{"id":107628,"date":"2022-08-02T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/?p=107628"},"modified":"2022-08-12T05:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:16:11","slug":"noahs-heart-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/post\/107628\/noahs-heart-review","title":{"rendered":"Noah’s Heart Review – Adventure on a Planetwide Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wanting to get into MMORPGs or just to scratch an itch, Noah’s Heart<\/a><\/strong> may be right up your alley with just how much content it offers. Jointly developed by both Archosaur Games and Famous Heart Limited, Noah’s Heart is the developer’s second shot at the MMORPG genre, and very much share’s some aspects of its gameplay and overall flashy presentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noah’s Heart’s largest appeal was marketed from the get-go, boasting an entire planet full of content to be explored upon launch with as much content to go around the globe. Upon playing the game, however, lifts up some of its more unflattering aspects that come with the game’s immensely large scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be a hands-on first impression of Noah’s Heart at the point where I have reached adventurer rank 41 with 3 chapters of the main story completed. Screenshots and footage are being captured on the PC version for the most part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u258d<\/span><\/strong>Create Your Avatar with A Wide Range of Options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the tradition of most MMORPGs, players will be able to create their own avatar to embark on the adventure in Noah’s Heart. If you have played the other game titles by Archosaur Games, you will soon find that the avatar creation process is similar to Dragon Raja and the more recent release Life Makeover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your options in Noah’s Heart are far and wide as the choices you’re given allow for fine-tuning starting with the facial features you’d like on your avatar. Other than these, players are also given more detailed options such as their character’s make-up, hairstyle, body size as well as skin tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along with deciding on how to look the part in the overworld, Noah’s Heart also gives you the choice of how you’d like to sound. After going through the character editor, you can preview some emotes as well as listen to audio samples for your avatar with the female avatar having 2 options while the male characters are given 3. Each voice line is recorded by a prominent voice actor for the Japanese voice options so be sure to check them out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After setting up your avatar’s looks, you are given the choice of what weapon you would like to main. Unlike its contemporary, Noah’s Heart uses a distinct system in which your “class” is determined by the weapon you currently have equipped. Your options are listed out and you are also given a quick summary of what to expect out of each weapon in the form of a video preview as well as a chart specifying what they individually excel at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u258d<\/span><\/strong>An Engaging Fully-Voiced Story Experience <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Upon finalizing your character, you are immediately taken to a cutscene to start your adventure and tutorial. Here you are taken through the basics of combat and are introduced to some of the main mechanics as well as starting off the plot with the core cast of your story-wise adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After being thrown out into a tutorial dungeon by a strange dimensional character Ave, you are set to follow a story quest of sorts to skim through the basic mechanics of the game as well as the context of the world around you and the people you meet. Whether it’s to carry the tutorial along quicker to make rerolling simpler or not, the story beats in the early parts of Noah’s Heart suffer from mood\/tonal whiplash with your avatar zipping through situations one after the other with seemingly zero punctuation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the game does work, it presents a full cast of characters all with unique voice acting. With all main chapter dialogues dubbed and with all phantom units pulled from the gacha having voice acting regardless of their rarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game currently features VA options for both English and Japanese, though oddly enough the English voice actor credits are missing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u258d<\/span><\/strong>If a Continent is not Enough, What about Exploring An Entire Planet? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As it’s biggest selling point, Noah’s Heart allows players to explore the entire globe of the planet. The planet in question, aptly called Noah, is filled to the brim with content from solving puzzle challenges and battling overworld enemies to finding treasure chests. The game offers all of these accompanied together by a wide array of biomes ranging from grassy plains, arid deserts to arctic icecaps. Whether it is for collecting materials for your guild to craft or to open up the map to see just what’s up ahead, exploration on the planet of Noah is filled to the brim with wonders just waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To accompany your exploration, you are given an array of tools to traverse the land of Noah, from a simple steed to a jetpack that allows you to soar high and a grappling hook that allows you to rappel to roofs and treetops. One of the main things you’ll be exploring in Noah’s Heart is to unlock fast travel points scattered all around, where you must tackle a platforming puzzle of sorts that often puts you to the challenge of making aerial maneuvers utilizing these gadgets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keeping along the theme of making a giant yet succinct overworld, the planet of Noah also utilizes public transport in the form of steam trains and ships. Dotted throughout the continents, these even go so far as to follow a timetable where they come and go through each different train stop or port, heading over to different locales. Though acting essentially as another way to fast travel between long distances, the addition of such touches to a vast open world like Noah is a welcoming piece of world-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Noah’s Heart also features an Auto-Pilot mode of sorts, where tapping on the quest objectives in its tab will let the game assume control of your character and take you to where ever you need to be, whether it is through treacherous terrains or beyond fast travel points! Auto-Pilot mode also exists in dungeon runs as well, with the game featuring Combat Assist Mode where your avatar will run through a dungeon and automatically fight off combatants along the way for a more hands-off experience, ideal for grinding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The map screen and by extension the navigation system in Noah’s Heart is much more generous to completionists determined to pick up every treasure chest and puzzle on their journey. All undiscovered treasure chests and interactable objects are instantly marked on the mini-map so long as you have an actual visual of the place you’re standing in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u258d<\/span><\/strong>Real-Time Combat Against Greater Foes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Combat in Noah’s Heart is much in the veins of games like Tower of Fantasy or Genshin Impact, opting for actions with a few spins on the control methods. In battle, your avatar can utilize weapon skills and the summoned Phantom skills varying your strategy in taking down foes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Utilize your light and phantom skills along with your allies to take down the boss’ HP, then use your strong attacks to dwindle their rage meter. Even the grappling hook has its use in combat, allowing swift escapes from deadly blows as well as an instant gap closer for an opportune strike. Building a team up for specific needs becomes a necessity solely from how many different situations the game can throw at you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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