Lost Ark is a bizarro action-RPG married to a trad MMO
Author: Jody Macgregor,
published 3 years ago,
Seven years ago I sat through an eight-minute trailer for a Korean game I wasn't sure I'd ever get to play. Its centrepiece was a wildly escalating demonstration of each class's attacks. An oversized sword exploded into burning chains, then the burning chains themselves exploded. Monsters were frozen, then shattered by a giant magic foot. There was gun-fu flipping, dragon-riding, and then the damn mech showed up with machineguns for arms. The first time I saw a monk in Diablo 3 materialize a church bell out of the sky then drop it on someone I laughed with glee. Lost Ark promised something like that would be happening once a minute... Read more.