Display MoreComing from Vindictus, TERA, and a bit of Dragon Nest, PSO2, and C9 far in the past, it's... okay.
I picked Lily as my first character, and I don't know if the base writing is bad or the localization is bad, but nearly all of her interactions with other characters are awful to the point that some characters just bounce back and forth between different personalities.
Combat is a pretty generic AoE fest so far, something I saw way back in 2Moons. I'm low level and don't have all of my skills unlocked, but the lack of mobility is annoying in some cases. Some attacks are very hard to dodge if I don't preemptively move on top of my avoidance dash. Bosses are like BAMs in TERA to me, in which their AoE (directional and otherwise) are telegraphed.
Overall, it strikes me as a less ambitious mixture of TERA and PSO2.
I agree about the movement. It's awful at first. It gets better though. And the lack of skills is bad. That annoyed me on the JP servers too. You feel so clunky until later on when you can unlock some passives and new skills.