Review Submitted By: Rockman
Author Status: Player
Started on Cleft of Dimensions: Sometime around 2002
Submission Date: Feb 1, 2008
TMC Listing: Cleft of Dimensions
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Rockman]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Wow, what can I say? I began playing Cleft of Dimensions in the
beginning of the millennium with a friend. The overall atmosphere
wasn't too serious and we spent a lot of time being drunk in Rocket
Town. For one reason or another, we stopped playing (in 2003, I
believe). I came back in 2007 and things changed greatly and for the
better.
The playerbase, completely different from the first experience,
retained its friendly goofiness with a dash of seriousness when
needed. I can't say I've felt more at home than here. Along with the
players, the staff are very friendly and helpful. In my opinion, the
staff's attitude affects the playerbase's attitude and in this area,
the Cleft's staff have done well.
New areas are continually being built and the old areas I romped
through as a wee'un had received major updates by the time I
returned. Areas, though perhaps not so easy to find on one's first
outing, are fairly easy to memorize after a trip through them. Based
mostly on RPGs with a few non-RPG and anime areas, they are all linked
in a believable way.
The Cleft's assortment of races is your most basic assortment of
videogame races. Humans, hylians, reploids, and more have individual
maximum statistics representing that race from its source. All races
have an ability or two unique to that race, such as the hylian ability
to discern another's alignment or a reploid's immunity to poisons.
Classes have been removed and adjusted in order to better define
their differences. Classes such as ninja and dragoon were removed
because they were too similar to other established classes. The
remaining classes were tweaked and rebuilt from the ground up to the
end that no two classes are quite the same anymore.
Overall, I find the Cleft of Dimensions to be a wholesome and
entertaining MUD full of friendly players and staff and hope that
readers of this review take it upon themselves to give the Cleft a
try.
