, crisp and clean!
+ Great variety of content to do
+ Doesn't require spending money to be good/enjoy the game
+ Game is very friendly and giving towards summoning characters with pretty good summon rates
○ Brings little new to the table to make it truly special, it just does everything you'd expect it to very well.
○ Is a gacha', meaning it still wants your money to get characters/top tier but it is very giving and rewarding to free-to-play players as well with great summon rates.
- Game is designed to be played in limited amounts of time (limited present for those who want
to play for long periods, caters to the idle experience in the fullest)
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