Review: The Legend of Heroes

The Legend of Heroes

AU Fandom - The Legend of Heroes (Sen no Kiseki)

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22 January 2013 - 05:54 AM

Most posts could be expected to be around 300 to 400 words, however post length swung wildly in both directions. Going low as 200 to as high as 800.

The RPG is not very active, very few members. 9 or so, with only 9 characters. There are 3 open posts for RPing at the time of writing with the longest topic being 9 replies.

Original

Original RP based on the Kiseki series of The Legend of Heroes universe

The site is very clean in appearence, the lack of graphics or anything too complex and flashy is one of the sites strengths, nothing draws the eye away from anything that is important. As well as this, it makes it much more faster to load on a computer with a poor internet connection. The colours used are good, nothing is hard to read and the muted grey helps stop eyestrain. The font used is also helps, everything is quite simple, making it easy to read and understand.

However, the appearence could be improved by perhaps moving the chat box to the side or including a sidebar. I would be careful of doing this though as you risk making the page look cluttered. There is a lot of unused space though, but not nessacarily at the detriment to the site.

The site is very easy to navigate. Everything of interest is on the main page and marked clearly. I had no problems navigating the site, or finding anything that I was looking for specifically such as the rules, guidelines or stories.

Things that I expected to find immediately were at the top of the page, this included the story and guidelines, the RPs were lower on the page. It was easy to find and marked clearly as such

Easily found and marked as such. The story gives enough of an idea of what's going on, however I believe that it could benefit from perhaps more information. The story is very light for the type of RP I was expecting. It can be understood easily, there aren't many locations that you need to be aware of, making the plot understandable. As well as this, there is a terminology guide that is extremely helpful

A lot of information is given on how to play the RPG. Links to this information can be found in several areas including on the main page, the first area that I looked was the welcome guide, at the bottom of this guide all the information you needed was listed there.

I feel that there could have been more though, or some areas elaborated. Some of the instructions for skills were also in the rules topic when they should have been in the skills topic. For the most part, information was kept in the one area though.

There was no real area to contact the admin, however you could PM her or use her email which were both on her profile.

The site could benefit from a dedicated area that the admin could respond to that would be open to both members and guests who are interested but just want to ask questions.

The template is very standard, includes the name, birth date, age, height, weight etc. An interesting thing with the template though is the inclusion of occupation and skills, equipment, weapons and such.

The forum is overall quite a nice place, nothing really wrong with it. The only negative point really being the lack of activity and that should hopefully go away as the board gets more exposure and more people join.

To touch on a few things that were asked.

The concepts of the series were generally easy to understand, the terminology page really helped though I would like to see that expanded. Hopefully as the forum grows it will get bigger.

As far as I could tell, the entirity of the forum was indeed viewable as a guest.