Born Again: Unveiling Predatory Mechanics of the New Roguelike MMORPG

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Transcript

00:00Welcome on back to Slaugnargs Nerd Cave.

00:02Today we're going to be checking out a

00:04game called Born Again.

00:06This is a MMORPG with a permadeath

00:09roguelite flare to it.

00:11Game reminds me a lot

00:12of Realm of the Mad God.

00:14I don't know if you

00:14guys have ever played that.

00:16Essentially what you have here is an

00:17MMORPG where you're going to run out

00:19on missions, collect loot, try to stay

00:21alive as long as you can.

00:22And then when you die, you start on over.

00:25I love roguelites and permadeath games,

00:26but I've always kind of bounced

00:28off these MMORPG with the roguelite

00:30feelings to them just because they're

00:32kind of contradictory.

00:34But with that being said, I went through

00:35and I played for about a half hour

00:37already, ran through one character and

00:38subsequently died because I bit off

00:40more than I could chew.

00:41So I figured we'd jump back in now that I

00:43have an understanding of how this works

00:44and show you what the

00:45gameplay is all about.

00:46The one point of contention is you can

00:48only start as a warrior.

00:50You have to unlock these meta currency

00:52things up here on the right hand side

00:54that kind of look like

00:55a sliced open tomato.

00:56And you have to collect 50 of those to

00:58unlock your next character.

01:00Now I died one time and upon death, I

01:02unlocked eight of those.

01:03So figure that's probably going to take

01:05about five runs to

01:06unlock a new character.

01:08Well, let's jump in

01:08with our warrior level one.

01:10All right, here we are in the world.

01:11So this is like the town hub, right?

01:12This is where we all come in.

01:13I have my gear down right

01:14here because you have storage.

01:17Where you was a guy drop.

01:19Check that out.

01:21You have a storage, but you cannot sell

01:23anything except to other players.

01:24So I'll show you. Here's a bank.

01:27Maybe doesn't want to open open earlier

01:29when I played. Interesting.

01:33There we go. That one open.

01:35So here are a few things

01:35I collected on other runs.

01:37Once you want to go back to town, you

01:38just press B and you can come back here

01:39and drop in your goodies with this guy

01:41drop of city and sword 30 to 40 damage.

01:44Man, that guy hooked it up.

01:45So we're going to take that.

01:47So I was just using a

01:48sword that was 20 to 30.

01:50So boom. Thanks, random guy.

01:52I appreciate it.

01:52So now we know where

01:53we can store our goods.

01:55Here is our weapon slot

01:57right down here on spacebar.

01:58You hold down space and you do attack.

02:01Right. Trigger also

02:01does a smaller attack.

02:03Q can throw out some bombs for the

02:05warrior class and E allows me to jump.

02:07Normally, there's multiple little pillars

02:09you can go through here,

02:09but it looks like the dragon pillar is

02:11the only one available.

02:12So to go and do combat, this is how you

02:14enter the world of combat.

02:16Here we are in the realm of dragons.

02:18Now we're level one because

02:19we died. We start all over.

02:22This is the starting gear,

02:22minus what I picked up before.

02:24Now you can see there's

02:25this square icon down here.

02:27This is where we're going to want to go

02:28because that's like a boss to fight.

02:30That's the whole gameplay.

02:32You level up.

02:33You kill some people on the way to level

02:35up a little bit more

02:36and you try to take down the bosses.

02:39The bosses will give you gear drops.

02:41That's when I've seen gear drops.

02:42OK. And this guy dropped me an apple.

02:45Pick up the apple.

02:45That's going to heal me.

02:47You see, these are all

02:48other players running around.

02:50You definitely want to

02:51stick with the other players.

02:55And you see how this quest

02:55keep changing pretty quickly?

02:57It's because the other players are

02:58killing the enemies

02:59before we can get there.

03:00So let's go down this way. We'll work

03:01towards the stone golem.

03:03We'll use our E to jump down

03:04because we fancy like that.

03:05Yes, at lower levels, you're definitely

03:07going to want to stick

03:08with some other characters.

03:09OK, here's a boss.

03:10Here's our first boss fight.

