Good grief. It's a pretty good thing that I decided to try downloading Granado Espada again. This is one of the (if not the) most interesting and enjoyable MMORPGs I have ever played, and I'm only about 3 hours into it. The game itself has some very interesting and unique features, including but not limited to, the MCC (Multiple Character Control) system.

This is possibly the brightest single idea ever implemented in an MMORPG. It actually makes your MMORPG a non-single-player game. The system allows you to control more than one character at a time. There are simple and complex ways of controlling your characters, everything ranging from a simple press of the space bar to make all three of your characters attack anything they see, to micromanaging each unit so that they can be killing different things at a time.

The system gives the game a bit of a RTS feel to it. If you're good at micromanagement, you can fight monsters much tougher than you should be able to, and even survive swarms of enemies.

Another fun thing to note is that the female elementalist, which is my favorite character now, has a British accent, which, as I may have mentioned before, I find very sexy in women. It's good too, because most Korean-made games that feature character voices have either poorly recorded or unnatural-sounding voices, or voices featuring Koreans speaking in poor English. In this game, the voices (including the western accents such as Spanish and British) sound pretty natural.

The music is also wonderful. They have some stuff from SoundTeMP (the people who brought us the BGMs from Ragnarok Online), and other brilliant composers and musicians. The music can really set the mood for each area, and it doesn't grow tiring or mind-numbing even after listening to it playing in the background for hours (though I'd recommend lowering your sounds anyway, if you're gonna leave it on for hours).

Lastly, I found it surprisingly not as choppy as I expected, for a huge game with awesome graphics, textures and detail, and a minimum resolution of 1024 x 768 (a resolution that usually causes major choppy graphics problems on my low-end game PC; I run best at 800 x 600 or less). This is a major plus factor for the game, because even if they spent a lot of time working on making the game look good, they didn't forget about those of us that don't have monster PCs with the 2 GB or more RAM and the 256 MB video cards and all that.

Unfortunately I have to get to work, otherwise I'd be playing GE until the morning, or at least leaving the characters on to level up by themselves, which is an automatic feature (space bar, like I said). The downside to this is you can't pick up any loot, so if a rare item happens to drop from one of the monsters you killed this way while AFK, too bad. D:

Anyway I love this game so much. I give it a score of 6 out of 5 stars.