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Category: Reviews Posted on 2009-04-25 05:42:06 Add to Bookmark

Luna Online is another MMO published by the people at gpotato who were known for bringing you Fly for Fun (Flyff) and Rappelz. Luna is their newest game that is suppose to focus on the player development rather than the game itself. This has been done before and it usually hasn't worked out well because it fails to live up to its expectations. The game's advertisement is very misleading. This game IS NOT a closed beta. It advertises itself as a closed beta but if you complete the survey on their website after registering an account, you will be granted access to the game.

Story:

Something about elves and humans. They're 2 different species of people that are pretty much only differentiated by pointed ears at this point.

Graphics:

The graphics are suppose to be a cute cartoonish style reflective of games from a while back. Character creation has a good number of hairstyles and faces to choose from. This game uses SD (Super Deformed) type characters to break away from realism. This is something that I don't really like. Monsters are also repetitive. Recoloring and resizing of monsters is frequent. Skills look fairly plain. There's nothing spectacular and some of them look very simil

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Category: Other Posted on 2009-04-08 09:52:17 Add to Bookmark

This leveling guide is based on my own experiences. Its different from player to player but for me, this is what I like and I tend to always be in a party. The general idea is to follow where the quests bring you. It recommended to party as much as you can because you get more experience and use up less stamina points. Partying is always better than soloing because experience is divided to all your mercenaries. Questing will provide you with most of your experience until level 95. Its been a while since I've played so I started over again with a new character. This time I can go into more detail and revisions will probably come in the future if I ever decide to make that maniac. Keep in mind that this guide is written from my experience as a PvE focused Sword, Staff, Archer, and Musician main. This will most likely be divided into 3 parts. Level 1 to 60. Level 60 to 95. Level 95 to 120.

There is an absurd experience requirement increase at level 95. At level 95 your first 3 quests will give you a 1% bonus towards your next level no matter what quest it is. Keep this in mind so you can manipulate this by completing only 3 quests a day then farming for the rest of the time or fr

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Category: Reviews Posted on 2009-04-08 05:45:37 Add to Bookmark

I know I should have gotten to doing 5Street a while back but unfortunately I haven't gotten around to it. So instead I decided to do a more recent one. This one is called STEPS and for some reason they like to use it in all capitals. To dumb it down as much as I can, its an updated version of Audition with improved graphics. I had half completed my 5Street review a while back but decided to scrap it because it was just me ranting on about how much it sucked for 3 pages rather than providing a good review and never got around to doing a proper one. Just to show how lazy cubizone is, all their games use the same launcher with a different skin.

NOTE: I hate cubizone. All of their freaking games revolve around large item mall transactions and its basically impossible to survive the game without them. Its like playing Perfect World without auto potions. You can do it but it'll take much longer and be pointless because you can't do much of the game without them. Item mall currency in STEPS is called R Coin.

NOTE2: DDR = Dance Dance Revolution

Story:

N/A – No story. You just get in and start dancing.

Graphics:

The graphics is an improved version of Audition. It tries to maintain tha

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Category: Other Posted on 2009-04-07 09:41:05 Add to Bookmark

My angry STEPS review coming soon. Just thought I would do this before I did the review itself.

One of the most consistent problems that I have seen in all of the dance games I have played so far is the pure greed of the developers. 5Street, Dance Online, Steps, and even Audition suffer from this. The only exception to this so far is Nurien which is still somewhat fresh in the Korean market but chances are it will never touch Western shores for years to come and if they do, it will probably be subject to the same as the other dance games. The dance games are like a cash cow. You only keep it for as long as you can milk the money from the consumer base. Once you can no longer do it, you just ignore it and hope it pays for itself.

Almost all of these games suffer from the same problem. The lack of sense of progress. In a traditional MMO there's something to work for and accomplish. Unfortunately, the greediness of the game developers destroy the game itself. The focus of these games tend to be the fashion but the problem is that people can't seem to be able to work towards anything. 90%+ of items are only available through the item mall. The non item mall clothes disappear after

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Category: Other Posted on 2009-04-03 05:47:21 Add to Bookmark

This is a short guide to all the mercenaries so far in Atlantica Online and their skills and stats. Its just a pointers guide really. Mercenaries are graded on a scale of 10. A 6 to 7 is around average while anything higher is good and anything lower is bad. All stats are based on level 100 upgrades. Northern Viking and Dark Archer will have higher stats than stated here because they will have an extra upgrade available through the quests.

 

The rating assigned to these mercenaries are based on my own experiences and observation. If you think you can do better with a different set up then do it. Although its tempting to make a focused group of say 6 Swordsmen, its best to diversify your set up. This guide is in no way for creating entire set ups. It is for establishing a base and a general idea of what each mercenary is for in order to help you create your own formation.

 

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The following is some basic information

-All new mercenaries start at level 1 regardless of what level you obtained them

-Mercenaries can be upgraded at level 20, 50, 80, and 100.

-Grade C and B mercenaries are limited to 1 pe

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