Come for the games, stay for the drama.
It’s a 2D side-scrolling action RPG about a brave Valkyrie and her overbearing father, Odin.
Everyone says that this game has no story and all the characters are the same and once you’ve played the first few levels, you’ve seen all the game can offer. But, everyone is wrong.
DM: You see an encounter before you
Party: I don’t recognize this one. Hmmm. Okay, everyone, brace up, we’re heading in!
DM: It is a black hole. It immediately begins to suck you in.
Party: Run! RUN!
DM: You can’t get away. You are sucked in, everyone dies. Roll up a new party.
Needle drop some Blue Oyster Cult, and you could pretend this post-apocalyptic arcade shooter is the iconic Taarna segment from the Heavy Metal movie. It’s all the otherworldly rails shooter action you could want in a game.
DC Universe Online has had a problem. It’s the most popular of Daybreak’s MMOs, but its spandex tights flies under the radar of most MMO players. Recent content dumps (called “episodes”) are still very crowded. Recent changes to show exactly how many players are in each zone (and across how many instances) shows that the most recent hub areas support hundreds of players at any time of the day — and this isn’t counting the Nintendo Switch players, who have their own sets of servers.