There's a couple of new games I'm looking forward to. One is Asda Online (sounds like a gibberish name you type when you can't think of anything o_o), and the other is TwelveSKY Online.

TwelveSKY Online began operation supposedly on October 1st. They boast of its being a martial arts game, where you have different martial arts from various Asian cultures. But the website isn't complete yet, and there isn't much information regarding just how good this system would be. I'm thinking it might end up being something like Hero Online, based on the class system, where you can choose any of the three weapons per class, and your stance and skills is based on your weapon. While I didn't like Hero's system too much because it forced you into cookie-cutter skill builds, one thing that could make this system interesting is freedom of choosing what skills to get. So even if a lot of people have the same class and weapon, their choice of what skills they picked would provide for variety, and still make the game interesting.

I'll wait for more information to be posted on the website before downloading and trying this game. If it's just like Hero, there's no reason to play it, really.


Meanwhile, Asda Online, set to begin international operation in mid-October, sounds like a perfectly interesting game. The key feature that really caught my attention is what they call a Sowel system. The Sowel is short for "Sword" and "Jewel". It's not very clever, but the name isn't as important as what it does. The Sowel system basically allows you to wear anything you want. At character creation, you're immediately given an option to customize even your clothing. From my understanding, the Sowels are what you use to strengthen and upgrade your equipment. Every equippable item has 4 slots for Sowels, and you can attach and detach them whenever you want. So if you have a dagger that you want to have high damage, put in your 4 damage Sowels. If you suddenly decide you want to use the same dagger to help you cast more powerful magic, put in your magic attack Sowels. It's pretty interesting, because it means you really can wear whatever you want. Any armor, any weapon. And from the looks of things, you can play any class at any time. Just that advancing in skill points at a particular class will be harder if you keep switching.

I'm really looking forward to Asda Online. It looks like a game where you can just run around and cut monsters down, and have fun dressing your character up heheh.