Bringing an MMO to consoles on a controller is always a tricky task, but I was amazed at how much Tera felt right at home when I played it on PS4 Pro this week.
The free-to-play online RPG plays more like an action game than most of its MMO competition, relying on actual timing, dodging, and aim over damage dice rolls. It makes Tera feel closer to Devil May Cry than World of Warcraft, and as a result fits on a gamepad almost naturally.
But making it seem like a simple translation sells short the work developer Bluehole and publisher En Masse had to do to get it feeling this slick. The menus and UI have been completely rebuilt, designed to take advantage of the shoulder buttons and make text boxes more legible when read from your couch across the room.
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