Blade & Soul

 PC
  • Publisher: NCSOFT
  • Release Date: Jan 19, 2016
User Score
4.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 281 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 281
  2. Mixed: 42 out of 281
  3. Negative: 141 out of 281

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  1. Nemesis612
    Jan 22, 2016
    0
    This game is horrible. It is not action combat. Projectiles that target you will always hit. Several times projectiles curves in S shapes around corner to hit you. In a true action combat, if an arrow is shot at you and you jump, it shouldn't hit. This is anything but action combat. Being able to miss your sword swing if nothing stands there does not equate to being action combat.

    The    This game is horrible. It is not action combat. Projectiles that target you will always hit. Several times projectiles curves in S shapes around corner to hit you. In a true action combat, if an arrow is shot at you and you jump, it shouldn't hit. This is anything but action combat. Being able to miss your sword swing if nothing stands there does not equate to being action combat.

    The tagging system is archaic. People can and will steal your kill. There are other games that have set higher standard for the industry. Everything should have been open tag and given credit to everyone who participate. Things like this is what make people despite MMO. The loot bidding system is also terrible. All loots should be systematically given to players instead of forcing each other into a bidding war. The year is 2016 not 2006. Questing involves basic kill, escort and collect but doing it over and over is boring.

    Graphic is ok, some terrain textures are hideous.

    The game is free to play but it places several obstacles in your way in the most basic things such as inventory spaces and wardrobe to "encourage" you to pay up. And if you want to be competitive in either PvE or PvP, better be a whale or you're just a lowly peasant.

    Overall, game play wise it is not comparable to Guild Wars 2, graphic wise it is not comparable to the upcoming Black Desert. Dungeon system is subpar compare to World of Warcraft.

    Blade and Souls is mediocre at best.    … Expand
  2. DaReaIFreak
    Feb 3, 2016
    0
    I enjoyed the game on the asian servers and started on the european servers too.
    The european servers are literally dead half of the week so far with constant crashes, client bugs and random bans for buying their itemshop currency.
    The biggest part of the community is antisocial trying to rip of other players with the unique bidding system(higher tier drops are sold in an auction where    I enjoyed the game on the asian servers and started on the european servers too.
    The european servers are literally dead half of the week so far with constant crashes, client bugs and random bans for buying their itemshop currency.
    The biggest part of the community is antisocial trying to rip of other players with the unique bidding system(higher tier drops are sold in an auction where everyone can bid an amount or increase the amount of simply pressing the key "Y", but without any confirmation and auto-price updating if someone else is increasing the price, so if someone else is increasing the price directly before you are pressing Y you are automatically outbidding the new price)

