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                                                     About Reviews of Ragnarok Online
   It is been a productive few years for hack and slash RPGs. Typically isometric 3/4 top down games with real time battles systems, it is been argued time and time again in the RPG community whether or not these games are in fact RPGs. Regardless of the debate, North American games now have the chance to play Ragnarok Online with all kinds of ro zeny, a recently released hack and slash style MMORPG based on a released obscure series of Manga drawn by Myoujin Lee. Made by Korean developer Gravity, this MMORPG continues the trend of foreign companies making extremely popular online games of late. During the free open Beta test period that you do not cost any ragnarok zeny, over ten thousand people logged on the game daily.
   This was a change of pace from the last free testing period, where the game got no more than three thousand users, distributed over two servers. Soon after this latest period, on a week notice, players were informed that the game was going pay iro zeny to play again. I figured that I would stick with the game for a month to see if it coming out of beta had changed anything. Now that the month is up, I realize that popularity is not always an indicator of a quality gaming experience.
   For starters, the graphics are quite dynamic for the game which has been billed as an Anime themed MMORPG. 3D environments with 2D sprite avatars work quite well, both on paper and in practice. Xenogears would be the closest graphical example I can think of. Sprite animations are well done too, each type of weapon, daggers and two handed swords, bows and so on which can gain from cheap zeny, have a unique animation for every class and sex. This sounds fine, given the number of total classes, but there is still no remedy for seeing the same animation time after time, and it can get rather aggravating. Environments are passable, even with the large amount of reused textures, static water, and blurry edges on everything. All ragnarok online zeny has the end effect of making every series of dungeons or outdoor maps look exactly alike. Monsters often are reused sprites painted a different color. Often, a harder mob, as they are called, is easily distinguished by, say a new color, or maybe a super sized version of the original one. It is almost as if to save time, Gravity decided to reuse the first 25 designs they came up with to save work.