{"id":16183,"date":"2010-03-28T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2010-03-28T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:52:09","slug":"zenonia%e2%84%a2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/zenonia%e2%84%a2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ZENONIA 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gameplay [rating:4.5\/5]
\nControls [rating:4.5\/5]
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Set to be released worldwide at midnight tonight (March 28th) and the long-awaited sequel to the original and multi award-winning ZENONIA<\/a> action adventure, ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2: The Lost Memories is a classic action RPG with retro visuals. RazorianFly has managed to secure a copy before its worldwide release, and we can now give you our first impressions! <\/p>\n

Boasting 152 different and varying maps and 98 quests to complete, the game first starts out by you choosing which class of character you want to play as. There are four classes to choose from within the game, these include:<\/p>\n

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Paladin<\/strong> – Melee class, this class of character has a high defense power and uses a holy sword and shield to destroy impending evil<\/p>\n

Shooter<\/strong> – Long range class, this class of character performs swift attacks and high evasion skills with the longest firing range<\/p>\n

Magician<\/strong> – Long range class, this class of character uses mystical effects to destroy enemies<\/p>\n

Warrior<\/strong> – Melee class, this class of character instantly explodes internal energy to suppress the enemy<\/p>\n

Once you’ve chosen which class you’d like to play as, and fully customized your character, the game then takes you through a fairly lengthy tutorial showing you just how to use your chosen classes powers. Once you’ve completed the tutorial which involves watching the story unfold as well as listening and watching the various on-screen tips, you’re thrown into the game to fend for yourself. <\/p>\n

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The game works off two control methods. The first is a directional pad and is found on the left of the screen. This acts just as you would expect it to, with each button moving the character left, right, up and down. The second control method is your fire and pick-up button. By default, the button in the bottom right of the screen will act as your casting button, casting spells and powers you have gained. As you progress through the game, your enemies will often drop objects for you to pick up. Standing over the object until its on-screen tip appears and then tapping this cast button will put the item in your inventory for future reference or use. During playing the game we not only found these controls to be accurate and responsive, but also well spaced .. avoiding the likelihood of hitting the wrong button accidentally.<\/p>\n

The in-game screen consists of the usual suspects. Towards the bottom of the screen you’ll find some stats, including your HP (health), SP (food) and EXP (experience). To the left of these you’ll also find a picture of your current class of character, as well as the level you are currently at. Your character will level up as you manage to complete more levels and kill more enemies. You’ll be able to see this leveling up in a visual way too, when a strand of light with the words ‘Level Up’ encapsulates your character on-screen. In the top right hand corner you’ll find a ‘Satchel’ icon. Taping this will throw you into the game’s inventory skill and equipment screens. Here you can choose which item you wish to use, see the skills you have gained during playing the game and see more details of quests you are still required to complete or ones you have already completed. Finally, in the top left corner you’ll see a small indication of your location within the game. Tapping on this icon will bring up a full-screen version of the map, indicating both your progress and current in-game location.<\/p>\n

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In-game, your enemies move around in their own little spaces. As you breach that space they will move into ‘attack’ mode, following you until you kill them. You can prevent enemies from following you by attacking and killing them, or simply moving over a moat of water. Remember though, the aim is to kill as many enemies as possible, in order to level up a gain skill points. As you start to attack your enemies their HP bar will appear above them letting you know how much life they have left before they die. <\/p>\n

If by way of unfortunate luck you end up being the one landing on the floor, you have two options to revive yourself. The first is to use ‘Origin of Life’. This revive method causes no penalty although can only be used a certain amount of times. If this method runs out, revival can be bought for a whopping 3000 gold. The second option to revive yourself is to use the ‘Penalty’ revival. This method reduces your current EXP level by 10%, your gold level by 5% and your equipment durability by 10%.- not the ideal method for revival, but there if you did need it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Visually, ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2 doesn’t disappoint. Managing to keep both that unique and pleasing retro character and visual environment style we seemed to fall in love with the first time, with ZENONIA. The sheer amount of attention to detail is apparent in almost every aspect of the game. From the style of the characters themselves, to their surrounding environments. The polish drips off this title. A visual style which, in our opinion, is sure to keep any hardcore classic RPG fan happy for hours.<\/p>\n

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Network<\/h3>\n

From the ‘Option’ menu you can access the networking aspect of ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2. While there are no multi-player options to play other people around the world, the game does offer the ability to create an online account with the GAMEVIL servers, to store your high scores. What was even more interesting about this aspect of the game, is the game allow allows you to register a new ‘Group’. This presumably allows for you to team up with other ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2 players, and submit your scores collectively, as a group. <\/p>\n

We have to admit this part of the game didn’t seem to working all that well, on our initial testing, however due to the game not being available on the App Store for another few hours, it was hardly surprising. GAMEVIL were probably just adding the final touches to the server.<\/p>\n

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Overall, after our short time with the title we can confidently say ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2 is a very respectable sequel to the much loved original. While we would have liked to see multi-player ability, with its quirky retro graphics and visual environments, slick and fluid control systems, killer storyline and mystical soundtrack to match, ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2 is, at least in our eyes, one the best RPG-based gaming experiences currently available on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Set to be released worldwide at midnight tonight (March 28th) and the long-awaited sequel to the original and multi award-winning ZENONIA action adventure, ZENONIA\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2: The Lost Memories is a classic action RPG with retro visuals. <\/p>\n

RazorianFly has managed to secure a copy before its worldwide release, and we can now give you our first impressions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2143,2127,16,17],"tags":[3500,876,12,3501,503,512,1349,1904,2228],"class_list":["post-16183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-first-look-blog","category-games-app-store","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-app-store","tag-first-look","tag-games","tag-iphone","tag-razorianfly","tag-release","tag-review","tag-rpg","tag-zenonia-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16243,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}