03:11So I threw out my little.

03:15Well, that seems to be hurting them.

03:16Maybe I'm too weak.

03:18Threw out my little grenade.

03:21Let's see.

03:23Keep saying new quest.

03:25Is this glitched out?

03:26These guys are invisible.

03:29Well, they leveled up.

03:31Maybe the game is

03:32glitching out on me right now.

03:35I feel like the game is glitching on me.

03:37All right, let's go somewhere else.

03:38We can jump over things like that.

03:42I died right here in the desert last

03:43time, so let's hope it

03:43doesn't happen again.

03:45Oh, now this thing's taking damage.

03:47Let's get back over here.

03:48Oh, that's done.

03:49OK, we're hitting them, though. We're

03:50hitting them, though.

03:52All right, we got to.

03:53So now look, we're already level three.

03:54That's how you pick up new gear, right?

03:56You kill a boss, they drop them.

03:57You click on it over here.

03:59I cannot use this.

04:00This is unusable by my class.

04:02So I'll hold on to this

04:02and put it back in my bank.

04:04It's a very

04:04straightforward gameplay loop.

04:05You run around, you kill things, collect

04:07gear, try not to die.

04:09Because when you die,

04:10you start on over again.

04:11Let's talk a little bit about the visual

04:12styling of the game.

04:13I think that's pretty apparent.

04:15This is a strong

04:16pixelated looking graphic.

04:18Oh, crap, we're getting hit on right now.

04:20I like it. It's cool.

04:21Keeps it simple.

04:23Keeps it from getting too overwhelming.

04:24I'm getting mobbed on right here.

04:26I'm getting mobbed.

04:27Let's jump back down here.

04:29I like the little pixelated

04:30styling they got going on.

04:32I definitely need a teammate.

04:34It fits right in with the

04:36game realms of the mad god.

04:37Like I said, they all these rogue light

04:40and M.O. RPGs tend to go

04:42for this graphical styling.

04:44Combats also not something to

04:46really like write home about.

04:47It's serviceable, but it's

04:49not like impressive, really.

04:51Now, what had happened when

04:54the last run is when we killed

04:55a certain amount of people in this area,

04:57I got teleported to like this huge boss

04:59room and almost died.

05:01So I'm not sure what

05:01exactly triggers that mechanic,

05:03but let's go back over here.

05:05Jump up over here.

05:06We're going to get the same boss again.

05:08Let's first kill this guy.

05:11OK, we'll throw our grenade down.

05:13He's free. Got

05:14someone else coming in here.

05:16I've picked up another cherry right here.

05:19Yeah, so the only class you

05:20can play right off the bat,

05:21it looks like that

05:22guy can throw out traps.

05:23The only class you can play

05:23right off the bat is the warrior.

05:26So I wish that wasn't the case.

05:27Looks like I have a

05:28Santa hat or something.

05:30And I've seen people

05:31complain about it in the steam.

05:32I'll throw up a

05:33little steam review of it.

05:34But people are complaining

05:35about how it takes so much time

05:37to collect enough of the meta currency to

05:39be able to unlock a new class.

05:41The devs said they're working on that.

05:43So we'll see what comes of that.

05:46They said the reason that it takes so

05:47long is they tested it

05:48at level 30 characters without

05:51considering the impact

05:51that would have on brand new characters,

05:54which seems kind of short sighted.

05:56If you ask me.

05:57Another complaint.

05:58Well, let's get out of there.

05:59Oh, I jumped right into it.

06:00That's not what you want.

06:01Another complaint I saw, which I think is

06:03a very valid complaint.

06:05All this pick up some stuff here

06:07is that they have cosmetic items you can

06:09buy for real world money.

06:11Now, that's not too

06:12unusual for MMOs, right?

06:14That doesn't surprise any of us.

06:16But here's the thing.

06:17The cosmetic items that

06:18you buy drop on death.

06:21These guys are fucking powerful.

06:23They're taking everybody up.

06:24Yeah, cosmetic items

06:25you buy drop on death.

06:27So say you spend a dollar on a hat and

06:30your character dies.

06:31Well, you're out that hat.

06:33You'd have to go buy a brand new hat.

