Tree of Savior

Tree of Savior is a Korean developed MMO that's set to release sometime this year probably.
Now wait a minute you're already thinking "What's the big deal about a Korean MMO? They're all grindy and boring, they're all the same!" And this game is the same, but in a very different way.

Queue in Ragnarok Online.




This game means nothing to you if you didn't play it, but for any of you that spent your younger days playing it, you had delved into a large and convoluted game rife with complicated mechanics to avoid and exploit.
Maybe you attained the coveted instant cast, trained your homunculus, defended powerful attacks with immensely powerful armor or ruined those high HP paladins with a simple throw of an Acid Bomb.

Ragnarok had a massive wealth of private servers. The game spawned a few spinoffs of its own, and it was often praised for its soundtrack and great amount of freedom in playstyle. It ruled in an MMO market of 2D graphics. Unfortunately for it, 3D was just around the corner. Nevertheless people loved their 2D sprite characters, and always hoped for a sequel to the game they loved.

Ragnarok 2 never happened.


So we all let it die in our dreams, forever locked away in the past. Why does all this matter? Because Tree of Savior is the Ragnarok 2 we always dreamed about.

(if you think the music sounds nice and familiar, you might like to know ToS has some old Ragnarok developers on staff)

Create walls of ice and fire. Charm the local monsters. Command plants to attack your foes. Guide your allies with well devised party formations. Telekinesis. Time magic. The options are vast.

"Why tell me about this now? The game isn't even out yet, it won't come to my country in years!"
Well, the English beta will actually start in just a few days. We're likely going to see an international server spanning multiple countries, barring a few who have exclusive deals.

How are the developers going to handle all these languages?
They won't be. The community will.

github.com/Treeofsavior/EnglishTranslation

A built in tool for the community to easily translate text on the fly. Users can share their language file which IMC will then distribute officially. Tree of Savior can support as many languages as the community desires.

Tree of Savior isn't being advertised as a "Ragnarok 2" or a spiritual successor. It's being labeled that way by the fans, and is gaining hype through the nostalgia of those fans. There's only one way to tell how much that nostalgia is worth, but it seems there's hope to be found. I'm personally very excited for the game (if it wasn't hard to tell). I hope to be sent a notice for the beta tomorrow, and that all my dreams will come true (maybe that's too tall an order). I haven't even begun describing all the things I'm excited about in this game.