Worst MMO Ever? - Hero Plus

not many games need a suggestion of genocide counter but I'm five minutes in and we're on one so let's see how bad this gets you know how most Chinese Takeaway Foods look and taste the same I mean some are better than others but chicken balls and sweet and sour sauce from one basically looks and tastes like chicken balls and sweet and sour sauce from any other they all have the same plastic tubs and a large bag of foam pretending to be prawn crackers I'm beginning to think top down Eastern MMOs are the same they are everywhere and there's a numbing Comfort to be found in the almost identical design you could have 10 different ones installed but it wouldn't matter which one you launch you're going to have the same experience but much like finding a hair net in a spring roll or a human finger in the spare ribs it's the mistakes and flaws which make them memorable so let's go and kill a thousand identical enemies again just like old times welcome I'm Josh Drive Hayes and this is worst MMO ever a series where I play every MMO I can find in a journey to find the worst drop a like on the video or sub to the channel for more MMO stuff ring the bell for all the future notifications as usual a massive thank you to all the supporters on patreon Twitch and YouTube who keep the channel alive more information on how you can support at the end for now let's begin today we are playing hero plus the steam relaunch of the Net game MMO hero online except it's not a steam relaunch it's just a steam launch and the Steam servers are exactly the same the steam promo page images are something special they are so painfully generic that I forgot them as I was looking at them like my brain Switched Off and refused to even make a memory screaming to myself we have enough memories of this game despite having never played it please Josh go outside so of course I downloaded it and the game installs 87 stacking patches each requiring the previous to work and I just know with this level of optimization I'm in for a good time the only thing that could make this better would be an intrusive anti-cheat software and oh there's our old friend Zing code three the gang's all here the steam advert demands I experience now so I click play and it says no please run the launcher again so maybe experience now was a Tab 2 optimistic I joined the server Darkness one and the game reminds me I haven't created a character I know game I've just downloaded you what a strange thing to remind me that I haven't done so character creation you've got two factions straight lines versus squiggles then you can select your character I'm not saying that wrong it's written wrong in fact poorly translated words and straight up missing letters in some cases entire missing paragraphs make this game an experience like how the lowercase letter L is stylized into this looping design every time it's used and it's the only letter to be stylized like this character height much like real life is divided into four phases one through four and then it asks for my name so I write Josh Drive Hayes and it just says incorrect no reason given just no well okay game I guess you would know best then before I finish adding my name I am disconnected from the server because I took too long to make a character hero plus has no time for laziness make your character quickly or no game for you so we're finally in first gameplay mechanic memorize this complete list of hotkeys there will not be a tutorial for anything and nothing will be explained so please take a screenshot in your mind and refer to this often with that done let's go movement is left click all the arrow keys camera controllers hold down right click and move the mouse mouse wheel is zoom but it's reversed scroll out Zooms in music is also off by default for some reason M opens the local map and it's actually quite nice you've got icons of important NPCs connections labeled to other zones and the enemy list sorted alphabetically on the right and selecting an enemy from this list not only shows you where it's found on the map but also gives a complete list of potential drops from that enemy again sorted alphabetically this may look basic but is actually functionally fantastic all it needs is a search feature there's no real problems here so like every MMO in this style we start in a small village close to but not connected to the capital there is a village Elder who needs our help so we have a chat and they say and this whole paragraph really does deserve reading because it sets the expectations for the quality of World building and writing as a whole this stone is originally worn is in well-being and in this town villagers live altogether but then in last year one last year a plague started to spread among people they started to steal food carelessly first they didn't take it as a big deal but then it started to increase slowly so at the end people ran to Dragon Castle now remaining people are only old ones should we kill them in order to go back to stabilization you need to collect 10 wolf pup Leathers right so a plague happened people are hungry should we kill every single old person please go and collect ten wolf Leathers just gonna pop that genocide suggested counter up and stick a little one just there don't worry we'll be seeing this again so the first Quest is collect 10 wolf pup leather thankfully the village is surrounded by