We have the luxury of testing Darkness Reborn before it will be released globally this November 18th.
Our first impression on the game was its just another Kritika: Chaos Unleashed release by Gamevil but after we play for long hours, we feel that it is totally different and probably appealing than Kritika.
Go read our review below on Darkness Reborn.
Note: All image you see where taken in-game.
When compared to Kritika, well we can say that Kritika is more vibrant in terms of visuals but Darkness Reborn don't fall behind. It has good graphics but the thing we really love about Darkness Reborn is that its visuals don't burn too much of battery life. Compared to Kritika which drains our battery faster, Darkness Reborn can give you longer hours of playtime while experiencing a good quality graphics.
When it comes to features, Darkness Reborn has a load of it. Starting from the well-known single play campaign wherein you raid dungeons, clear it, get some loot and level up. It is your nomal single player game wherein you exert much time to level up your character.
The difference is that in campaign, there are certain possibilities that you can open a so-called "rift". You got better chances to open rift when you go on hard made in dungeons. Once in the rift, you get to clear mobs for 3 rounds and when you finish it, you can acquire either loot or crafting materials and some gold.
Next to the single play are the main mode features of the game: The boss raid and the PvP. Boss raids lets you go in a 6-main raid to try and kill the world boss. Currently, there's only one boss named Belphegor (that big two-headed dragon). When you killed Belphegor, then you progress to the next level which now, the boss has lots of fire power and more beefy.
And of course, when you finish the Boss Raid, you acquire rare to legendary loots and jewels, depending on how hard the raid you have finished.
And also, there's the PvP which has three modes at the moment- the versus AI, the Individual Rankings, and the custom match. The versus AI pits you against bots in a 3v3 match. You can choose between easy, medium and hard mode, and once you win, you get to acquire Sol (diamonds in the game).
The Individual Rankings is you all out 3v3 brawl with other players and the custom match is the mode wherein you cam invite someone to fight with or against. Also, there is a Guild Ranking match in PvP which will be added in the future wherein Guilds will battle against each other. All these matches in PvP are build for one thing, and that is to gain Sol. Other matches (like individual rankings) can also give you gold or energy.
The PvP matching is good but there's one thing we don't like. In an individual match wherein we are winning, our foes suddenly quit the match and it was declared a draw. We only acquire 2 Battle Points (the one you need to increase to acquire good loot and more Sol in PvP) which is unfair in our part. We think it would be great if we had won the match and get the prices which is right for us. Anyway, it's only our little suggestion and it totally depends to the developer if they do something about it. Nonetheless, the PvP matches are great just make sure that you have a strong internet connection or else.
And last on features, there's the achievement wherein you get to acquire Sol and gold once you finish a certain achievement. There's the workshop also wherei you get to use your crafting materials and have a chance to craft good equips and lastly, the roulette wherein you got one free spin everyday to get gold, loots or Sol.
Now that we're done with features, let's head to your character. At the moment, you can choose either Warrior and Kunoichi. The warrior is basically your tank, while Kunoichi is your assassin or dps class.
Each class has their unique skills and you are given 4 slot to choose between 4 unique active skills that has two branches each. In addition, there's the passive tree also that will let you increase your attack, HP, etc. We don't have much to say about the skills in Darkness Reborn as we think that it's typically Gamevil. Oh yeah, there's something we've missed- the hero skill tree. Currently it's not available but we do hope that it is not the same as the Masteries of Kritika wherein you just add fire power to your current active skills. We hope it is totally different. Fingers crossed!
If there's one feature on the class we really love, that is the detailed stat. On Kritika, there is only defense and offense which we think is a bit boring and sometimes unfair. Just think of this, if you don't spend some cash on getting high dps items, then be sure to always sux on PvP. In Darkness Reborn, it is totally a different story. Each character has some resistant and additional elemental attribute which we think makes up a good character in a MORPG. In addition it will make the game more engaging and addictive as players will try to build their own class in their own way. Let's say you want a fire type Warrior, then you go junt some equips that could increase fire attack. In short, it gives more variety and adds more fun playing your class.
When we sum it up, we can say that Darkness Reborn is not only a good looking game, but a great dungeon crawler MORPG that every social mobile gamer should look forward on playing. There may be some minor lapses in the game like minor crashes and some visual bugs and stability issues but we can't blame it as it is currently on its early stage and we know that Gamevil will be improving it very soon. In addition, we think that Darkness Reborn is another "pay-to-win" scheme by Gamevil but we are really used to it honestly. The developer need to earn some cash for the fair trade of giving us a great game. Anyway, you can absolutely acquire anything just by grinding so no ones complaining.
Darkness Reborn will be available on mobiles this November 18th. We've reportedly recently that it was already out but it was only the SEA version. Also, we thought that it was the final build but now that it's removed on Google Play, we assumed that it was only a beta version. We hope our data won't be erased once the final build comes. Another fingers crossed!