WHY TORAM?

Hello Guys,

Warm Regards,
I'm one of kind of people which you maybe can called me as a standard gamer. In all my life i've been playing quite a lot of things especially RPG's from console, handheld or PC games. I think i've lost count thou LoL ( Suikoden series, Star Ocean series, Final Fantasy series, Jade Cocoon series, Castlevanias (the ARPG one), Dark Clouds, Monster Rancher aaand for the PC / MMORPG is Ragnarok Online, Rising Forces, R.O.S.E, TS Online, World of Warcraft, Rift, Archeage and many other games which i couldnt remember thou, im getting old for christ sake (   T.T)). Im not the type that grinding pretty crazy, but im the type of player who likes to analyze gameplay, enjoy games as normal or compare games for their pro and cons.

Many smartphones games of MMORPGs or the most popular genre nowadays which i called "The Gacha Styles" ( Seven Knight, Brave Frontier, Fate, Etc ) is pretty BORING as hell. Why? here's my reason :

A. Pay To Win, (DUH!) well i know every game is this way because this is how developer and publisher makes money, but dont get me wrong. This "Gacha Styles" games nowadays are pretty boring as hell because every new character they make is moar, moar, and moar ( not just more anymore ) POWERFULL as hell compared to their first batch of characters when they launched for the first time. Not just for PVE and PVP, but also for RAID and other uses which is makes no sense. In shorts if you want to stay at PVP, PVE, RAID ladder or any ladders, you have to get that character or items. Congratulations! now you've become their money bag and fodder for the PTW players.

B. Daily Quest as your daily workouts, most of the game nowadays are giving petty reward for daily, weekly, monthly or event quest. You can play as long as you want, online few hours just to get the quests done oooor online a few couple of hours in a day ( while wake up, breakfast, lunch, working, school, etc) just to get the quest done! i've done it and it takes toll on me and my smartphones. Its like you condemned to play it forever without chances to get what you want. What? you dont want to be a winner? champion of PVE? champion of PVP? nonsense. I think everyone who play games know one thing, chances to become Champions or be the winner, this is why we play games ( or just get the storyline done / secret of the game ). It's a pretty waste of time and even your normal lives will be worth more.

C. Smarthpones MMORPG/RPGs nowadays are mostly boring or just duplicate of another game, auto questing / auto pathing to npc or hunting ground / auto attack / auto report. WTH? im playing games not just turn my smarphone on just to play with himself. Most of them are now duplicate of other game but with different sprite / pixel or just polished with better graphic. WTF?!

D. Most of MMORPG/RPG on smartphones games are class lock / gender lock, not many smartphones game offer player to customize their equipment, appereance or even face, Well some did, but the preset is pretty small in numbers so what we will play will be "Army Games" ( I called it "Army Games" because the character faces & end game gears is pretty much the same for everyone else as standard. Dont believe me? just see Rising Forces that is one of the kind of Army Games which i mentioned ( Warrior Gear same weapon same armor, Mage Gear same weapon same armor, Ranger/Gunner same weapon same armor, Bellato Armor RIder? the exact frikkin same for the rest of the player ). I just happern to take example from PC games, but its concept are pretty much the same. Well that gameplay doesnt suit me, dunno about you thou.

E. Limited Customization, still pointing from point D thou but from different angles. Much game from smartphones are limited in data size because of the sizes availability on it memory capacity which is less that PC/Console/Handhelds ( cant have 30Gb game on smartphone do we? ). Makes any smartphone games are limited both in gameplay,design and concept. So it will be the same kind of game with different title, everytime a new game was launched. Mostly...

=======================================================================

For MMORPG at mobile games / smartphone, Toram Online is one of the many things i've quite enjoying to play for my spare times. This is for PRO and CONS from my opinion:

PRO :
- Skill Customization, you can create any skill combination from offered skill variation warrior with healing? warrior mage? tank mage? kungfu mage? magic bowman? tank bowman? magic assassin? you cant create any of that as you like.
- Main Quest & Sub Quest, the quest are just divided into 2 just like on WOW. Main Quest open availability Main Story Boss and Dungeons, while Sub Quest gives you more EXP bonus and item rewards. Even some Sub Quest items are able to be traded at Auction Houses ( here they call it Consignment Boards ) so its your decision to leveling from money or just grinding.
- Customizeable Almost Eveything, yes you read it right. Like WOW you can customize your character faces, weapon and armors appereance, status, color with some requirement of course.
- Customizeable Interface, Shortcut & Combo (Macro), in most smartphones MMORPG skill slots are pretty much conquering your screen. In here you can customize what should and what nots, in additions they have combo system which make skill can be consecutive casted.
- Open World, like most MMORPG it is.
- Rooted Smartphones cant play this game, well i think this is a pro because if phone was rooted than you cant login into the game which is pretty convenience to block hacker / cheater from the game thou. Even if some can do it than just a matter times before it get caught by the game master.
- No PVP, i dunno if i can call this as PRO but as far as i seen the players itself are pretty stable in numbers and even thou no PVP the PVE is crazy as hell. No PVP in my point of view is making the game more less habitable by cheater, cuz most of cheater are cheating just to win in PVP mostly just to prove they are better then everyone.
- Good Graphic & Good Game Design, while the 3D isnt very smooth as other games but its enjoyable with japanese anime style graphic.
- Premium Currency is obtainable, yes you read it right. With some requirement thou from prize or rewards. 
- Solo Party & Mercenary, you can make your own solo party which include of your controlled toon, alternative toon & friend toon ( mercenary ). So you can leveling on your own without depend on other peoples. The downside is they only can be attacking enemy that you are targetting, no AI or script to use their skills.

CONS :
- In Game shop sells Power Up item and Cosmetics item, althou some are godly most of them are hard to get. Even powerfull power up items still make you cost much money to get.
- Character slot, Bag & Item Storage are limited, typical game nowadays but with free premium currency you can solve this problem earlier (if you arent use it for gacha) .
- No Auto Play, i think it is cleared as it stated right? if you were AFK for 30 minutes, you re gonna be kicked from the game.
- No Mount, yep you read it right LoL
- Money (Spinas) are hard to get, this game is quite like Ragnarok Online to get money you must sell items from mob you've been hunted (kill mob doesnt give you money). Fortunately most item are used for craft something.
- No Whisper / Post Massage, not implemented yet. The only way to post messages on someone are if they are your friends or in your vicinity / near you (open menu).
- Damage Drop Off Calculation, will be explained latter on my blog. The simplest explanation is the same kind of attack is make the damage done is lowered, but reset the resistance each 6th attack done ( there's formula for it ). I think this is to prevent auto attack bot.
- Known bug for targeting dead mob for a few second, when kill mobs there's a chance that the targeting crosshair are locked into the dead mob/enemy if you arent manually targeting (use auto targeting). I dunno if this to prevent bots too.

Well, there you go. Hope you enjoy the game too.
Sorry if there were any mistakes.

Here's some review from another people :
http://2p.com/41779610_1/Toram-Online-Still-the-1-MMORPG-for-Mobile-by-MFGLife.htm
https://mmos.com/review/toram-online
http://aikagames.com/review-game-rpg-toram-online/
https://www.mmoreviews.com/toram-online/