06:35The devs also had a response to this and

06:37they said, oh, well,

06:38they're trying to create that connection

06:40to your character and your gear.

06:42Yada, yada, yada.

06:44We'll have to look into changing that up.

06:47So that's very short sighted.

06:49And I think probably the main reason they

06:51did that is to get

06:51people to spend more money.

06:53I don't think that

06:54was a surprise to them.

06:55I think they knew right

06:56away what they were doing.

06:57And they just wanted to see

06:58if they could get away with it.

07:00But they can't. So

07:01hopefully they'll adjust that.

07:03I'll put both of those reviews I just

07:04mentioned on the screen

07:06so you guys can take a look at it

07:07yourselves with the bad

07:08reviews out of the way.

07:10Let's see if I can't get down here.

07:11The stone column. Let me get in there

07:12before they kill them.

07:13The bad reviews out of the way.

07:14What do I like about this game so far?

07:16So I do like the graphical styling of it.

07:17I'm kind of a sucker for these.

07:19You guys know I love roguelites.

07:20Let's try to get a hit off on this guy.

07:24Again, the combat's like

07:25nothing's too impressive.

07:26People don't play these kind of games

07:27because the combat super fun.

07:29Another drop. That's good.

07:31Too bad I'm only getting

07:31things not for my class.

07:33So that sucks.

07:34But I do like the general game loop.

07:36I do like the roguelike element of kind

07:37of that tenseness of when you die.

07:39It's like a Diablo 2 hardcore run, right?

07:41Like when you die,

07:42you're all you're done.

07:43You have to start a new character.

07:46The proof in the pudding

07:47for this will be, though.

07:48Oh, these guys hit hard.

07:50Good thing I leveled up

07:50there and got some more health.

07:53How fun that loop continues to be.

07:55This is my second time through.

07:58And I haven't seen anything new.

08:00I don't think you're

08:00going to see anything new.

08:01I think it's all going to

08:02be about the same. Oh, shit.

08:05This level is hard.

08:06Oh, I'm going to die right here.

08:08I'm going to see.

08:09OK, so they were dead.

08:10We're dead. It's really quick.

08:11You can die really easily.

08:13Now, I my first character,

08:14there was a different gate open

08:16and I was able to go through that gate

08:17and it seemed like an easier area.

08:20But this is only

08:20available area to me right now.

08:22Well, let me write you can leave a death

08:23message, which is always fun.

08:25Well, we'll just write subscribe.

08:29Subscribe YouTube.

08:31There we go. Now we've left

08:32a death message on my body.

08:34And then you can see.

08:34So from that whole run, I got two of

08:36these tomato looking properties

08:38that we can use to unlock new characters.

08:40But again, I need 50. So now I have 10.

08:42So I have to do a bunch more of these

08:43runs to try out a new character.

08:45I do like how they show you a little

08:46replay down here in the left hand corner

08:48of how you died.

08:50That's a nice little touch.

08:51But all this gear I had right here, the

08:53sword that guy gave me, that's gone.

08:55This is all gone now.

08:56So now I need to start over.

08:58So we'll show you what that looks like.

08:59So after our death, we're

09:00brought back to the screen.

09:01Now, as you can see, I can create this

09:03warrior character right here.

09:04This is going to be the starting gear

09:05that they just give you.

09:06I only have 10 of these.

09:08When I click on here to unlock the next

09:09cheapest class, more expensive.

09:11As you go up the class, which I imagine

09:13means they're better.

09:14But if I wanted to get

09:14the next class in line,

09:16that's going to cost me

09:1650 of these currencies.

09:18So right now I'm at 10, but about 40

09:20minutes into the game now at this point,

09:2150 minutes in the game at this point.

09:23So I could see that being a

09:24really sore spot for people

09:26who don't want to play a warrior.

09:27Not everybody wants to

09:28play a warrior in an MMO.

09:30So I think they should definitely open

09:31this up and let you choose

09:32between at least three

09:33classes to start with.

09:34Maybe a warrior, a

09:36ranger and a wizard. Right.

09:38Give those three basic classes, because

09:40that's going to push

09:40a lot of people away.

