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En Masse is to publish Kritika Online
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"En Masse Entertainment has big news for MMO fans today with the announcement that it will be launching action-MMORPG Kritika Online later in 2017 in North America and Europe." - Suzie Ford (MMORPG Feb 23, 2017)
This action based MMO was originally published by Playpark on June 8th, 2016. Playpark is a SEA publisher that also publishes Phantasy Star Online 2 and Maplestory for those regions. This game was developed by a small korean gaming company known as allm, a company where there isn't much I can say about because there is little to no information about them. All playable characters are not fully customizable and choosing one gives a gameplay similar to Devillian or Vindictus (giving players a limited selection to being unique while having a stronger background and personality to the character you play). The game gives a more Blade & Soul vibe when it comes to world exploration as it does have instanced areas and dungeons as you explore (which might require loading screens).
This game is to be added "later 2017" along side En Masse's current selection of PC games, including Alliance of Valiant Arms (AVA), Zombies Monsters & Robots (ZMR), and The Exiled Realm of Arborea (TERA).
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"En Masse Entertainment has big news for MMO fans today with the announcement that it will be launching action-MMORPG Kritika Online later in 2017 in North America and Europe." - Suzie Ford (MMORPG Feb 23, 2017)
This action based MMO was originally published by Playpark on June 8th, 2016. Playpark is a SEA publisher that also publishes Phantasy Star Online 2 and Maplestory for those regions. This game was developed by a small korean gaming company known as allm, a company where there isn't much I can say about because there is little to no information about them. All playable characters are not fully customizable and choosing one gives a gameplay similar to Devillian or Vindictus (giving players a limited selection to being unique while having a stronger background and personality to the character you play). The game gives a more Blade & Soul vibe when it comes to world exploration as it does have instanced areas and dungeons as you explore (which might require loading screens).
This game is to be added "later 2017" along side En Masse's current selection of PC games, including Alliance of Valiant Arms (AVA), Zombies Monsters & Robots (ZMR), and The Exiled Realm of Arborea (TERA).
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Probably I grew salty about it, but i remember. Lunia used to be my favorite game, because of its colorful anime graphics and arcade combo based action combat style. The customization in the game was HUGE, you could combine pieces of different costumes to make your own unique look, and the class selection was wide enough to choose what you liked the most. The game wasa bit p2w tho, you needed to spend some cash in order to be able to enchant your gear to the highest, otherwise you simply would end up breaking your gear
In the end, Lunia faced some major problems regarding hacking and network issues, that led to it shutting down. Unfortunately, Kritika was being developed as the constant hack attacks were happening. Allm confirmed they shut down Lunia because of the hack attacks, but they never said that the moment the attacks were happening, they shifted all of their man power to Kritika, leaving Lunia open wide and vulnerable to even more attacks. They never cared to do anything about their own game that was bleeding, instead, neglected it to go pamper their new game.
just my 2 cents, i loved Lunia and it was a sad moment to see it being shut down due to developer incompetence.
I also played a lot of Lunia, mostly due to the community though, so I was also disappointing they gave up on it for this game. Had played a lot of Asuka when she was added, liked her even though she was weak for most of her existence.
P.S. also testing my new phone straight from work
EDIT: Another one of the reasons of Lunia downfall, was the release of a new game with a similar concept: Rusty Hearts. The game had nice graphics, a nice story line and the same combo based action combat. PvP was incredible fun and the music was even better. Unfortunately, once again, this game was shortly shut down, due to months and months of neglect, no content updates and the publisher Perfect World Entertainment (PWE), now known as Arc Games, milking every single dollar they could with flash sales and their usual bonus zen sales before the announcement went live.
The PC version is more comprehensive than the Mobile version (cue AERIAL combat)
Kritika is semi action combat, in a sense that it is still half assisted, this makes it easier for people across the globe to play it. If you are used to Tera combat you won't feel out of place at all (you will find this easier actually).
If EME can keep the TERA concept of how they manage things (trust me it is already better than many other companies out there), they will see one additional person transferring from their local server (I play the SEA server at sub 10ms ping lol).
I literally live right beside the server here lol. (Within 10-15km from my place)
Also to OP the publisher is actually Asiasoft, whom us in the sea region call A$iasoft because of how steep they make cash shop items cost (estimated at least 1.5x on many items compared to NA counterparts) and still promote p2w concepts. Playpark is just a new platform they use to host the new games.
Due to complications I cannot modify my original post (mainly because my fear of it being taken down to be 'reviewed'). However, I went to do some research on this company you mentioned (since I'm not familiar with East Asian publishers) and found that Asiansoft is indeed the publisher of Kritika Online, but they also own 3 portal sites, one of them being Playpark... and because Playpark is more known as a publisher than a portal site, I believe it's best to leave it as it is. The publisher isn't incorrect because this is just a portal for them to display certain games, but I'm sure players will look at both your comment and mine to know how to direct themselves to the main company. Thank you for pointing that out though.
Will you guys release Monk class also or just the 4 classes? I'll switch to NA and not look back if you guys do.