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It’s a wonder the coders at Webzen find time to sleep. Over the last couple of years they’ve rolled out an impressive number of content updates for RPG MU Origin, taking it all the way up to version 7, and yet they’ve somehow found time to make MU Origin 2 as well.

This latest addition to the MU franchise – which started life as a web game back in 2001 – doesn’t take any major risks. In fact, its overriding priority is to give you the smoothest, easiest RPG experience possible. How you’ll feel about that depends on what kind of gamer you are.

The word that best describes MU Origin 2 is “streamlined”. In that spirit, you get just three character types to choose from at the outset: Dark Knight, Dark Wizard, and Elf. And it’s just a short hop from picking an avatar to taking on story quests.

These are dispensed by NPCs with an endless supply of odd jobs to dish out, normally involving the killing of monsters. Once you accept a story quest, by simply tapping a prompt on the left of the screen, you automatically towards the action.

You automatically kill the enemies you find there, too, though returning to the quest-giver to receive your reward seemingly constitutes a new quest.

Naturally, there are non-story quests too. These are designed to keep you moving in the right direction, progress-wise, by encouraging you to make use of modes and features as they become available, such as the Guild, the dungeons, and the Auction.

There are also daily quests, and innumerable kill quests. Interestingly, these involve not only killing ten of X monsters, but killing waves of monsters by travelling around and finding them on the location map. A single quest can see you terminating over a hundred monsters, all without touching the screen.

MU Origin 2 has a definite autopilot vibe, and that partly extends to the RPG admin. For instance, when you pick up an item a button appears allowing you to equip it right away, without going into your inventory, and you can transfer an item’s enhancement level to a new one too.

The Good

However, MU Origin 2 is not entirely an autopilot affair. While the opening few hours are more than usually streamlined, eventually you’ll need to start paying close attention if you want to get anywhere.

That point comes at around level 150. The first 100 levels fly past in a haze, as you romp invincibly through all the battles the game has to throw at you. Your Zen (the game’s most abundant currency) is seemingly never-ending, and you level-up at breakneck speed.

But things start slowing down after that. Upgrading your skills gets more expensive as the level gets higher, and you acquire more skills to boot, so you start running out of Zen. And the pace of your levelling up slows too, which often means you can’t take on story quests until you’ve scraped together some more XP.

This in turn forces you to make some decisions – about how to spend your limited Zen, and which activities to engage in to help you progress the fastest. Do you jump into an event like the EXP Dungeon or the Guild Battlefield, or do you take on a simple single-player dungeon or Infinite Tower instead?

Or you can throw off the shackles entirely and just explore the areas of the MU continent that you’ve unlocked so far. Movement is handled with a virtual stick on the left while your skills are arrayed on the right. Using these inputs you can maraud around Atlans, killing fishy things, or Devias, killing yetis.

There’s a rich variety of monsters to kill and environments to kill them in, and while technically the visuals are only so-so the designs are interesting and varied.

The Bad

Presentation is not a generally strong point for the game, with tiny, poorly localized text and ropey voice audio leaving a bad taste. As stated previously the game can feel like it’s on auto-pilot at times.

The Verdict

MU Origin 2 is not revolutionary, but it’s worthy of the MU license. While there’s plenty to keep you busy, and all the staples of the mobile RPG genre are here, you’ll enjoy it most if you like your RPGs fairly lightweight.

8.6

OVERALL

Replayability 8.6

Game Controls 8.4

Graphics 8.8

Sound/Music 8.4

Gameplay 8.6

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MU ORIGIN 2 -WEBZEN Officially

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One of the very cool features of your iPhone is that it can do more than just take pictures, it can take Live Photos.

By setting your camera to Live Photo mode (on by default) you wind up with some amazing shots that just have to be seen on your iPhone to get the full effect. Or do they?

OK, so you take a great Live Photo and you are showing it only to whoever is near your phone and you’re swiping like a maniac to show the motion effect. What if you could share it, with all its motion glory, without any hassle?

That’s where UberGif, from developer LuLu Systems, Inc., comes into play.

UberGif is the ideal solution for iPhone user who wants to share their Live Photo masterpiece with friends and family either directly or via social media.

Features:  

This is one app that you will use again and again. It’s a lightweight app that lets you convert Live Photos into a gif right on your trusty iDevice quickly and easily.

In fact, it makes it so easy to do that you’ll find yourself looking for situation where there’s interesting movement just so you can turn it into a gif.

What about all the times you’re not staring at your iPhone, which may not be much but still, those rare moments do happen. What do you do about that? Aha, UberGif has you covered in the non-iPhone real world too.

For $4.70 you can have your gif turned into a 3.25″ square magnetic lenticular image. That is, you get one of those funky images that moves when you look at it from slightly different angles.

You also are able to earn a $5.00 coupon towards the purchase of one of these moving magnets by completing four tasks related to using the app and spreading the word; sign up and register, create 5 ubergifs, share 3 ubergifs, and invite 2 friends to download the app.

Layout and Design:  

This app is pretty simple as apps go and comes with a simple and clean interface.

This was not a herculean UI design task since the app doesn’t do much, but still, we appreciate that it wasn’t over engineered. Of course the side benefit is that you can breeze through the process and get your nifty little gif lickety split.

One of the things we’re not too crazy about, though, is that it doesn’t “look ahead” at your camera roll so you only see Live Photos from which to choose. Instead you see all of your photos and only after picking one do you find out it can’t be used because it’s not a Live Photo.

After the installation, you simply open the app and allow it to see your photos on your camera roll. Then you just scroll around to find the shot you want to convert.

Overall Value:  

 UberGif can be downloaded from the App Store for free. There are no ads and no IAPs. We think that’s a great deal if you’re interested in sharing your Live Photos.

UberGif requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

 

 

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