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Brighter Shores feels an awful lot like RuneScape, but its promising start is still missing some key ingredients
A look at Brighter Shores - the early access MMORPG from Fen Research, founded by Andrew Gower who created RuneScape.
Rather than having an open landscape for you to traverse, the world of Brighter Shores is divided into a series of main locations, which are then constructed out of a collection of individual spaces, be it a town square, thief-infested alleyway or forest meadow. But it pays off in usefulness, as even this kind of basic information is listed alongside where each enemy or resource sits within the menu for its dedicated Profession (Brighter Shores' term for skills) - and that includes the ability to pull that location up on your map. It's an act which doesn't quite fix the absence of feeling like you've embarked on a grand quest, but it does lay the foundations for what's (hopefully) to come, and that's a good achievement for an early access MMO to fulfil.
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