Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore Review In Progress

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Let’s talk about the new kid on the block Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore . Releasing on Steam today, Ethyrial is an open-world sandbox indie MMORPG that is being developed by Gellyberry Studios and published by Freedom Games. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a promising indie MMORPG, so how does Ethyrial hold up with those already on the market?

Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore announced that it is going to be a subscription-based game coming in at $10/month, but there will be a F2P option with around 20 Hours worth of unique content, limited to the Solitary Isles. While I’m not sure that I currently want to fork over money for another subscription, I’m also glad to see that they’ve made it a point of stating that there will only be cosmetics in the shop and no PTW elements.  

Since my fiancé and I have been starving for a new MMO to play recently, we jumped into Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore together to test the waters. He typically plays the hard-hitting characters, and I drift towards support or magic so I was excited to see the large list of archetypes you can choose from during character creation:

There are so many choices, and I’m drawn to all of them! As far as I’m aware, these archetypes are considered your “starting vocations,” so there’s much more room down the line to customize abilities, talents, and spells. I haven’t gotten to see much of that yet, but I’m very excited to dive into what makes two Druids different from each other.

I like the idea of using splash art for each character archetype because it allowed me to get a feel of what that class fantasy was all about at-a-glance. With that being said, we did agree that it was very reminiscent of AI art. The art served the intended purpose-which I assumed was to