Cosmic Break Review

Overview

Cosmic Break is third-person, anime-styled, mech-based MMORPG that feels, looks, and sounds like an arcade game but plays a lot like an MMORPG. In Cosmic Break, players are able to customize robots and battle with them.
As you can see from the image above, a lot of the robots you can play as are basically chicks with robot limbs. This does not mean you have to play as a chick, but by all means, if you want to, go ahead. There are three different Unions at war with each other and they are: WIZ, DOS, BRD. I have no clue what those are supposed to mean, but that's what they're called. Players can play in three different game mode; Arena, Mission, and Quest. Arena mode is the PvP mode where two teams consisting of up to 5 players battle it out. Also in the Arena, players can take part in Union wars, where teams of up to 30 players can duke it out against another three-letter named Union (I will never accept those names). In missions, players can team up and fight enemy NPC's through multiple stages until they reach and defeat the boss. Quest mode, or what I like to call "Treasure Hunt", requires players to find the treasures to complete their quests. To advance through stages in Quest mode, players are required to kill things and collect keys.

Parts

In Cosmic Break, there are tons of different parts to customize your robots. The basic types of parts are arms (left and right), legs (just left), bodies, heads, boosters, weapons, and bits (I'll explain later). Just to clarify, the left and right limbs do not have to be identical, you can have a huge, buff, ripped right arm, and a puny noodle left arm, but the same does not apply to the legs. Colors are all up to you to customize for each individual part, and weapon. A body of a robot is what determines it's basic stats, but when making a robot you can add whatever parts you like as long as it is under the cost limit. (A cost limit is the total limit of the individual costs of each part. If my robots cost limit is 650, and the costs of all the parts I try to add to my robot is above that, it wont let me do that. Note, cost is not the same as price, it is an individual characteristic.)

Primary and Secondary Weapons

For those of you who didn't read the title, there are two types of weapons, primary and secondary. A primary weapon is used with the left-click, and secondary with the right-click, and if more than one primary weapon is equipped (you can have special parts that have weapons installed into them, such as your head or body) then you can use all of your primary weapons by hold both the left and right mouse buttons, but you will not be able to move. All gun or laser weapons have ammo, and once your out of ammo... your out of ammo. Melee weapons do not have limits to their use, but you obviously need to be right in front of the dude your tryna kill which can get hard at times.

Robot Types and Sizes

There are four types of robots; Air, Land, Support, and Artillery. Air types moves quicker and for longer durations in air than any other type. Land types move quicker on land than any other type. Support types are commonly known as "healers", because that's what they do. Artillery types are equipped with long range, homing type attacks and are too fat to move at all. Each type is stronger and weaker against certain types. In case you didn't understand lemme introduce you to a little game called Rock, Paper, Scissors. Rock beats scissors, but is beat by paper (dunno how). Paper beats rock but is beat by scissors. Finally, Scissors beats paper but is beat by rock. In Cosmic Break, Air beats Land types but is beat by Artillery types, Land beats Artillery types but is beat by Air, and Artillery beats Air but is beat by Land. You must be wondering, "Well, what about Support types!?" Support types don't usually fight and therefore have no strengths or weaknesses, they just heal.

As well as robot types, Cosmic Break presents it's players with Robot and weapon sizes. There are 3 robot sizes; small, medium, and large. And there are 5 weapon sizes; small (S), extra-small (SS), medium (M), large (L), and extra-large (LL). Depending on the size of your robot (which depends on the body size), you can equip weapons that are 1 size larger, 1 size smaller, or the same size as your robot. This gives players more customization options, and lets you decide what kind of gameplay you want to experience.

Garapon

The garapon is basically "spin and win" type thing. You choose the garapon you want to try your luck in, you choose how many times you wanna spin, and you cross your fingers and wish for the best. There are more than 10 garapons (which consist of different prizes) that you can roll in, but unfortunately only one in which players can use the game's currency, UC. All the rest require you to pay in Rt which is the game's equivalent to item mall currency. And to be quite honest, the UC garapon's prizes are really bad. Even worse, they don't show you the prize list for the only free garapon they have. That honestly is a no no Cyberstep, in the naughty room for you!

Item Cubes

Item cubes are little cubes that can do all sorts of stuff. You can get lotto cubes which let you choose a chest and hope something nice comes up. You get one every consecutive day you log in, I think. There are EXP boost cubes, UC cubes, item drop cubes, and the most fun of all, challenge cubes. Once used, the cube challenges you to complete certain requirements within the given time limit. An example would be "Spam the chat with over 1000 messages in under 30 minutes!" That one's the easiest of them all. Joking aside, the challenge cubes put you under time and performance pressure in what seems to be the intensiest (no, not a word) aspect of the game. Personally, I prefer the Arena mode where I can own noobs that I know really exist. It just feels a lot better than killing NPCs that you can't feel sorry for.

Dispatch System

The dispatch is a relatively new system in Cosmic Break that lets you "send" your unused robots away to do quest and received rewards. Each quest has different requirements such as robot types, or dispatch duration (how much time you'll be weeping for your useless bots to come back home). As you do these quests you gain points which will enable you to unlock more dispatch quests with higher rewards. This is a great way to put your unused robots to work instead of having them rot in your garage (they don't really rot).

MMO Factory Rates

Graphics: 6/10

Gameplay: 8/10

Player Base: 9/10

Music and Sound: 7/10

Customization: 10/10

Total: 40/50

Pros:

- One of the most in-depth customization

- Players can play and level up the way they want

- Quick and fast-paced gameplay requires little time, but provides maximum action

- Always new content coming out to keep players interest

- System requirements aren't that high

Cons:

- Bad internet connection can ruin the game

- Garapon is basically not a free feature

- Hard to play on laptop mousepad

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