Iris Online
Description: Iris Online Iris Online is a 3D MMORPG game made in Korea. Much like many other games made from Asian game developers, you can expect the visuals to be bright and colourful. As cute as the graphics are, do not let this fool you as being a kids type of game. What lies beneath the innocent looking appearance of the game is a very deep and enjoyable gaming experience you rarely see in other gaming genres such as first person shooter games.
Usually games that have great visuals like Iris Online, require you to have a very powerful computer and a lot of hard drive space in order to download it. This was the case with DC Universe Online so I decided to download that particular game on my PS3 instead. Unfortunately not all free to play MMORPG games are released on the PS3 so most of the time I have to use my computer. That is not to say my computer is weak, but it is no powerhouse either. Thankfully, Iris Online is able to run quite smoothly with a 1GB ram computer and it only takes 1.6GB to download. For those of you, who do not have powerful computers, you should have no trouble playing this game.
Before you can play Iris Online, you must first customise the playing style and appearance for your main character. There are three races you can choose from that include a Human, Elf and Hybrid. A Hybrid is a half human and half elf and has carries both the strengths and weaknesses from both races. Personally, I liked the Human and Elf characters more as they look cuter. The Hybrid character models look more like a butch female professional wrestler, although you have the choice of playing as both a female or male character in this game.
Upon finally choosing your character, you are prompted to take part in the lengthy yet fun tutorial mode. It is pretty humorous that this games tutorial takes place in a circus. Nevertheless, people who will play the game for the first time will instantly fall in love with Iris Online graphics. If anyone has ever played the Kingdom Hearts games for the PlayStation 2, Iris Online has similar visuals to those games. Not to mention the controls are comfortable and easy to use. You can use the keyboard to move your character around and the space bar acts as your jump button. I liked this control scheme although you can still resort to using the mouse all the time to move around. Personally, I feel using the mouse gets a little tiresome as you have to click almost every second if you want your character to change their direction they are currently going.
One of the most unique aspects of Iris Online is that you can actually turn into a monster. Each character has a set of tarot cards. Much like a fortune teller might do, you pick specific cards to choose your fortune. Once you have chosen enough cards, you can reveal the type of monster that you can turn into. At the start I was not sure what this was all about and started choosing any cards and turned into a tree like monster. Another player actually turned into a dog like creature which I thought looked a lot better than me. As you progress further into the game, some monsters that you fight will drop specific cards. This will in turn will give you better skills and hopefully turn into a better looking monster than the one I was.
The combat in Iris Online is fast and swift. You can even execute special skills that you can assign on your keyboard for your character to execute. The jumping feature in this game can come in handy if you want to avoid the swarms of monsters that are in this game. Although Iris Online still plays similarly to other MMORPG games in that you point and click on a specific enemy and your character will automatically start attacking. I prefer the more innovative style of game play where combat is more action orientated where the play can initiate combos like you can in a fighting game. Nevertheless, combat is still fun to do in Iris Online and we can thank that it is not simulated like another MMORPG game I played called Monster MMORPG.
Speaking of monsters in this game, Iris Online offers a lot of weird creatures throughout your adventure. Some of the first enemies you have to face include some weird mushroom-like monsters and even trees. As you progress further into the game and see yourself exploring more varied habitats, you will encounter even more unique yet greatly designed creatures. You can literally just spend hours and hours admiring the excellent level and creature design in Iris Online. There are a lot environments you will get to explore and all of them have their own specific music to accompany you on your journey. Quite frankly, Iris Online has one of the most beautiful soundtracks I have heard in a video game in a long time. The only thing that is missing is voice-overs, although not many free to play video games include voice overs anyway.
There is an unorthodox story also included in Iris Online. This is because your main character died many years ago when the evil Sahar Army invaded and killed everyone in its path. Its hard to understand what happened after that but somehow you have been reincarnated and will now try and get rid of the Sahar Army once and for all and avenge what they did to you can your people all those years ago. Its one of the first games I have played where the main character has been reincarnated.
People who love Asian developed MMORPG games will absolutely fall in love with both the graphics and game play of Iris Online. This free-to-play video game has high production values that put many full-priced video games to shame. Iris Online offers hours of game play full of many different quests where you can venture off and witness many different locations and encounter numerous wonderful creatures and monsters. If you are a fan of video games in general, then be sure not to miss out on playing Iris Online. Arguably one of the best free to play MMORPG games ever made.
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