Wolves well thankful for me the villagers probably found this quite hazardous combat is double left click so behold combat thrilling stuff now I've played a few MMOs before and one thing they often have is skills or abilities to give the player a sense of agency and control over early game encounters I believe I demonstrated my Mastery of the system in the rift video abilities are nothing game breaking something like a more powerful attack or an AOE sweep hero plus does not and will not give you any abilities until about one or two hours into the game until then it's left click and that's all you get and believe me I did try and find the skills I think they're called arts in this game but the Arts window was empty in fact every window was empty and I opened them all this is it this is what Peak UI performance looks like take note designers if I can't see my character anniversary at a glance you are going to lose me but maybe I'm complaining prematurely I'll just play Follow The Quest talk to NPCs I have faith in the process hero plus is made by netgame they make two other MMORPGs that means they make three MMOs I'm sure they know what they're doing I opens the inventory all the items have tool tips usable items all begin with the text roll your mouse clicks this game is Advanced even for me I never mastered the rolling Mouse click whatever that is I hope I master it by the end of this playthrough this game like many MMOs with no faith in its early game gives you an intro Pack full of powerful stuff so I open it up and get a super powerful weapon I've always found it strange that these kind of games treat the early game as an unfortunate chore an embarrassing relic of early design and want you to rush through it they just give you gear out of pity look gamedevs if you don't feel that a part of your game has value to the player base or respects a player's time or represents what your game is best at and you clearly don't when you feel the need to give the player the ability to skip it just consider getting rid of it or making it optional I'd rather play 500 hours of Brilliance than 1 000 hours of filler and it's hard to make Brilliance believe me I promise you'll keep more players if you don't open with the worst experience you're capable of making anyway we level up and get some skill points we open the character menu and click the little plus icon then type how many of those skill points you want to assign strength defense all the usual things I collect 10 world Furs return them and the old dude says wow you already came look game I'm planning to escape reality not be reminded of it thank you very much next Quest find some grain this means clicking sacks around the village however in a fun exciting mechanic I've not seen used too many times in too many games you can just fail and the grain sack will still disappear and the hitbox of the grain sack is just awful it's like a single Pixel somewhere in the middle so you're hunting with the cursor double click when you finally find it and the game just straight up goes nope wrong sack try again this collection can fail mechanic clearly took so long to design and code they had to take resources from elsewhere like whoever was responsible for giving the fence Collision too busy making the world's smallest grain hitbox but then I discover a fantastic glitch when you interact with anything including the grain you get a text box pop-up with the options back close or forward so when I do successfully collect a bag the textbook doesn't close instantly I wonder what happens if I spam click back and then try to collect the same bag again knowing it's the correct bag well yeah that works you can just Spam collect one bag backward and forward until the textbook box closes wolves killed Go and Kill boers next we also have a healing tea item and all healing items have a roughly one second cooldown but you pretty much can spam drink them and in the higher levels this is required out of curiosity I decide to see how easy it is to die one floor these types of games suffer from is unkillable god syndrome removing all sense of danger from the player and I'm happy to say you actually can die pretty easily in hero plus meaning your input as a player does at least matter now there's no PVP on this map as you'll see we're in a safe Zone as labeled down there to the top left you'll notice we have health and Chi your cheers for attacks and abilities but also injury and wide injury goes up when you get hit or die and reduces your damage based on its percentage we'll see more of this later the Wide Bar however I have no idea it's not even on the Page's actual instruction manual maybe it's a reminder to go to the gym like the game knows my desk is covered in takeaway in Cups of Tea and it's gently hinting hey Josh wide meters getting a bit full maybe go and hit the StairMaster if you try and click and move somewhere you can't you move you'll also get this cute little jiggle sound effect foreign system is it becomes remarkably inconsistent because sometimes you can't walk on flat ground that you should be able to walk on but you can walk directly up onto an archway or into a tree hero plus really keeps you guessing with its landscape this NPC starts to think you are incredible and I mean finally it's about time I didn't genocide all those old people for nothing we're then sent off to kill the king boar get some poison armor which