Gliding, which is accomplished by stretching your arms out in a T-shape, is the game's main mode of transportation. Zenith is very immersive in its overall gameplay, allowing you to climb by reaching your hands out and grabbing onto something, much like an Assassin's Creed game.

Now let's talk about what you actually do in the game. Gliding is a huge aspect of the game allowing you to traverse the game's massive open world more quickly.

On paper, the task seems easy, but with the game's immersive atmosphere it was difficult locating the switches on the map, as they are mostly high in the sky. One quest that I have a personal hatred for has the player flying around a forest area (yes you can climb the trees!) and gliding in order to flip switches. Thankfully, there are a decent-enough variety of quests where it doesn’t feel like a grind doing them.

This prompts you with the quest objectives some are repeatable and are usually of the fetch-quest variety, while some are just one-offs. To find quests, you see the exclamation point on someone's head, and then you have to wave your controller to talk to the NPC. This then introduces you to the main quest given by Mika, whom I ‌believe is plotting to take over the AI world, but that’s just my opinion. You wake up dazed in the starting city with some relaxing music playing and your little robot friend giving you your first quests and tutorial. With your primary, role, and subclass decided you’re good to go! However, you will need to make a new toon completely. The great thing about these roles is you don’t have to make a new character to change your subclass or your main class. Healing doesn’t seem as daunting as it is with many other MMOs, at least with the Essence Mage

ĝPS - the 'let's stand in an AOE when I do damage' class (sorry, flashbacks to FFXIV’'s DPS users.).

Once you choose the class however you can then choose your role from the relatively standard choices: With the game still being relatively new, there aren’t a lot of choices as of yet to optimize your character, but with the game in first-person view, is the usual level of decoration really necessary?Ĭurrently, there are two classes of mage and the dual-wielding blade-master to choose from, with the third class the cyber ninja being released sometime this year. Like any MMORPG, your journey begins with creating your character and choosing your player name.

There’s still a lot you can do and a lot that could make you forget your stressful day at work, at least for a little while. With max level 40 at the time of writing this and only one raid (dungeons to come at a later date), it’s best to go into this game thinking of it as early access, but don’t let that scare you away from this magnificent title. The game, as fresh as it is, has already carved its way into the history books as one of the first VR MMORPGs.Įven with the other well-established MMOs out there, Zenith The Last City, definitely holds its own.

Zenith the Last City was released on Oculus Quest, PSVR and Steam on January 27th, 2022. Thankfully, there's no rogue AI or employee that plans to trap its players in the cartoon-like virtual world, well at least not yet. RamenVR has found the answer to that question, with the anime-inspired MMORPG Zenith: The Last City, which actually hits the itch of two categories:ġ.Ě new game into which you can sink hours and hours of timeĢ.Ě new MMORPG where you can grind your way to the max level. Everywhere you look, you can find some type of virtual-reality-inspired game, but the question remained: when will we have an MMORPG that can be our virtual playground? Anime and manga like Sword Art Online, even books and movies like Ready Player One by Ernest Cline have prominently featured persistent virtual-reality worlds. The idea has been a staple in media, with video games like Dot Hack, where notorious PKKER Haseo travels the virtual online environment called “The World” hoping to reunite with his love interest Shio. Virtual reality MMORPGs have been a dream for many since VR became an at-home gaming reality.

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