09:41A lot of people aren't going to want to

09:42play the warrior for five hours

09:44just to play the next class that they

09:46then have to grind for for five hours.

09:48I will go. We'll jump back

09:49in, create another character.

09:50We'll see how far we

09:51can get this time shows.

09:52There's 166 people playing right now.

09:53So that's not too bad for

09:55a game that just came out.

09:56This came out on December 15th, and it is

09:59sitting at mostly positive.

10:01See, now we have two gates.

10:02So I bet Dragon is like

10:03one of the harder gates.

10:04The gate I originally went through was

10:06right here and it was called Snake.

10:07Let's see if we have

10:08anything in our inventory

10:10that might help us out here a little bit.

10:12Anything better than our starting gear.

10:13That bank can't be used.

10:14I think there's too many people using a

10:16bank that you can't access it.

10:20What's going on here? Maybe the servers

10:21are just glitched out.

10:25There we go. I got in here.

10:25All right. Anything

10:26better than what I have.

10:27So I can't use this.

10:29I can use that. That's 20

10:29to 30 and that's 18 to 28.

10:32So let's switch out our

10:33bronze sword with our rusty sword.

10:35I can't use these brontiorukens and I

10:37can't use a bronze armor.

10:38So I can't use anything I

10:40have in here that I picked up

10:41because I don't have

10:41access to any of those classes.

10:43I also have this finesse crystal.

10:45No idea what that does.

10:46I'm just keeping it in there.

10:47So you can't sell any of the items you

10:48pick up either, which

10:49is kind of annoying.

10:50If you could pick up

10:51and sell some of the items

10:52you're not going to use for this currency

10:53to unlock new characters,

10:56then I think that would be

10:56fine having unlocked at 50.

10:58But you can't do that.

10:59So again, that whole mechanic

10:59just kind of like hamstrings

11:01the whole new player experience.

11:03And I think the last thing you want to do

11:05when you come into one of these games is

11:06feel like you're being hamstrained

11:08immediately. It's a MMO.

11:09It's a MMORPG.

11:11You want to be able to create your

11:12character and

11:13identify what your character

11:14and they've completely

11:15taken that away from you.

11:16So when you load in a level

11:17two, you have these coachmen.

11:18So I could travel to any place that I

11:20wanted on this starting island here.

11:22But we'll just go.

11:23We'll go on our ground.

11:24We'll go foot level.

11:26See what we can find.

11:27I think being teamed up

11:28is definitely a good call.

11:29I don't have anybody to play with.

11:31My only other friend that might even play

11:32this with me only plays well.

11:35I can't get him to play

11:35anything else but well.

11:36So we're just going to

11:37be grinding right here.

11:39You see, like it's not an easy game.

11:42These beginning little slime monsters are

11:44doing a ton of damage.

11:46Like I could easily die right here.

11:49I made it to level 11, I

11:51think, was the highest run I had.

11:53We'll try to level up here

11:55killing these slime monsters.

11:58You also can't like invest any of your

11:59skill points, right?

12:01So that kind of takes away from the RPG

12:03elements of the MMORPG.

12:05But I'm not sure if these roguelite style

12:07games really offer that.

12:08I'm not sure if Realm of the Mad God or

12:10any of the other variations

12:12of these roguelite MMOs.

12:15Really highlight that or offer that.

12:19We got that guy good.

12:20That was a good hit.

12:21See, like I said, right click

12:22is going to be my basic attack.

12:23That's what we're doing right now.

12:26And then spacebar does

12:26like my super powerful attack.

12:29OK, we got a lot of guys right here.

12:30Let's drop a bomb on him and then we'll

12:32hit him with our big attack.

12:34Already taking a lot of hits.

12:36I think I just leveled up right there,

12:37and that's the reason I didn't die.

12:40We're just going to run around in

12:41circles, try to kite some fools,

12:44give ourselves a little protection.

12:47Now it feels kind of wonky to

12:50obviously like the sound effects aren't

12:51really great either.

12:53We got to get out of here.

12:54It's really easy to die in this game.

12:56Roguelites are

12:57supposed to be challenging,

12:58but with how restrictive

12:59the choosing the classes are,

13:02it feels a little bit worse

13:03in this game than other ones.

