Alright! Argo Online finally came out! I finally get to play the greatest hybrid MMORPG the world has ever seen!
...What? Oh you thought I was gonna do a review for Argo? Well YOU’RE WRONG the games graphics are too epic for my laptop and I can’t even play the game. TEE HEE!
On a more serious note; assuming you’re still reading this, I started playing Iris Online, another game that recently came into Open Beta. It’s a “Gypsy MMO” involving Tarot Cards. The Minor Arcana cards are used to upgrade your weapons and armor while the Major Arcana served as “keys” which allow you to access specially designed dungeons. You’re one of many heroes who apparently gave his/her life defending this land in a war that happened a long time ago, but the monsters are back so the populace did the logical thing, and brought you back to life.
The game was made by the same people who made Luna Online, and if you remember what that game was about you know what to expect here: Anime graphics, too cute to kill monsters, and Characters that are so cute that getting a pantyshot from an elf is an instant…well guys know what I’m talking about.
They'll never know it was me thanks to this brilliant disguise: D
The gameplay is great and entertaining; the quests are the usual kill a certain number of these things or get a certain number of items from an enemy. I would normally have a problem with the gathering quests since so many MMOs have managed to turn them into grind fests, but Iris actually found a good balance so I’m willing to look past it. Sure the item drop rate ranges from 1/4 of the time to 1/3, but the thing is you only need 3-4 items to appease the sexy girl in a skimpy outfit that sent you out to get them in the first place. Also the game has no restrictions on weapons or armor, outside of the fact that each class has skills specific to certain weapons, but besides that you can use any weapon you feel like.
If I have any complaints about the game it’s the following: 1) If you enter the battle fields and you find yourself up against a team and they have less people than yours, the game fills the void by adding in a number AIs until the teams are even. These AIs are the definition of OVER POWERED; if the other team has so much as 4 of these suckers they can kick back and relax because your team is skarude, and 2) The Invisible Walls in this game work TOO well. Sure I’m grateful you blocked me from walking over a cliff into a dark abyss below, but what’s the point of having a jump key if you can’t jump over anything?
Selfish complains aside Iris is a great game that anyone (and everyone) should try. It gets an 7 out of 10 because although the game is good it’s not perfect and it just hasn’t gotten to where it needs to be for an 8 or a 9