you can't wear because all armor is both class and gender specific and I have an unidentified item shown by the big question mark in my inventory so I right click it and get asked do you want to discriminate the item I think that's meant to be identify how many passes through Google translate did this take you this NPC says I am relieved you already killed the giant wild boar and came whatever floats your boat mate I'm glad I can save her some time now a slight annoyance pressing M opens the local map but pressing M again does not close it instead it opens the world map and from there you can see level ranges and click on other map locations I guess I'm just used to a hotkey both opening and then closing a specific window not having a bunch of Windows it Cycles through because I keep forgetting this happens we get sent to the stable Master travel down this hill and the in-game music just stops this is something hero plus does a lot background music seems tied to location or time of day or just how the game is feeling because there are sporadic dead zones where nothing plays these Bandits chase me in perfect step like they're rehearsing for West Side Story and then I finally reached the main city and as expected there's just no one here NPCs stand around in mute acceptance of their dull fate to be novice trainers of skills no one will need they also have a rather stylized nameplate with greeny blue wings spreading to either side but this reads as closer to Egyptian iconography than Eastern martial arts you're getting your Aesthetics confused the stable Master gives us a horse mounted with and now we're off to chat to Lord Sagan and become a real Warrior he says Gratz you are now a real muramin which a Google search tells me is the term for martial arts practitioners in the Wilshire genre of fiction but wait there's more Lord Sagan lets us know that before you go as a warrior we need to do more things but he can't tell us what they are because he is too busy right now yeah you're clearly swamped with work mate sorry for taking up your valuable time so with Lord Sagan busy gate guard Lee has a quest for us go and talk to all six other gate guards and ask them what they believe to be the most important aspect for a warrior Lee himself says loyalty agree ending statements with agree question mark feels very self-indulgent LinkedIn humble brag I'm worried Lee's going to start telling me about the time he missed an interview to feed a homeless man but then it turned out the man owned the company he was interviewing for and now Lee is the general manager of everything I've also discovered this area's music seems for some reason to be linked to Lee's text box and clicking back resets the music [Music] thank you [Music] so I go to learn six generic missions from six guards and then Lord Sagan's icon just stops showing on the map this is another intermittent issue with hero plus sometimes the maps just don't want to map when we do return to Lord Sagan he says okay tell me what each guard said was important oh no it's multiple choice you didn't tell me I'd have to remember what people said or pay attention there's six choices and if you get one wrong you just have to restart the entire thing so I think it's going to be quicker to go back to each guard to remind myself what they think matters but they don't tell you twice if you missed the information the first time the only way to get it is to drop the quest restart ask them all again and write the answers down Fine Lee likes loyalty Wu says virtue Sam says love Shin wants Humanity John has morality and Jules says chivalry Sagan accepts all these answers and says well done you are now awari uh go get a better weapon from the warrior trainer so we do and the trainer says nope you're too low level go away right guess we need to level up then come back let's do this there is a magical tree in the center of the Town Square celebrating Arbor Day a holiday all about planting trees and interacting with it gives you a magical powerful passive buff thanks trees this Quest needs us to find a woman's lost ring we do this by killing bandits and bringing 10 Rings back wait what no you've lost one ring why do you need ten are you just picking up and trading to a nicer ring so I go and kill 10 thieves and gather some rings now Quest specific items are collected automatically other items like weapons and healing items are dropped and must be manually picked up but all of them go into the same inventory I gain an Arts Point while doing this and still don't know how to spend it so we'll figure that out later I also discover the hunting Aid window it looks like a programmable macro and I have 73 minutes of use remaining you see games like this don't really value the plot the paper thin excuses of stories that attacked onto quests to provide the most basic of emotional motivations to go and do them it's all superficial because the entire thing is basically mechanical and this is a complex program to tell your character when to attack eat but off run or switch weapons you can essentially program this then leave the game playing and go and do something else more fun amazingly I do spot a few other players but when I try to inspect them to compare their end game equipment to mine they don't want to be inspected now you might be asking what makes me think their end game look these types of MMOs have two types of players deeply