You see, I having never played ragnarok (however my friend played it and HE said it was a rip off of an old mmorpg he used to play and thought it was bloody cheek creating a subscription fee for a game like ragnarok) will now give an unbiased opinion:
Graphics:
All in all quite good, cutesy creatures fit the anime theme, however the what I truly hate about the graphics, is that the armour all looks the same (just the armour, not hats etc) which to me is a huge downpoint if in pvp, as you cannot judge how good your enemy is, until he starts raining fireballs on top of you while you cower behind a corner. Also I do like the rotation ofd the camera, as in side veiw you really do look like a cardboard cutout, and your characters rotation isn't smooth.
Overall a 7.5/10
Sound:
While there is an oriental theme, the loops of the music really bugger the gameplay, so I decided to listen to my own music instead, also your characters fighting sound retarded. end of
Overall a 5
Gameplay
Nothing special here, just a normal mmorpg, skills and so on, I heard people saying leveling is too repetitive and long-at least to me it isn't as crap as the button tapping, repetetive motions of ms or the easy leveling of piratekingonline, which you can power level to 50+in a few days. The skills look quite cool, and I like the way you have to buy skill books, why? Because then you don't get people on tutorial island using fireball and so on. The exp loss when you die...well I cannot say that is not annoying, but come on there has to be a penalty when you die! Also a double thumbs up for the choosing your own respawn point
Overall a 8
Story
A compelling story, is that of water margin, based on the famnous novel it has to be, now before you cringe, I'll explain. The novel is amazing, the story in the game is great, flowing and so on, the translations are rubbish, but do NOT diss the story becuase of your ignorance. Put some more effort into the game
Story: 9
Translations: -2.5
Community
W/e people say I cannot say I have seen more hackers on water margin, than I have on ms, just look at the chat channel on ms
"ZOMFG hacker on channel 13!!!!!!!" is a regular message I see. However I agree that the English speaking communtity is $£"*, it really is, as for people saying the game is getting less popular, maybe for the english speaking community, however for the asian side, it is blossoming-as my cousins in China play it (with almost their whole school). In other words-COME ON ENGLISH-SPEAKING PPL, YOU HAVE TO PULL THEC COMMUNITY TOGETHER!!!
Overall a 4
Overall mark I would give it a 7 out of 10