13:05How's a good hit, though?

13:08Are we going to get this big bastard?

13:11He dropped another cherry,

13:12picked that up for heels.

13:15Yeah, he's he is

13:16hard. We got him, though.

13:18We got him. OK, we're

13:18almost at level four.

13:20And a new quest for a boss up here.

13:22So let's start wandering out that way.

13:24I want to try to find some gear.

13:25Feel like you primarily

13:26only get gear from the bosses.

13:28I don't think I recall getting gear from

13:29anybody that's not a boss.

13:30We might die right here,

13:33though. That guy hits hard.

13:35I got hits hard and I

13:36don't have any homies around.

13:38Let's try to kite around.

13:40We'll wait for somebody else

13:41to come in and help us out.

13:42Now we'll go back in a little bit.

13:43We'll drop another bomb on him.

13:45OK, I missed. Good. Love to see it.

13:49And then you just get

13:50mob by all these tools.

13:51Oh, shit. See, I'm already dead again.

13:52This game is definitely like

13:53going to be super frustrating.

13:56Let's see. I got to

13:56level three that time.

13:58How much of the meta

13:58currency did I get here?

14:00I got zero. So I got zero.

14:02So for that run, I made

14:03absolutely no progress. Right.

14:05That's going to be

14:06frustrating for a lot of people.

14:07Should definitely be able to, like I

14:09said, have access to

14:10at least three classes

14:11to play around with because I do have

14:12some armor and stuff

14:14that I picked up on my last run where I

14:15didn't die immediately.

14:17And that's just sitting there in my in my

14:20bank and I can't use it.

14:22Easier starting areas.

14:23Those have disappeared.

14:24Now I'm forced to go over here, Panda

14:26Land, where it's going

14:27to be a little tougher.

14:28And then I'm not going to be making very

14:30good progress at all

14:31because I'm going to

14:31get wiped right away.

14:32So I want to like this game because I do

14:35love roguelites and I do love MMOs.

14:39But how they have the new player

14:40experience set up is a

14:42little disheartening.

14:45I would love to come in here

14:47with a range attack as a mage.

14:50That would feel great. Or even as an

14:52archer or something,

14:53you know, some different kind of

14:54playstyle and not just keep dying

14:57the same way over and over again because

14:59I don't have the gear

15:00to tank any of the hits.

15:02And if I try to go get

15:03the gear to tank the hits,

15:05I just get killed because

15:06the bosses are too powerful.

15:08And we use a regular big boy attack.

15:11Ooh, see, look, I'm

15:11already almost dead now.

15:13I fought one mob. I

15:14got a cherry over here.

15:15I can try to go get.

15:17Another cherry right there.

15:18I will take that

15:19cherry. We'll eat that cherry.

15:21We'll throw out another bomb.

15:23That was a good hit.

15:24We got a good hit there.

15:25OK, let's pick up this other cherry.

15:28Also wish so you have to click on that.

15:30Each anything you want to pick up, you

15:32got to click right there.

15:33I feel like there

15:34should be a hotkey for that.

15:35Give me like F or something where I can

15:37easily pick up items

15:39rather than having to reach across the

15:40screen to try to get that done.

15:43Sounds like we got somebody

15:44fighting a boss over here.

15:45Let's see if we can get in on this and we

15:47can ride on his curtails.

15:50Oh, that hurt.

15:52All right. OK, I healed up.

15:56Throw a bomb in there for him.

15:58OK, well, I killed one slime with that.

16:01I can't see him

16:02because he's in the trees.

16:03So that's not super helpful.

16:04Let's see what we can do.

16:06OK, I did something, but I almost died.

16:08I did something, but I

16:09almost said I'm out of healing.

16:11So hopefully something

16:13magical just happens.

16:14It looks like he's almost got this guy.

16:16Oh, back up.

16:19There we go. OK, so something dropped.

16:20What do we get?

16:22Oh, I'm going to die

16:23trying to pick up loot.

16:24Knock it out, bro.

16:26Let me pick up this and I'll heal it.

16:29OK, so we got one boss down.