enfranchised max level fully geared elite players who can clear everything and have been playing for years and me this NPC needs a kitchen knife repaired which introduces us to the blacksmith now this would be a great chance to explain how the blacksmith system works but it doesn't do that it doesn't show you the blacksmith screen or how any of the upgrading works it's just talk to the blacksmith and then talk back to the original woman and then Lord Sagan clearly finding some time in his busy schedule for us asks us to go and collect taxes from all the local businesses but Lord Sagan clearly likes us quite a lot because he asks like this honey will you help why yes sugar plum of course I will you know when I downloaded a game called hero plus I was really worried that all I'd be doing were heroic exciting things and I'd miss out on the chance to play a small Time Financial bureaucrat oh thank God I was wrong there I hope the next few quests have me inspecting the sanitation Network or filling out important export forms when do I get to do my taxes the next Quest is for the warrior class trainer specifically prove my loyalty by bringing them a plus two small bronze sword with an opal okay the quest also instructs me place this item in the first slot of my bag before interacting now there are very few MMOs which require a quest item to be in a specific place within the inventory to make the quest work but hey these guys have three MMOs they know what they're doing so look I have a bronze sword or a small bronze sword or a plus two furious bronze sword and I have an opal do they want them all separately do they want the specific item named exactly plus two bronze sword so I try every combination to hand something in and it doesn't work maybe the Opel is like a gem and I need to slot it into the sword the swords do say socketing available so I chat some NPCs and find the socket Creator unfortunately it's going to cost me 16 000 gold and I don't have that so I'll come back when I do the game also keeps telling me to upgrade my Arts with multiple s's but I don't have any Arts I have however discovered pressing a will attack whatever is attacking me less clicking good I now need to collect 10 wolf fangs and the drop rate seems to be about 20 with enough money gathered I can finally add a socket to the sword and it turns out Opals don't go in sockets what does this Quest want me to do I can't even Google it because the game is so unknown not even Google has search results for it do you specifically need an item exactly called plus two bronze short sword with an opal I don't know what drops that and I've checked everything on the map by now my inventory is full of junk so I sell a load of stuff each item must be sold individually confirmed through several clicks so this is not quick and now guardly wants some ape liquor and wolf heads that means a new area so off we go to the highlands I've also earned a diva Nation lot this flashing icon up here clicking it gets us some prestix which Shake around and then you click stop and you may win a prize who knows right after the highlands we go or lowlands are we going up or down okay here's a really strange issue I've just noticed we're at the Dragon Castle map and our local map shows that the Highland Zone exit is above us what you'd assume is north but the world map shows the highlands as being below or south of Dragon Castle the same is true for the other area the local map shows Venom swamp to the South and the world map shows Venom swamp as above us to the north but when you actually look at it no maps at all have north east south or west marked on them other local maps and world maps upside down compared to each other how does that even happen what is your world layout so we fight into the highlands all areas are basically the same but with higher level enemies but the highlands does introduce a brand new sound effect and some voice acting in fact this is the sound effect the game uses the most the enemy laughing [Laughter] every enemy from now on will laugh at you but all the laughs are different and that's how you can tell what's attacking you they're also all audio balanced way louder than the rest of the game you can also fight while you're on Horseback but your horse will take damage and eventually die and when that happens you can't keep riding it and I did not know that finally reach 10th level or first down as the game calls it with dams being the tens and Caillou's being the ones column and then get told we can start the Epic 12 demons Quest so I'll do that soon I'm also noticing a huge amount of weapon drops but nothing is better than my free Noob spear eventually I do actually die and respawn at a local Tavern so I have a chapter Tavern owner and they ask me if I want to go to the Central Market I think you know what sure but then discover I'm not playing on an m game PC Cafe so I can't which means this game is designed and likely sponsored by PC gaming cafes but then it just lets me teleport anyway so the warning was pointless this is effectively the teleport Network Tavern owners can send you to HUB cities the central Marketplace or to other taverns but it's up to you to just kind of discover that because the game has no interest in telling you Anubis some food for my dead horse to try and revive it but I can't feed my horse unless it's summoned then I can't summon it because it's dead so