    I enjoyed the game in the asian version with working servers and a friendly community, sadly that's not given in the european version.    … Expand
  3. Wangchi
    Feb 10, 2016
    0
    Crap laggy game. i dont lag in other games this bad. PVE is hella boring and PVP isnt balance at all. They just patched it and broke the balancing even more.... WAY TO GO MORONS! i swear game devs never get it right when there is no communication with the player base. Read the forums, i havent seen one post in the pvp section from an NCSOFT employee...but they care *rolls eyes*
  4. devranek
    Feb 11, 2016
    0
    I have been waiting for this game so long. The only one hope in this game is combat system, but not at all. PvE is boring, repeat instances until you die. There is a littlw open world PvP which is even not exciting.
    Worst thing is that more than half of people have good ping (ex. 30-50), but when they enter Arena, ping is 300+. A lot of posts in the forum but developers don't care and    I have been waiting for this game so long. The only one hope in this game is combat system, but not at all. PvE is boring, repeat instances until you die. There is a littlw open world PvP which is even not exciting.
    Worst thing is that more than half of people have good ping (ex. 30-50), but when they enter Arena, ping is 300+. A lot of posts in the forum but developers don't care and don't even listen community. Whatmore, did you know that dmg output in this game highly depends on ping? People with low ping can casts skill so fast, that there is no animation of skills, hilarious. Skill mechanic is so bad. It could be easy to fix, but developers are old, fat amd lazy people who care only about money and know only little about gameplay. Will be no better until they change stuff for young, innovative people, who knows not less than little about mmorpgs.    … Expand
  5. Anveena
    Feb 11, 2016
    0
    A great PvP experience... if only the NA/EU release would not have been ruined by terrible servers which cause players playing in Germany (European servers are hosted there) to have a ping reaching 200 ms...
    Please fix this NCSoft before more players turn their backs to the game.
  6. happymealfighta
    Feb 15, 2016
    0
    Not much to say about it, some devout players will stick to it for the good combat system; but that is all about it. If you want to play something new and refreshing, that kicks you off your chair from all the excitement it delivers ... you will be direly disappointed.
    I will give a pro-cons from my perspective: first two weeks f2p then moved to premium
    ( you DONT GET INTO THE GAME    Not much to say about it, some devout players will stick to it for the good combat system; but that is all about it. If you want to play something new and refreshing, that kicks you off your chair from all the excitement it delivers ... you will be direly disappointed.
    I will give a pro-cons from my perspective: first two weeks f2p then moved to premium
    ( you DONT GET INTO THE GAME WITHOUT PREMIUM e.g. in my f2p weeks I had to wait 3 hours to get into the game due to artificial waiting queues and being dced or client crashed refreshed that timer)
    Pros:
    +Up to date graphics
    +A lot of voice acted cutscenes (I think all are english)
    +developed skilltrees with a lot of variety in each class (most dont make sense though)
    +fun pvp (with buts on cons)
    +a lot of stuff to do on daily basis (with huge cons)
    Cons:
    -no level and loot feeling at all since you ve to ENHANCE ONE SET OF ITEMS to lvl 50 (when update arives) through tossing tons of low-lvl-gear at it in addition to huge ammounts of gold and later on special daily limited currency
    -Up to date graphics that you cant degrade to a way you can play this smoothly on older machines (it is not possible to turn off other players effects)
    -outdated quest, storyline and pve system (feels like playing a korea grinder from 2001)
    -pvp can be fun if you are playing the currently overpowered classes since this NOT the finished game from current korea servers these will vary... ALOT (lots of NCSOFT made nerfs that make some classes just rediculously overpowered)
    -marketplace is browserbased, crashes alot and is not permanently available
    -shop items except costumes are one-use only and way too overpriced for that
    -playing on low-end machines makes this game living hell, you ll glitch through floors and fall off the map. You wont see enemies right away, it takes minutes to render them... or their names
    -reaching end level you pretty much ignore any other instance but the pvp-arena, there is NO other reason to go there for anything but raredroped costumes
    -no roll system on items, you ought to perform an auction on droped items, means that anyone rich enough and willing to pay for that item, he ll get that item... most likely way more cheap than its actually worth. Or, in most cases, the other teammates will bid on your needed items to make you pay for it even more.
    -frustrating worldboss mechanics (world bosses engage with an aoe instant kill move to rid off ppl, non-evadable of course except with previously bought or crafted guilditem [you need to lvl a guild to craft it})
    -crafting system is a joke, order-receive-reorder-receive.... nothing to do manually    … Expand
  7. Fud007
    Feb 23, 2016
    0
    Great action combat game plagued by the worst publisher in gaming history, NCSoft. There's bots everywhere. The only thing the game has going for it endgame is 1v1 arena. PvE endgame is completely pay2win. Stay far away.
  8. generalteemo
    Feb 28, 2016
    0
    this game
    -worst game launcher ever
    -very very very ping reliant. you cant compete on high rank pvp if you have 100+ms latency, oh wait, you can but youll suck. -worst crafting/gathering system ever -worst loot system -bots. bots are fine. they help us farm what we need and sell it on auction for cheap price. bots in pvp? WTF? SRSLY? this game has like 90% bots 10% players actually    this game
    -worst game launcher ever
    -very very very ping reliant. you cant compete on high rank pvp if you have 100+ms latency, oh wait, you can but youll suck.
    -worst crafting/gathering system ever
    -worst loot system
    -bots. bots are fine. they help us farm what we need and sell it on auction for cheap price. bots in pvp? WTF? SRSLY? this game has like 90% bots 10% players actually playing.
    i bet sooner theyll announce that all those problems are working as intended cos they cant **** fix it, just like how they cant fix animation cancelling.
    did the dev even experienced other mmos before they created this piece of ****    … Expand
  9. XredeemerX
    Jul 28, 2020
    0
    blade and soul is a solid 0 out of 10 game run by the worst publisher on the planet
  10. JeisnWeid
    Mar 20, 2018
    0
    Can't really find a thing to like about this game, nothing about it stands out.
  11. Chrisplaysmore
    Sep 19, 2021
    0
    What an garbage game, nice graphics but that is the only positive! Why would anyone plays this when there are so many better games out there?
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Metascore
68

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Games.cz
    May 18, 2016
    70
    Addictive MMORPG with a classic core, whose main attraction is a great and entertaining fight together with a number of well-functioning systems. Only some particular technical problems and boring quests prevent the gem to achieve the greater score.
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  2. Everyeye.it
    Apr 20, 2016
    68
    We waited a lot to play Balde & Soul, but NCSOFT's MMO arrives on the west market a little too late. The action oriented combat system is interesting and well designed, but PvP is still unbalanced and the endgame is tasteless and boring. The game, in conclusion, has very good intuitions but a very bad structure.
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  3. CD-Action
    Mar 30, 2016
    65
    A belated game following the band of other Korean MMOs vanishing on the horizon. [03/2016, p.58]
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