16:31Let's see what a job for us

16:32after we kill some enemies here.

16:34Now we did hit level three.

16:36So that's good.

16:37This guy's getting kind of bombed on.

16:39Let me help him out.

16:40Let me help him out.

16:42Teamwork is dream work.

16:43OK, now we hit level four and there's

16:44another boss to go after.

16:45But let's see what we got here.

16:46We got the blessing of the toad.

16:47He'll heal after killing enemies

16:49furthering your survival capabilities.

16:52Support on enemy kill.

16:53He'll double click to use.

16:56OK, so that goes up here on like my

16:57helmet thing, right?

16:59So that's cool.

16:59They do have cool

17:00little abilities to pick up.

17:02It's just getting them can be

17:04frustrating as a new character.

17:07And then when you die, obviously, it's

17:08frustrating to lose good abilities.

17:10But that's all the nature of a roguelite.

17:12So I'm not even mad about losing the

17:15stuff I'm collecting.

17:16I play Roguelites all the time and I

17:19understand that that's fine.

17:21But when you have the MMO

17:22aspect kind of put into it,

17:25I feel like you want to give people the

17:26ability to at least grind

17:28this stuff on the classes

17:29they actually want to play.

17:31I like melee classes, but if

17:33I didn't like melee classes,

17:35this would be absolutely awful.

17:37This would be a terrible experience

17:38because I'd be forced playing a class.

17:40I have no interest in

17:41playing for like 10 hours

17:44just to get a class

17:45that I might enjoy playing.

17:47Forgot to equip any of these.

17:49Amulet of dexterity.

17:50We'll put that amulet of dexterity on.

17:53And then I have a bunch of stuff that I

17:54can't use by this class, right?

17:56So you kill enemies, feels good.

18:00And then you pick up loot and then you

18:02can't even use that loot.

18:05And then if you do

18:06manage to get it back to town.

18:09Which is pretty easy to do, right?

18:11You just have to press.

18:12Well, that was a good hit.

18:13You just have to press B and you'll

18:15teleport back to town.

18:17We got another we got a bow.

18:18See, another thing I can't even use.

18:20And I almost died right

18:21there picking that up.

18:21So you go back to town and the bank

18:23itself only has like six

18:24slots to store things in.

18:26So it really restricts you.

18:27And then, of course, you can get more

18:28slots if you give them real money.

18:31So between the real the

18:34limited inventory spots,

18:36the ability not to choose a character you

18:38want to play right off the bat

18:39unless you grind a

18:40bunch or spend real money.

18:43And the fact that they sell cosmetics

18:45that you lose on death

18:47for real money makes me feel like this

18:49could potentially be a

18:51money grab of a game.

18:53That's just trying to play off the

18:54curtails of Realm of the Mad God.

18:57So I would go into this game definitely

18:59with some, you know, be open minded.

19:02But I wouldn't spend any

19:04money on this game right now.

19:06I'm just telling you, I would not spend

19:07any money on this game

19:08until they figure out

19:10a less predatory model.

19:15And what do we get here?

19:16We got some shoes for for boots.

19:17And it's for something.

19:18What does that actually do?

19:20I think it just gives me a

19:20little bit more protection.

19:22And I got a mud bomb.

19:23Can I use the mud bomb?

19:24I can use the mud bomb and that gives me

19:26slightly more damage,

19:27but the same radius.

19:28But it is slightly better.

19:29So I'll take that. I'm OK with that.

19:32See what let's see if it

19:33has a different animation.

19:35Yeah, it does. OK, at least it has a

19:37different animation.

19:38Yeah, there's a few warning

19:39signs here for sure, as far as

19:42how they are planning

19:43to monetize the game.

19:45I've gotten past like

19:45being bitchy about cosmetics.

19:48I used to hate any game that

19:50would have cosmetics for sale.

19:52It always just

19:52irritated the shit out of me.

19:54I felt like you should

19:55have to just collect them.

19:56But for people who do like to buy Cosmo

19:59and I don't buy cosmetics,

20:01but for people who do like to buy

20:02cosmetics, having that cosmetic loss

20:05on your death is really shitty.

