Vindictus is an action MMORPG and a prequel to the popular MMORPG Mabinogi and is known as Mabinogi Heroes in Asia. Vindictus takes place in the same setting used in Mabinogi, but is placed chronologically several hundred years prior to the first game during a period of war and strife. Vindictus follows Nexon's traditional free-to-play model. The game itself is free to download and play and charges no purchase price. The game contains a virtual item shop to purchase in-game items with Nexon's virtual currency called NX to enhance the player's character's appearance and abilities. Also, the game has only several, pre-made, gender-locked characters representing the different classes. The game doesn't have a big persistent world, instead, it is instance based.
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the world if this game was an offline singleplayer/co-op experience instead of a live service mmorpg
anyways, I had a lot of fun with this game in middle school and Kai remains one of my favourite ranger classes in video games to date just because of how fluid his combat is. Also? I actually started paying attention to the story at some point and. Let's just say the Inn music makes me really fucking sad now.
Stopped once I got to S3 content because my friends had completely fallen off of it and I didn't want to shell out the money needed to continue playing this game solo.
On the story side of things it mostly played out as a visual novel with a digital oil paint art style and took heavy inspiration from Irish lore.
It was a fun enough game to play as a dungeon crawler with friends, but unfortunately it suffers from a stupid thing that it seems a lot of MMOs and online RPGs do, and that was the fact that the early chapters got nerfed hard, and the story up to season 3-4 is now way too easy and kinda boring.
It's still got a fun combat system and is worth investing some time into with a couple of pals, especially if you like other character action games, or dungeon crawlers like diablo. But the first couple chapters with be stupid easy, with a sharp difficulty curve on chapter 3. Honestly I don't know why games like this nerf their early story stuff, if you want to get players through it so they can join the vets, just make a referral program to allow them to make a higher level starting character if they have a friend at that level for crying out loud.
I also believe this game was developed on the Source engine, which may be the cause of a few connectivity bugs, but its a good engine and I wish more games used it.