I can't feed it because it's dead while killing Apes I Google Hero plus arts and get nothing then I run inside a tree who is responsible for object and asset Collision what were you doing were you recording all of the laughs I use the taverns teleport Network or tactical space as it calls it and then I start the Epic cryptic tale quest line now the problem with this whole quest line is not only is the translation so bad the plot is basically nonsensical but the mechanical explanation of the quest requirements is so poor it's mostly trial and error and you'll see how bad this gets in the final step I literally had to dig into the depths of the internet and by that I mean I went to page two of Google to find a guide basically somebody important has been killed in a special magical room somewhere and we need to go and investigate but we might need four books to be able to do this I discovered the central swirly Vortex is also a teleporter but there's no cursor over interaction change or tool tip like the other teleporters you just need to stand in it this guard tells me I need the key book but Banker son money has it and likely won't hand it over easily mate I can just kill him every other problem has been solved with Bloodshed you literally suggested genocide I don't see this being any different but it turns out Bank of Sunny is an NPC that can't die and he does indeed have the book but won't give it to us unless we go and kill Renegades in the highlands and find his engagement ring see more death also if I had a pound for every NPC who's lost a ring in this town and wants me to bring 20 or 30 back I'd have enough money to just buy everyone some rings seriously the countryside must look like someone spent a week slapping Sonic so I go and kill stuff and now the music has changed from Eastern wixia to light rock [Music] remember how I said every enemy has a different laugh well you'll know that you're leaving the Rogues and getting close to the Renegades when you start to hear this noise you've leveled up I level up again and get told I can learn Arts by speaking to the Highland Tavern clerk yes mechanics finally I just need to kill some spearmen for this but they aren't on this map so logically they're likely on the next highest map which is the Venom swamp so I'll head there soon I kill more bears and Rogues and the music has just stopped completely maybe they went a bit too hard on the light rock and the game just needs a rest [Laughter] playing this game is like actively zoning out I don't feel like I've played a game as much as lost a day I do sometimes wonder with the absolute plethora of games available to people what keeps someone playing this is it bad internet lack of exposure sunk cost fallacy I'm not saying you're wrong for enjoying whatever game you want to enjoy but if you're playing this because it's the best you have access to or know about you're in for a treat when you discover every other MMO daisy chain Mart teleports from the highlands to the Central Market to the swamp and then pay a small price for the privilege every step of the way and now begin to struggle as I'm quite under leveled which means potions prepare to be chugged the plot now thickens or gets murkier depending on how you look at it the important murder room isn't actually a room at all but a secret location in the swamp and I need several objects in this case four books to see it and those books need to be found by trading valuable objects to the people that own them and one of the valuable objects is mad Physicians boots so I need to go and kill him for his boots but I get warned be careful he's crazy yeah obviously otherwise they'd just be called Physicians Boots the clue was in the name so I take out the Mad physician grab his boots and go to master physician bong at the main castle and he has more multiple choice questions for me before he gives me the book that's needed to solve a murder and if you get these questions wrong he tells you you must now bring me 100 lesser healing tea items to try again which sounds really irritating but you don't need to do just talk to him again and guess the right answers until you get it right they won't take anything from you here's one of my biggest problems with hero plus so far it's only really fair to critique something against what it's actually attempting to be if something isn't claiming to be the most amazing game ever it's unfair to critique it as that you have to look at the experience the game is trying to give you and then working out whether it's succeeding and hero plus is just trying to be a completely generic If serviceable Mob farming game with Eastern wuxia themes and it succeeds at that it don't get me wrong I don't think this is a good game but I also don't think it's trying to be anything impressive it's aiming for mediocrity and firmly succeeding like if a young child were to bring you a painting they'd done you'd tell them Ah that's great well done champ I'm gonna put this on the fridge and you should be proud of this you don't tell them no the colors clash looking at it makes me want to vomit and your attempt to Art makes me regret even having you you tell them it's great so yeah hero plus is great in the same way that a pile of mashed potato arranged by a baby is great they weren't aiming for much and they absolutely achieved it I've also just noticed my character's nameplate says nameless and