20:08It's a shitty feeling for the player, and

20:09it's honestly a shitty move

20:11from the dev team for them to

20:13say like, oh, we didn't think

20:15that would upset you guys.

20:16We figured you just like.

20:18Be like, yeah, I was really

20:20attached to that character.

20:21Oh, well, putting the

20:22loss of cosmetic items

20:23on the permadeath nature of the game is a

20:26cop out, in my opinion.

20:31We'll keep going through here.

20:31We did. So it does look

20:32like you can get drops not from

20:35targeted bosses, but just

20:37any kind of like larger enemy.

20:39So that's cool. I like that.

20:41Let's kill this guy so I

20:42can kind of check my gear.

20:45So I'm going over there.

20:47What did I pick up?

20:48I got a tiny amulet of defense versus my

20:51tiny amulet of dexterity.

20:53I think for the warrior class, the

20:54defense will be better.

20:56And we got tadpole robes, three defense.

20:58This gives four defense. So where are the

21:00tadpole robes robes?

21:01Another positive I will say

21:03about this game is even though

21:04it's not super detailed, it does appear

21:06that your different weapons

21:07and your different robes does change the

21:09cosmetic of your character.

21:11So I do appreciate

21:12that. It's not all bad.

21:13There's just like things to keep an eye

21:16on any time you're playing a new game.

21:19I don't know anything

21:20about the devs here.

21:21Who knows what their

21:22intentions are, right?

21:23There are definitely some questionable

21:25choices being made by the dev team.

21:28But I do I am a big fan of

21:31it showing you the cosmetics.

21:32OK, we got another thing that I can't use

21:34support going for the party.

21:36OK, looks like they got some cool

21:38itemization going on,

21:40kind of like Diablo like

21:41itemization, but it's just too bad.

21:45I probably won't get to see

21:46any of that for like 50 hours

21:49until I unlock new characters, because it

21:51seems like all the cool itemization

21:53is on characters

21:56that you have to unlock

21:57way down that tree. Right.

21:59So the first character

22:01unlock is an assassin.

22:02And that costs 50 of these tomatoes.

22:06I don't know what they are, actually, but

22:07they look like tomatoes.

22:09That costs 50 of these

22:10tomatoes. Next one costs 150.

22:13So as you can imagine, it's going to be

22:14exponentially more of an investment

22:15each time you want to

22:16play a new character.

22:17That plan, I'm putting a little bit more

22:18time into this game,

22:20seeing kind of where it

22:22falls on the predatory market.

22:24We got a lot going on here.

22:26We're level six now,

22:27so we've been surviving.

22:29Been surviving that defense might have

22:30helped us out a little bit.

22:31I feel like we're taking less damage.

22:33Again, there's definitely like a market

22:34for this type of game.

22:35This is not going to be

22:35everybody's flavor of gameplay,

22:38not only due to the roguelike elements of

22:40it, but also due to the graphics.

22:42Some people are going to graphically see

22:43this and just say like, absolutely.

22:44No way. I don't mind pixel graphics.

22:47I mind predatory gameplay

22:48mechanics. That's what I mind.

22:50I don't care how good

22:51or bad your game looks.

22:52If you have predatory gameplay mechanics

22:54mechanics, like I'm going to call it out.

22:58This guy is taking he's a

22:59he's a fucking tank man.

23:03We're going to try to get him, though.

23:04It's the last thing I do here. We're

23:05going to try to get this guy.

23:07When I first ran through, I don't know if

23:08there's just less

23:09people playing right now,

23:11but on my first play through before I

23:12decided to record a video for this game,

23:15there were other players everywhere.

23:18I was just running around with like a

23:19whole party of people unintentionally,

23:22and it went much smoother.

23:24So maybe this isn't prime hours here, but

23:26I can tell you doing it solo,

23:28Al doing a solo is

23:29definitely more challenging.

23:32I'm trying to get through this without

23:34pulling the whole rest

23:35of the damn forest to.

23:38We're kind of holding our own, though.

23:41See if we can get him over

23:41here and throw this bomb at him.

23:43There you go. That was a good hit.

23:45Looks like we scared him away.

23:46Try to jump out of that.

