Free2Play with Cashshop system // It has been almost 2 years and a half now since Rappelz launched its service in North America. This game was a blast, one which could get me hooked for 15+ hrs a day playing. It has good graphic, characters look good and many are adorable with high level armors. Character animations also are smooth and appealing to the eyes. I also do consider its graphic to be on a par with Silkroad Online.

This game is called Rappelz [means Summon in French] because players can obtain pets and summon them to help in combat. I love Rappelz's pet system and consider it to be the best I have ever seen in MMORPGs. First, any player can obtain pets. Though most Classes can only use 1 pet, Summoner Classes can have up to 5 pets, and they can bring the most out of their pets too. Pets also are very useful and not just for decoration or proof of players' wealthy, though some pets look very cool. Many pets are capable of dealing damages, tanking, healing, buffing, debuffing and crowd-controlling. It's safe to say that a good pet is necessary to advance in this game. Pets also could become very strong, up to the point of much stronger than their owners, with how you equip them with weapons and armors and how you set their skills. As pets gain level, they advance, and could evolve into their higher form, we call this Evo1, Evo2, and Evo3 with Evo1 the youngest and Evo3 the strongest. They also become biggest (an Evo3 Yeti is about 4-5 times taller than a player) and better looking too. Players have control over their pets, and can command them when to attack which target with what skills or even having them running around in circles. If you would like to be the owner of cool-looking, strong and so helpful and useful pets such as White Dragons, Salamanders, Sirens, Pixies, Yetis, Orcs, Skeletons, Hawkmen, Harpies and more, then you have to try this game.

Be warned, however, this is a Korean made game with point and click movement system. It does get grindy at high level, and you would need to play it like a hardcore, or buy items from Cashshop to gain double experience points for some periods of times to advance further. It is also isn't easy to obtain pets. To obtain one by yourself, you need to be high level enough to mass kill lots and lots of monsters (same kind as the pet you want), hoping to get a Pet Card, which will be used to tame the monster into a pet. But the success rate of taming is considered low, and if it fails, you lose the Pet Card, and thus you will have to restart the process again and go back to mass killing.

Reviewed May 09

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