then instantly follows that with my name I get back to swamp kills and giant spiders and this dude asks if we want the magical mystical book and if we do he'll trade US 10 dead toads for it do these people realize I'm trying to solve a murder and all they want is food well I go and kill some toads and okay I did not expect that a tree decorated with hanged people that's quite brutal I especially like how the hanged bodies are 3D models but the Hang skeleton is just a flat texture because modeling skeletons is hard but still dead bodies is quite a mature decoration what age rating is this game it doesn't seem to have one on steam or its own website but I search hero MMO age rating and I get this paragraph really fun and age-appropriate for 10 year olds but has to be rated 17 plus for legal reasons now that's not too much help though as that's a review for The Elder Scrolls Online kill some toads chugs and Potions get poisoned finally get the book and now with all four magical books I can go and find the secret location in the swamp no hints as to where it is at all it's just in the swamp somewhere so I wand around and die now when you die there are three options use a resurrection scroll respawn at a safe zone or pay gold to just get up right here so I try to use a scroll and this opens the shop finally let's have a browse now interestingly there doesn't seem to be a way to open the shop Beyond this there's no UI button no flashing icon no option in the menu so I'll give them credit for not shoving the shop in your face the shop itself however everything you'd expect potions boosts Buffs tonics increased experience increased damage lower injury from Death better amounts more inventory space if you can monetize it it's been monetized but as with any good MMO shop you can't just spend direct actual currency you need to convert real money into proprietary currency to make it harder to track exactly how much you're spending so I try and buy some proprietary currency and you cannot buy any premium currency until you reach level 60. that is honestly unexpected you're actually preventing new players from spending a ton of money early on and while this doesn't excuse the Pay to Win nature of the end game of this because the end game is all that really matters I do at least have some respect for this decision from a business point of view I suppose it makes a weird Twisted sense because if someone is willing to push through hero plus until level 60 they're likely a special kind of masochist and giving them the ability to spend money on the game once they hit level 60 would probably be seen as some kind of reward for good behavior back in the main Market I need some potions but hero plus is another game with player-owned shops little campsites you can set up while you're offline now many people tell me they would love an MMO where you can run a little shop when you're offline but the reality is this is what it ends up looking like a cop copy paste mess of identical shops in an unnaturally open and flat area with no idea which each one is selling unless you interact and with them being positioned next to the actual auction house which has a better interface for buying and selling you're not going to use these tents it just ends up making the place look cluttered I wonder if I can teleport to a super high level map just out of curiosity to have a look around and no level requirements prevent this no exploration for you so while I grind through the remaining quests to try and survive in the swamp but let's have a read of some reviews hero advertised a golden dog for twenty dollars with no description to say it was non-tradable after buying one for myself and one for my girlfriend I opened the package and the description only after receiving the item stated it was non-tradable I requested a refund after waiting all day I decided to dispute the transaction through PayPal requiring Net game to respond in 28 days netgame responded by Banning my account I used to love this game 10 years ago when it was called hero online it was a proper Community with the GM's being active Online daily and you could contact them in game with issue you came across today there's hardly anyone online prices are insanely inflated and even if it's a free game it's not worth it needs better English translations and a new server just for steam players cool this review from someone with 2705 hours on record are you okay do you need us to send someone are you being held against your will forced to play Hero plus here are one line is back but not quite after playing World of Warcraft and Star Wars the Old Republic this is very bad so it's the same song and dance we've heard a thousand times before used to be good got greedy now dead while the swamp is still a bit too punishing the highlands are a bit too easy and it's got to the point where I literally cannot die I can just stand in a mob of Highland enemies and not take any damage you know six hours in I still not learned how to roll my mouse clicks this is clearly mystical knowledge beyond my comprehension so I must keep playing deep in the swamp I find a portal to a mine This is likely an instanced dungeon I know how these work so I pop on through I decide what's the worst that could happen this was a mistake the mine is full of level 55 spiders so I get one or two had killed okay no issue I'll just leave them mine so I revive to leave