It is just a fun survival game with lore that is at times funny and self aware. And if you play in a multiplayer world it is possible to go through the whole game without ever capturing and using Pals (outside of a few cases if using them as mounts to get to places to far away for humans to swim to. If you are unwilling to build giant towers to glide from.) by trading people and buying the things you can't craft yourself. Or just capture a Human NPC who can do the task for you (looking as the guy with the flamethrower who uses it for both smithing and cooking.). Just remember there is always more than one way to do things, ethics aside.

If you like trying to build a nice relaxing community or fighting the whole world full of chaos where you people can be randomly killed by things falling from the sky while a army man hunting meat eat deer is charging at your gunnery bunker this game is for you.

P.s.
it is really easy to became the "bad people" in if you don't watch what your people are doing. Let's just war crimes is a kind of meme in this game.

I like what I see in the game so far. This is not just some copy of Pokemon, but rather takes ideas from it an builds on them. I like the battle system and how it stops people from spamming the same thing every turn. You have to give your Temtem a rest if their stamina is low or risk them hurting themselves as the battle goes on. Fighting co-op is fun too as you can do powerful combos if you set up the right active abilities with the right passives. I also love how your Temtem never forget old abilities as they learn new ones. This means as you change your team around or go into different areas you just change the skills around rather than trying to capture a new copy of that Temtem. There are still some bugs here and there in this early stages of the game. But I can't wait to see where the devs will go in the future.

It is just a relaxing fun little ant farm sim with clones of people.

FireFall is a open world MMO first and third person shooter what is skill based. All fighting in the game, be it PVE or PVP, is all 3 dimensional as every player have jumpjets and different enemies fly or hide underground. Each archtype (class) of battleframes plays differently from each other and can accommodate a large variety of different playing styles. You can easlies be the long wolf or the leader of an army. The would is alive as missions and randomed events can happen anywhere at anytime, because of this you are always going into the unknown when traveling or fighting.

There many stories to be told and found thoughout the world. Just because it seems like the end of the world people are not going to stop being people. The personal lifes and drama people have to deal with day to day just doesn't go away because the looming threat that everyone be killed at a moment's notice. Help out survivors learn their stories and maybe learn more about what is happen behind the scenes.

Mabinogi is a play as you want game. There is really not much you can't do in this game as far as picking how you want your character to look and feel. Outside of few race locked skills there is no ability you can't learn and master in this game if given enough time. Even for people who like to do nothing more than craft items and gear all day the game is set up not only to let you do that, but you to also level up while doing it. In this game what level you are doesn't really mater as much as the rank of the skills you use and how well you can use them. Even a person who is a total newbie can manage to kill bosses for as long as they got the timing of their skills right, know when you block and/or dodge, know what weapons work best for what you are doing. There is no such things as making a bad roll when creating or playing your character as part of the systems as well as story is "rebirthing". Letting to restart your character from lvl 1 and/or change your looks again. When rebirthing only your level is reset and you keep all your gear and skills. So over many life times you can build up your skills only focusing on what you want.

This updates often with events that are fun for new and old players alike. And the main story of the game is well thoughtout and deep. Besides being fun and well as challenging. People who are aware of real world history and mythology will notice and spot a lot of the hidden meaning behide a number of the people, places, and things within the game.