I’ll be honest about this, Rusty Hearts never caught my eye. From the moment I saw it, I thought it would be a generic anime-styled MMO, and the name didn’t help. Fortunately, I was 
wrong. Rusty Hearts is not the traditional MMO as it feels more like singleplayer at times, but what it does, it does very well.
What Rusty Hearts does is action. Rusty Hearts is an action MMO reminiscent of Dungeon Fighter. Where they differ is not only in the setting, but in overall graphics. For an MMO, Rusty Hearts has high production values. The cell-shade graphics are crisp and the game even has some fancy graphical effects, such as depth of field effects. The overall result of this is not just a game that looks fantastic, but one that can be, in it’s own way, addicting thanks to the fact that Rusty Hearts isn’t just interested in providing great gameplay, but also in telling a story. Thanks to that, it sometimes feels as if you just might be watching an anime. Hell, Rusty Hearts is even split into episodes, each with their own closely related sub-arcs that deal with the main overarching narrative.
Of course, with an MMO, especially one that’s free-to-play, most people aren’t in it for the story, they just want to know how fun it is. To summarize this entire review: Rusty Hearts is fun, download it, plug in a controller(if you have one) and get ready to have a blast sending your enemies straight to hell. The only issue that may directly impede on the amount of fun you have, whether or not you have a gamepad to play with. Rusty Hearts is fun in general, but the keyboard controls can take a bit to get used to. You can easily play and get good with a keyboard, but if you’re feeling to lazy to adjust, a controller works very well. Even better is the fact that Rusty Hearts plays so well on a controller that you might even forget your playing a PC MMO.
