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Quests

PvP

Fantasy

MMORPG
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Lunia: Record of Lunia War (often referred to simply as Lunia) is a 3D, isometric Massive Multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Korean company allm, and published in North America by ijji, in Taiwan by Chinese Gamer, and in South Korea by Nexon. Lunia`s global release is being run by CDC Games USA at their 12FootTall game portal, but has since been moved to ijji. The game aims to offer a new style of game play differing from most MMORPGs by mixing elements of action games and RPGs together.

Lunia, in contrast to many MMORPGs currently on the market, is played much like an action arcade game. The player is free to move around in-game using the arrow keys or a game-pad rather than a mouse cursor (freeing the user from the typical point and click method). Instead of clicking on an enemy to attack, varying attacks are launched by pressing combinations of two attack buttons and the space bar. The two attack keys act as a normal attack and a class-specific attack. The space bar is used as the down attack/finisher against opponents who are on the ground. Attacks can be chained together into combos, which are based on the timing, combination, and order of the attack buttons pressed. In addition, special skills and items can be assigned to hotkeys to be used more conveniently as separate attacks or in combos. Lunia does not restrict its skill hotkeys to the function keys (F1-F9) which allows the user to fully customize and adapt the game controls to his/her liking. The current maximum character level is 99.

Lunia offers several player versus player (PvP) arenas that allow 1 on 1 to 8 on 8 combat. Additionally, it offers 2 different types of channels, balance and free. Allm has stated plans to eventually support 16 on 16 matches. Some PvP arenas are offered seasonally like the unique Snowman Fight which allows players to don Snowman suits and fight each other with whimsical snowballs of various sizes and special effects.

Currently, Lunia`s English North American version features nine distinct character classes: the Knight (Sieg), the Healer (Eir), the Thief (Tia), the Wizard (Dainn), the Puppeteer (Dacy), the Combat Slime (Lime), the Templar (Krieg),the Ice Magician (Yuki), and the archer (Arien). Each of these classes offers a distinct play style. Character abilities can be customized through the use of skill points that the player earns when attaining a new level. CDC Games USA, the North American publisher of Lunia, has stated that more characters will be released throughout 2008 and 2009. New character is coming out in 2009 March and the name is Kali the Devil Bard.There is not a lot of information about her yet but some of the pictures of her using her music powers can be seen in "youtube" by typing Kali the Devil Bard.

Lunia: Record of Lunia War consists of a series of storyline "arcs," which are groups of 3 episodes that are tied together in a plot. Episodes are groups of 10 stages, which are the levels in Lunia. Each episode has a different setting, and the setting changes slightly about halfway through each episode. For example, Episode 1 starts out with the players traversing through plains, and later progresses into a forest. Episode 2 has the players starting on a snow-capped mountain traveling through a winter village, and eventually making their way into an icy cave. Each episode has a "Legend" counterpart, which is the "hard mode" of Lunia. While stages remain vastly the same in essence, the enemies encountered are far stronger and sometimes have new partners. Sometimes, even the boss fights are changed. Currently the North America version of Lunia has 6 episodes, which totals to 12, including Legend stages. However, the Japanese and Korean versions of Lunia also currently have 6 episodes. The 6 episodes are followed by Myth mode, which is a continuation of the story several years after the ending of Episode 6.


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