I was really looking forward to Rusty Hearts, mainly because the trailer made it look so good I swear I was watching an Anime. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the trailer was actually almost completely in game content. Let’s get one thing straight right now, Rusty Hearts is NOT a game, it is an Interactive Anime, and worst of all it’s a Bad Anime. Bad Animes have clearly defined heroes, clearly defined villains, no anti-heroes, no changes of heart, and no story driving anybody forward. The heroes go one pointless adventure after pointless adventure and it all drags out a lot longer than it should. Like Inuyasha or Trinity Blood.
Returning to the point I made earlier in that paragraph, Rusty Hearts is not a game and is by no means a RPG, but I guess if I absolutely HAVE to give it a game label it’s an Action slice-em-up MMO and I use the term “MMO” lightly cause I hardly saw any other people while I played it. There is no customization at all; you are playing premade character and the game reminds you of this every time it can with bad unskipable cutsceenes and NPC conversations that are ridiculously linear and throw our your characters name (the name of the hero not your in game name) at every turn. The characters you can choose from are a male vampire, a male werewolf, a female witch and a school girl with a large pair of breasts and a lead fetish. You know, the Full Metal Panic version of school girls. Seriously how hard is it to make an Action MMO with customizable features? At the very least you could slap on a Male of Female option to the game, getting rid of gender lock alone would make the games just so much more amazing to play.
If there’s anything good to say about this game it’s that the graphics are alright, but this is an anime game so that’s to be expected. All the areas are dark and dreary proudly showing off the depressing 'Castlevania' setting of the world. The armor you find does nothing more than boost your stats, they don’t want you messing up the characters they worked so hard to make; heaven forbid they look any different for when Perfect World actually tries to make an Anime out of this like they should have in the first place. The weapons and skill animations look cool, but that's really not saying much. Every Hack-N-Slash "MMO" goes out of their way to make the skills as unnecessarily lavish as possible in hopes that the amazing combat alone will be enough to make us forgive and forget the fact that we're not really playing as ourselves, but hey newsflash that doesn't even come close to helping action MMOs get out of the very VERY deep rut they have dug themselves into.
I find it increasingly difficult to find mean things to say about Perfect World seeing as this is the same company that showed me the absolutely amazing WoW-Killer that was Forsaken World, but looking back I probably shouldn’t have started with that game as it forever set PWE’s bar just a little too high. Truly Forsaken World was their crowning achievement and starting with that I feel I’ve skipped the main course only to start with the dessert made by the Ace of Cakes; only to go back to find that the main course was prepared days before by the hotel staff and was simply reheated for today’s meal.
Anyway long story short, Rusty Hearts scores a 1 out of 10 It’s bad, don’t bother, find something else, yada-yada-yada. 
