Time To Die In Chrono Odyssey’s Early Access Preview

I was genuinely interested to review Chrono Odyssey for one specific reason—it was the first MMORPG that I’ve played probably since World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Well, that’s not entirely true; I dabbled with New World back when it first came out, but adult life didn’t afford me much time to invest in it in earnest. So I was genuinely curious to see what MMOs were like nowadays, and I gotta say, things certainly have changed since I was a boy.

That’s mostly a joke, but there is a degree of truth to it. Back in the 2000s and early 2010s, so many MMOs desperately tried to replicate World of Warcraft’s success and subsequently faded into obscurity. Games like Guild Wars 2, City of Heroes, or even The Old Republic were a few of the standouts, but they all looked and played almost identically—that is to say, like World of Warcraft. 

Which is why Chrono Odyssey was so immediately striking to me because of just how different it felt from any of the MMOs I remembered... Read more