Aspects is the first MMORPG with a true sandbox focus. You're not the destined hero set on saving the world just like player #254,659 and player #67890023, you're a person, and that's what makes you different. Humanity consists of good and bad aspects, and they're all defined by the differences in people. This game is not an illusion, you are not given freedom at the cost that you discover it within constraints on a path of NPC conversations who send you on a series of quests you have no personal investment in, because the world is about the aspects of your humanity and how you define yourself, and not the story someone else uses to define you.
The game is set around a feudal fantasy like many MMO's where you start off as just a person within a communal living quarters. You have no quests, but an entire world to discover at your will and an opportunity to do so with the people around you if you desire. You are never explicitly told to do anything by the game and you are never provided a giant manual on all of the games aspects because you are here to discover your own. As you interact with the world you will discover your options, such as the ability to steal, help, and harm others, whatever you want to do. As the game understands your aspects the game will only then provide you information on how to pursue the things you like doing further, at your own pace of course.
The game is built around the idea that if a player is good enough to do something, they should succeed without being prevented by invisible walls or invincible characters. There are no level restrictions on areas or enemies, no invincible town guards. If you want to surpass things faster than you normally would with a group of friends, that is your strategic choice to make and the game will reward you for it. If you want to throw a player hub guarded by strong NPC's into anarchy and you are strong enough to do so, you can. With enough strength, you and your friends could choose to murder every NPC guard and install yourself as a dictator over major player hubs to satiate your own greed and lust for power. Or you could move far away from all the violence, build a home for yourself in a purely PvE area (as defined by server hosts), have a small farm and animals, find an instrument, and play Midi files through it for fun. Because the world consists of many aspects, and in any self respecting game that claims to offer freedom, the choices should be yours to make.
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