– The music in the game is top tier and not only that but there are songs with lyrics as well.
(examples of where there are songs with lyrics : in game cutscenes, each character’s song and themed costumes trailers on their youtube’s official channel -Nexon Closers-)
– There’s a big diversity in the characters, everyone got very unique playstyles and they are all different from each other. (19 characters as of now, being 4 teams)
– Coming back to the *, if it wasn’t clear enough for anyone who read my comment, yes, back in 2018 Naddic refused to fire the feminist artist and decided to stand for the cause despite the loss of income and players.

Story (narrative) :

Please read before rating? You were literally skipping dialogues.
Mirae isn’t killing those people and those childs. Her phase power is the scythe. She grew up on an island where a disease is spreading, seeing everyone becoming sick and dying since she’s born, while she stays alive because of phase power. The metaphor with the scythe was creative and sad at the same time. I read through story on a lot of characters, and I would legit put it a 10 out of 10, Closers’ universe is infinite. I don’t want to spoil but those chads implemented a lot of Eldritch Gods into the game. The game got voice overs during all main story dialogues and cutscenes for all the characters, areas and sectors there is. Not many MMOs out there have emotional and detailed stories with as much character development as Closers does. The devs also made the game in a way to make you read, and they succeeded, the majority of people I met read the story and enjoy it, just all the korean videos on youtube and twitter posts related to Closers story is enough of a proof.

Combat :

You said yourself it was fun. Why?
It’s the best part of the game, the combat’s just insane, it got a lot of complex mechanics, similar to punishing gray raven for example. It gets harder pretty fast, first during leveling and by a lot in raids. Yeah quests give some gear but that’s all, and you never one shot bosses, not even mobs later on, trust me, Centum is rough with only story quests gear. You have to do late levels content on almost all characters as soon as you finished story quests (you can start before). Unless you took jumping event which happens once every season I think. Or it might be a bit more rare than that.
To anyone who wants to start the game : Be aware that you’ll need fast reactions for perfect dodge timings, pattern learning and character knowledge. Once you get used to it you’ll be on fire don’t worry.

World :

The most questionable rating to me, but I’m not surprised either since you haven’t experienced anything to be able to give a rating for it.
For a hub-instance mmorpg I sometimes wonder if it’s not an open world.
This game got so many areas and sectors, going from South Korea to Afghanistan to USA to literally External Dimension.

Graphics :

Hard to say anything like this but the rating is nonsense. If you don’t believe me I can just show you because you’re severely wrong. But then again, same problem as for your World’s rating. Though, on this one, even the island area that you saw looks really good (not to mention the characters but you at least admitted they look great). Just that there’s much crazier and detailed designs out there.

Content :

Seriously?
Everything I said before should be enough.
More examples if it wasn’t.
Fly King, Lust King, Machine King, Beast King.
These 4 last raids we’ve got from Fantasy World: Dream Theater by themselves got 4 bosses each (4 different maps, different mechanics, music,..), including the core being the last you fight.
Then the training programs in every city, all the other end game content from maps like Ancient Dragon Historic Site, Planar Gate/Puri ops.. which are basically comparable to raids (they are, just old)
Yeah, I’ll stop there.
Wait, no.
Even events on Closers got their own stories, areas and sectors.

(1st section added) F2P/P2W :

If you are wondering, Closers is f2p. Unless you consider being in the top tcp (total combat power which is your overall stat) rankings a MUST for a f2p then I can’t help you (the rewards are not a must either but you’ll get something whatsoever even as a f2p you can still get good place on boards).
The only thing I recommend to pay for is the VVIP of the game, if you want to grind credits to buy many costumes especially. For a fashion addict like me, it is needed.
I consider p2w as paywalled content and Closers doesn’t have.
Closers raids do not have stats requiremements which means you don’t have to minmax to join end game raids, you only want one thing, the recommended TCP (at least be close), and you NEED two things : skill, pattern knowledge.
Everything you need gear wise on Closers to match recommended TCP, you can get by easy grind. End game will be much longer and heavy grind when you’ll go over the recommended tcp of the actual last raid though for example. But it’s still nowhere close to some grindy game like BDO or WoW lol.
Fanguides are on the Closers World discord so if you wanna start the game join it so you know leveling advices, how to gear yourself up til you reach endgame, and of course how to build/play your characters. You’ll also be able to find a crew there, so don’t worry 👍
Well, there’s also a lot of help that you can find in game, but it’s always better to talk with people.
Fyi, you don’t get gear items just from one raid, you get them all from different places.

(2nd section added) Devs – Community relation :

I want to add this section simply because I believe it’s important. Closers is one of these games where the devs – community relation is actually taken into account all over the world. For 6 main reasons that I’m gonna mention.
1. They do roadmaps, like this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQUUkGwkRTo (they even speak in english!)
2. There is a discord official server for the World server.
3. They do Q&As, like this –> https://www.closersonline.com/naddic_news/20221031-qa-with-the-closers-world-devs-answered/
The discord had a specific channel for it and everyone could participate.
4. There’s what’s called a Player Council in the discord.
5. There’s a channel exclusively for bug reporters, anyone can get the role and get access to the channel to report bugs.
6. The customer support is reactive and efficient.

Sorry if I’m being salty, but I really love the game, I follow it since a long time and Naddic rarely disappointed me. For a lot of reasons *, it is underrated and unpopular, mainly because most people don’t know about it, but the game is alive and doing well thanks to the developpers doing their best with what they have, it’s the only reason Closers got a niche but loyal playerbase, of course in Asia there’s much more players but there’s at least a thousand active players here in World server, and even more with private server. You could have made a first impression review, but giving such ratings with your knowledge about the game, I can’t take it.

*There was also the 2018 scandal because Naddic had a feminist artist and you know of feminism is seen in Korea, it’s getting SLIGHTLY better with the new young generation but that’s all. People left the game and when SoulWorker was at the edge of shutting down because of the release’s critical failure, Lion Games basically said feminism was bad and fired a feminist artist as well as deleted her artworks. Then people moved on SoulWorker. Despite the Closers’ feminist artist still working for Naddic, those same people are slowly coming back on Closers because of Lion Game’s CEO’s greed and I don’t give SoulWorker much time left considering the actual KR’s state.