I just need to walk to the teleporter which is in the middle of the mine surrounded by spiders which I can't get to because the spiders kill me so I revive and die again because you revive in the mine away from the teleporter with spiders between you and it you might be seeing the issue here I think not a problem I've got some recall Scrolls these take me back to the Last Tavern I used but nope using a recall scroll in an instant dungeon sends you back to the start of the dungeon where I am anyway just far enough from the exit that I die again I even try to run around the mine and lure the enemies away nope they move faster than you and will kill you I am stuck here for 20 minutes I am unable to lead the mine for 20 minutes I realize the only way I'm going to be able to leave is if I Dash to the exit lift and somehow all three enemies that will meet me on that Journey miss their attack at the same time and after 20 minutes that finally happens what an awful dungeon setup leaving after being constantly wrecked by spiders for 20 minutes has taken me to 100 injury and I seem to be hitting super low so I need to deal with that now the game guy tells me that injury is removed through meditation so you press Zed to meditate but you cannot meditate while you're in combat mode and to leave combat mode you need to press X Oh yay more needlessly complicated button chains which don't don't add any actual gameplay between one system to the next it's not like pressing Zed the meditation button while in combat does anything different if the function of Zed changed from in combat to not in combat I'd understand the need and the requirement for a manual switch because you're telling the game what you want the character to do but Zed just doesn't do anything while in combat so instead how about when not in combat press X to put your weapon away or press said to put your weapon away and start meditating God never has meditation irritated me so meditation get ready for some serious gameplay while meditating you must stand still and you recover one percent of injury every six seconds so from 100 you must remain motionless for 10 actual minutes thankfully this means I can leave the keyboard go make a cup of tea and contemplate My Life Choices which are all mostly bad fully healed this Quest needs me to find a super special magic herb to kill someone the NPC even tells us the herb is so rare other people cannot even know its name but we are special so he tells us it is called the verb of relief top secret knowledge the herb of relief is found inside the tree of healing however there are three trees of healing and only one of them has the herb and I think it's random per player and they're all placed as awkwardly as humanly possible to get to so this Quest is a slog but then we hand it in and walk directly over this Archway right this happens because hero plus has no height access for the game while the game assets do have height within the visual scape the playable landscape is actually flat there's no jump kind of like Guild Wars one and believe me that is the first and only time that hero plus and Guild Wars 1 will appear in comparison to each other this also means that walking under this asset with the upper section being purely graphical the top of the asset is treated as the floor so fences are ethereal tree trunks are ghosts and archways are just fancy bits of floor guardly has another quest for us he says the Renegades and Rogues of the northern lands are gamblers drunks and people who lost their peaceful lives due to unfortunate circumstances that adds in if you're on your way the highlands can you kill all of them it's not often the genocide counter gets to two but here we are so we set off to murder literally everyone in the name of peace and on the way I meet mistress peony who has this insightful bit of knowledge to share yes mistress one I could not agree more after killing literally hundreds of Rogues I hand in the quest and Lee tells me well done you've saved a lot of lives I don't think you understand what I've just done Lee everyone is dead you know I've still not found the small bronze sword plus 2 with the opal and I'm beginning to think it doesn't exist my map tells me that Bandits drop small bronze swords so I Channel my inner Godly and just kill all of them and after 10 minutes nothing has dropped at all I haven't checked the central Marketplace to see if anyone is selling one but clearly it's a low-level item and no one would want or need it I do however find a horse Revival pill so I've got my mount back this will last all of 10 minutes until it gets killed again I decided to explore a bit more and travel to the Justice District another open City safe Zone and after talking to a few NPCs I wonder can I just take a normal bronze sword and upgrade it somehow to plus two I don't know what system does this but I'll give it a go so I try the blacksmith I trial and error and you can but how do you upgrade things well it turns out that you use an opal so it's a translation mistake the game doesn't want a bronze sword plus two and an opal it wants me to use an opal as an upgrade reagent to make a bronze sword up two plus two so finally having got the right sword in the right place in the right inventory I can run back past this actually quite impressive Golden Dragon and hand in the Warrior Quest this sends me to get some books and reading those