Rings around the Ragnarok

ONCE THE most popular PC-based game, Ragnarok Online has today morphed into a mobile version with a more user-friendly interface but keeping the same cute graphics and captivating sound effects.
Now called Ragnarok M: Eternal Love, it comes as an app for both Android and iOS devices. 
Google Play states that the Android version has been downloaded and installed more than a million times while the iOS version was named Game of the Day earlier this month. 
Like the original game, Ragnarok M: Eternal Love is an open world mobile MMORPG (massively multi-players online role-playing game). It is based on Ragnarok Online 2003 and has inherited the Ragnarok legacy that drew the attention of millions of fans around the world.

The game comes with new and fuller 3D art that enhances its classic style and has introduced beautiful designs for the cities of Prontera, Geffen, Payon and several others.
You can interact with many characters and pets and use gear to enhance their characters’ performance.
When Rangnarok Online was a PC game, players had to labour to battle monsters for experience points to increase the level and performance of their characters. Players also had to use their mouse pointers and a lot of key combinations to control their characters to attack monsters. These days the interface is optimised for touchscreen with shortcuts for easier game control.
The new mobile version makes the life of players much easier. For example, instead of having to kill massive number of monsters, the game provides a lot of quests for players to complete to gain experience points for levelling up their characters.
While carrying out the quests, you will get to learn epic stories within Rune Midgard through a non-linear narration. Each NPC character in the game has a unique story to discover. 
And instead of having to manually control your characters to do the repetitive tasks of killing monsters to gain experience points, you can enjoy the new auto attack mode of the game.
The auto attack mode lets you select the two skill you consider most effective for killing monsters on a particular map. Then, you choose the type of monsters and activate the auto attack function. You simply need to plan ahead on how to use the skills in the auto attack mode to best kill and to prevent your own characters from getting killed.
Your character can get killed when its health point or HP has run out after being attacked by monsters. In the past, replenishing the HP points was a big deal. You would need help from a character capable of healing you. But now, the game developer provides an NPC character at almost every map to “heal” you. You simply need to get to her in time before your character gets killed.
The game also provides certain types of “foods” for your characters to take to automatically replenish their HP points and SP points. The SP or spell points are used for casting magic skills. The foods can also replenish the SP points for you.
There are five different main classes of characters for you to start with, namely Acolyte, Archer, Mage, Merchant, Swordsman and Thief. Each class can be further developed into two higher classes. For example, the Mage can develop into a Wizard and later a High Wizard after the character has earned up to 40 levels of each job.

And the new game is actually a dual RPG system. While you are building a character like a Mage, the game also lets you build the experience of the character as an adventure. All game characters are adventures whose experience and levels can increase by earning experience points for finishing certain tasks. For example, when you meet a new NPC character or kill a monster or find a new map, you will earn adventure points for increasing the adventure level. When your adventure level rises up to certain level, you can perform some tests to increase the adventure class after which your character will have higher performance and more adventure skills for the benefit of the main character.
Ragnarok Online used to have game servers in Thailand but the Ragnarok M has global servers with a channel for players in Thailand.
The game is free to play. But you can buy premium service or game money currency, Zeny, and Big Cat coins from the global service provider via local partners, mobile operators AIS, dtac and TrueMove H and as well as Thai e-wall service providers, such as True Money Wallet, mPay by Razer and Rabbit LINE Pay.
When you buy a premium service for Bt279 a month, you will receive a lot of benefits. For example, you will get an extra auto battle slot for adding one more skill and your characters can level up much faster. The Big Cat coins can be used to buy a lot of things necessary for increasing your character performance while the Zeny can be used to buy items and foods for your character.
The game can be played on an Android or iOS smartphone or tablet. I tested it on iPad Pro 12.9 inch. The game ran smoothly and thanks to a large display like a real notebook display, the game was much easier to play as I could see all the details easily.

>> Seller: Gravity Interactive, Inc.
>> Size: 2.1 GB
>> Category: Games
>> Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
>> Languages: English
>> Age Rating: Rated 12+ for Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
>> Price: Free