Trickster Online Finally Out

Posted by Albert Lai Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:40:00 GMT

By the gods, Trickster Online is finally out.

The spiritual successor to other popular online MMOs such as Maple Story and Runescape, Trickster Online has entered the beta stage of what many hope to be the beginning of yet another free online RPG. But what, you ask, makes Trickster different?

For one, it’s been delayed from the original start of the open beta (July 10th) to this morning, ensuring that most of the people interested in another MMO would’ve heard of this. In addition, it requires the player to log in the Trickster website (Internet Explorer only!), and launch the game from there due to an enigmatic control called Single Sign On which lets you play any of the games sponsored by GamenGame . In case you really got bitten by the MMO bug.

Anyway, the gameplay itself (or the portion that centers around fighting) is a tile-based isometric system that operates in real-time. As one of eight different character classes (Two for each ‘archetype’, such as the Magic Type, Power Type, etc) you fight monsters, go through quests, yada yada yada. It’s pretty unlikely that the basic system is unfamiliar to most players.

In addition, experience can be gained through card games, or drilling for items, enjoyable sub-games that can be a break from quests, some of which are repeatable. Crazy.

Right now Trickster Online is in a ‘Closed Beta’, but from the wording on the official site, it seems rather as if the game is in a open beta, just that the amount of simultaneous players that can be logged in is, er, in the thousands. At least you can try, right?

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  1. anonymoose said about 2 hours later:

    kinda stretching the definition of “independent” there, aren’t ya? :)

  2. Albert Lai said about 3 hours later:

    Yes. Yes I am.

  3. NHP said about 5 hours later:

    IGF considered DOFUS as indie as well. so what’s wrong with having trickster on TIGS?

    an eye for an eye. plus we didn’t start the fire.

  4. Moose said 4 days later:

    “They can be distinguished by their hairstyle as Miranda, the older one, has an updo while the younger one, Mirabo, lets her hair down. They are both dressed up as parrots to reflect what they do.”

    Just.. wow.

  5. Moose said 4 days later:

    Oh, and the classes:

    “Basic Job (schoolgirl/fighter) Skill”

    “Basic Job (Model/Student Teacher) Skill”

    B-buh…

  6. Ryan said 12 days later:

    JUST REMEMBER! You need internet explorer 6, not 7! IE 7 will mess up the game, visit tricksteronline.com for info on this.

  7. MegaStryper said 9 months later:

    I run Maple Story full version on Linux BackTrack 2. I am using Wine emulator.

  8. MegaStryper said 9 months later:

    About Maple Story run very well on Linux to get Maple Story on Linux you need download from here www.maplesea.com you can find the full version of Maple Story.

    Then download the .exe program and then save on the desktop and run in Wine.

  9. d4n13l said 10 months later:

    wtf is this lol…

  10. Katelin said 10 months later:

    MAPLE STORY ROX!!!!!!!!!!!! but trickster is better…

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