books finally gives me arts combat skills finally I can fight better so I throw the Arts points I've been collecting on some skills drag those skills to a hot bar get into a fight and discover that Arts are not that good in most cases your auto attack is actually better also enemy archers don't seem to have a ranged attack I've just noticed that they do shoot bows at you but they need to be as close to you as enemy melee Fighters sword or Spearman to actually shoot their bows it's also nice to see the world chat being really supportive and respectful of everyone with messages like want to buy staff hacks for PayPal it's just a beautiful thing to see go on hero plus staff you get that bread right back to the find the secret altar in the swamp Quest and I'll admit it I am stumped I've explored everywhere I've used every context clue the game has given me I have all four needed books I cannot find a hidden altar so I consult this translated guide and my God reading the actual steps needed to complete this Epic Quest I can't help but wonder how is anyone ever meant to do this the game says you need the four books which I have but then you just need to go and find the altar but this is wrong there's a rather important puzzle beforehand what you actually have to do is find the four pillars spread around the map that are never mentioned but then you interact with these pillars and choose deposit this places a book inside you must do this with all four pillars but wait it gets more complicated you can't choose which book goes in which pillar the books will always be deposited in a certain order and the pillars need to be interacted with in a certain order and you don't know this and if you interact with the wrong altar first it will still let you deposit the book but it won't tell you that you've gone wrong thankfully you can take the book back out now the only way that you know that you've put the right book in the right thing is when you hear the little ding sound effect but again nowhere is this mentioned and the order is random for every player so interact with all four pillars until you hear the first ding then the remaining three then two then one and finally interact with the tombstone in the clearing read the sign that pops up tank the boss which appears and finally take all this information back to peony and at this point the game has given up on sound effects and I've given up on trying to figure it out all the quest rewards are now level 30 and I'm level 19 so they are useless I inform Lord Sagan of my Epic Quest and he's like cool I'm busy no you're not you've done literally nothing Lord Sagan your people have suggested genocide twice as solutions to plague and bandits you need to teach people that the solution to things which kill people is not killing everyone preemptively so far I've finished 29 quests and a 13-step Epic Quest which is literally impossible to solve unless you already know what to do and the screen is now flashing please join the battle please please join it God we want you to join the battle so badly go and talk to the battle manager so I find the battle manager and talk and he's all oh my god do you want to join the battle and I'm like yes God damn it I do want to join the battle you've been flashing the warning at me every 10 seconds for the last five minutes I am ready to answer the call of battle let me join and then the game says sorry you're too low level to join the battle then why did you ask me to join my horse has died again this strange swamp guy wants five bits of toad jerky so I get them for him and he says great this is a repeatable quest go and do it again you know what no game I'm not doing this anymore I am done hero plus is an entirely unambitious mess which has been translated purely as a box ticking exercise to say they've got an English game but just because the words are in English doesn't mean it makes any sense the brief moments of absurdist accidental comedy found within are entirely by accident not designed the mechanics are basic and yet somehow still bloated and the progression is too cryptic for all but the most determined of masochists Imagine ordering a Chinese Takeaway and they'll send you an extra box of something might be meat might be veg you don't know it's got a strange source and it's warm so you eat it because you're hungry but no one knows what it is tastes a little bit like everything you've ever had from a Chinese before all rolled into one nothing about it is memorable but you occasionally find a chewy bit you're not sure should really be there so you finish half and put it in the fridge and the next day it's congealed into a strange Cube and you can't be bothered to work out what it was because you're never going to eat it again so you throw it away hero plus is that box so to end the review I will award hero plus unknown container of Chinese Takeaway out of 10. cheers for watching another massive thank you to all the supporters on patreon and twitch and YouTube who keep the channel alive you can support from only one pound a month check the video description for links to the patreon twitch Twitter and our Discord Channel and as always have a great day

Channel: Josh Strife Hayes

Views: 1,150,732

Keywords: mmo podcast, mmo discussion, mmo design, mmorpg youtuber, mmo news

Id: KrZLGnV2luk

Length: 38min 14sec (2294 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 23 2023