Nostale
Initial release date was in 2006.
Sounds pretty old for an MMORPG but Nostale compared to 2006 and 2016 is a completely different game. New updates, events, items, systems keep being realised. It's a kind of game that never stops evolving.
What Nostale has to offer? - It offers a lot and guarantees endless hours of fun, in Nostale there's always something to do and work on. I will list some to show an example:
Specialists: There's only 3 classes but specialists make up for that. Currently there are 8 specialists for each class. Specialist is in a form of card that you can transform into. For example Mage has the fallowing cards: Red magician - It tranforms you into a powerful fire magician. The holy mage - It transforms you into a supporter with heals, buffs, and cure. Blue magician - It transforms you into a mage that specialises in ice skills. The dark gunner - Specialises in curses and debuffs it casts powerful dark magic. It attacks with 2 guns.Volcano - It's a card with lava skills, it has powerful buffs and debuffs as well as attacks that will melt the enemy! Tide lord - Masters water skills. It can cast a powerful protection bubble, has defensive buff and many strong attacks. Seer - A dark sorcerer that has various skills like teleporting forward 3 times, debuffs, skill that transforms the enemie's damage into a healing effect, creating 3 clones. archmage - A card with powerful light damage dealing skills, teleport and one strongest healing skill in game. The goal is to collect all, each card offers different playing style.
PVP: Massive pvp ground angels vs devils ( 2 bases + 5 maps ), Arena 3 vs 3, it can be done 5 times a day and both winner and losers get a reward in a form of gold and exp, normal arena, family arena, battle potions (pvp on general map).
Balance between free players and those that pay: All item mall things are tradable and easy to access for free players as well. Best amount of gold is earned within a game without item mall.
Raids: Family raids (dark,water,fire,light), event raids (summer, winter, autumn - Roughly 2 raids for every event), regular raids (90+ raids = Kertos, Valakus, Grenigas / Angels vs devils raids = Zenas and Erenia / Raids to obtain specialist cards = Glacerus, Draco, Witch Laurena, Caligor, chicken king / Raid to obtain a partner = Namaju, Regular raids for lower levels = Mother of cuby levels 30-49, Xysen 40-59 levels, Dark castra = 50-69 levels, Namazayou 50-99 levels, Jack Spider 60-79 levels, Slade 70-89 levels) [NOTE: Higher levels can join raids for lower levels but they won't get the raidbox reward]
Mounts: Many awesome mounts to choose from that not only they look cool and increase movement speed, most mounts also have special skills that can be activated when you use speedbooster item (cheap and drops from monsters). Unicorn = Teleports to random location on the map, Flying dragon, Nossi= Removes debuff below level 3, Broom = Teleports forward, Blazing blades = recovers certain amount of hp and many more. :). [ Mounts without special skills = Carpet, scooter, tiger ]
Costumes: Many awesome looking costumes with various bonuses. There are costumes for 1 day, 7 days, 30 days and permanent. All for reasonable price. Some examples of costumes: Tiger, detective, rabbit, Bear, Lion, panda, sailor, santa, demon, illusionist, wizard. Costumes are divided into body and hat part, it allows you to mix costumes are create your own original look.
Partners: There are 3 types of partners you can have Long range, Malee and magical. Each type of partner can wear a special card to transform it into a powerful companion. Each card offers 3 skills that will be useful in battle - Offensive, debuffs, healing, buffs and special skills like teleport. You can obtain a parter either from raids or you will receive them at lvl 25~55 from time-space as you do quests. While cards can be either bought or obtained from event raids.
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And that's only a small part of what awaits you in Nostale. There's much more to discover.
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Now that we got over the positive side, it's time to mention some of negative points of nostale:
- Time consuming = To be a great player and get the most from the game it's needed to invest plenty of time into the game. It might be a bad thing for some people.
- 2D anime graphic = In this times 3D amazing realistic graphic is something common, that's why not everyone might like an animated 2D graphic. Although I have to say that for a 2D graphic it does really well.
- No auto-route = Maps and locations of everything are very easy to remember, plus there are teleports and shortcuts, but some players might still not like that.
- Playerbase = It's never stable. People leave, quit, come back, take breaks and new people join. Sometimes nostale seems overpopulated and at other times you feel like it's empty.
Overall I think that Nostale is a game for people with a lot of time on their hands in order to fully enjoy it. It's for players who want to improve and develop their virtual character in every way possible. By trying to make it good, great or even the best in some or every category.
8/10 - Highly recommended
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Initial release date was at. December 23, 2013. It's a 3D game with anime graphic. It hasn't been around for too long that's why it still has a chance to get better.
Cool features that aura kingdom has to offer:
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Negative points:
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