23:47Always forget holding down E gives me a

23:48jump, which is on a cool down as well.

23:51I think you might actually be

23:51able to get this guy, though.

23:53There's another big hit.

23:54We got to watch these

23:55slimeballs coming out.

23:58And then again, so you can see that

23:59little square with the

24:00icon in the middle of it.

24:01That's like a quest boss to go attack,

24:03but we're going to

24:03finish killing this guy.

24:06OK, we got another facing and some shoes,

24:08but my inventory is full.

24:09Let me drop something I can't use.

24:11Hey, stop it. We're close to this guy.

24:14What did I get here?

24:16Another on kill. Can I double equip that?

24:19No, it looks like you

24:19can only have one of those.

24:21What else? I got something else.

24:22OK, these boots down here.

24:24I already have a pair of those for boots.

24:26So that's not going to

24:26do me a whole lot of good.

24:29Realm sealed.

24:30I don't know what that means.

24:32I don't know what that means.

24:35I don't imagine it's a

24:36good good news for me.

24:37Does that mean that I can't leave your

24:38blade claim by the life of my comrades?

24:41You cannot hide.

24:43Oh, man, something's happening.

24:45I don't know what's happening, you guys.

24:47Something's oh, oh, this

24:49is what happened last time.

24:50So eventually you got you get brought

24:52into these sanctums here.

24:53Right. And you got to

24:54fight these mega bosses,

24:56which is like pretty crazy when you're

24:57pretty low level, you know.

25:01Let's focus on this guy back here.

25:02This isn't even the mega boss.

25:03There's some really tough bosses in here.

25:06I pretty much just ran

25:06around and hid last time.

25:09Dropping nuke on them.

25:11Yeah, the mega bosses over here.

25:12Here, I'll show you guys before I die.

25:13So you get brought in like this crazy

25:15pandemonium of a situation

25:17where you can't even tell what's going on

25:19because there's so many red bars.

25:22There's just shit everywhere.

25:23I do like my little mask I got, though.

25:26I don't know where I got that home from.

25:29We're just going to

25:29kind of kite around here.

25:33Now, it seems like the

25:34bosses do have mechanics.

25:36Eventually, yeah, I see they start

25:36throwing out these things.

25:38And my goal is just hide behind here.

25:40This is my super tough

25:41guy mechanic that I play.

25:44My warrior hiding these

25:46fools will fuck you up.

25:48Yeah, so I'm not sure exactly how this

25:49room gets triggered.

25:51Maybe after you kill a certain amount,

25:52not you particularly,

25:54but people in the lobby kill a

25:57particular level up, I guess.

25:59Kill a particular amount of those quest

26:02bosses in the lobby.

26:03Then you get this like

26:04basically dungeon that pops up.

26:08You see, people just get in here.

26:09They're going crazy.

26:11I just took a fucking

26:12butt ton of damage, though.

26:13Did I die? I died just popping in there.

26:16I got killed by Lord, whatever.

26:18This whole fight is chaos.

26:19Like I just went over there and I

26:20couldn't even see what happened.

26:21And I died.

26:23All right, subscribe again.

26:26Might as well pander.

26:31Might as well pander.

26:32This shows me again down here on the

26:33bottom left hand corner.

26:34Kind of how I died.

26:35So from the whole half hour

26:36that we were playing right now,

26:38I only unlocked five of these tomatoes.

26:42So you figure it's about

26:43five tomatoes per half hour run.

26:47It's going to take a long time to unlock

26:49the new characters to play.

26:51So I definitely think they need to make

26:52some adjustments to that.

26:54Without a doubt, there needs to be

26:55adjustments to that.

26:56So this was born again.

26:58I just wanted to jump in and kind of show

26:59you guys what this is all about here.

27:01Born again is a

27:02permadeath roguelike MMORPG.

27:05I think it is flawed

27:06in its current state.

27:08I think the devs need to do a close look

27:10on how they want the new player

27:12experience to be, and I think they need

27:14to revisit how they monetize

27:16cosmetic items. It's available on Steam.

27:18It's free to play.

27:19And it came out on

27:20the 15th of this month.

27:22Well, thank you so much

27:23for watching, everybody.

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