Hero of the Obelisk, to most known as Hoto, is an MMO that recently went into open Beta, and by recently I mean three weeks ago. The game is a dungeon crawler that features a chibi art style made by Eyasoft. The overall art style reflects Eyasofts Luna Online, the predecessor of Hoto.
http://hoto.gbegames.com/screenshots.aspx
So you start up the game, log in, and hit the "Create" button. You're instantly greeted by the default character, a male character of the Swordsman class, hair 1 style in orange, and face 1 setting. On the left side of the screen you see the class stat base, description, and skill clips. On the right side, there's little window that reads, "Create Character" with three tabs inside.
The first tab is your class choice. Swordsman is currently selected of the three that are available. Swordsman is you basic fighter class, choosing either sword and shield or a two-handed sword as their weapon. Adventurer is your more dexterous class, being a dual-pistol gunslinger or a rifle wielding sniper. Scholar is your mage class that uses a wand and spell book or a staff. Under class you choose your gender, and under that your face style out of seven selections and skin color out of six selections. Face selections choose facial expression and eye color. After your face and skin you choose your hair style from the ten options they give you and your hair color out of the eighteen hair colors.
Now you've made your character and you're ready for the tutorial, which is optional. The tutorial teaches you the basic movements in the game, and gives you a necklace and some potions after completion, but isn't all that necessary since no experience is given.
You can move by point and click or with the w.a.s.d. keys. Q is your basic attack and auto target, since you need to target a monster in order to attack. The game starts you off with the "1" hotkey as the basic attack, but can be replaced with an actual skill, which are bought when visiting your corresponding class tutor. Portals in towns lead you to either the fields, a small map with ever-spawning monsters, or dungeon select. Each dungeon is listed by level for easier navigation, since the dungeons are mixed about on the to follow their terrain type.
The game is still working out features and updating often. Every week, they're increasing the level cap by five levels, making the cap currently 35, since they had started doing this last week. Other than dungeons and leveling, there's crafting and fishing. Guilds are always recruiting, and people can join parties during dungeons, if the party is set to allow it.
I'm sure I've said as much as I could about this game as is. It's possible I may have missed some details, but I've given the general idea of the game. If you want to know more about Hero of the Obelisk or want to download the game. Go to the link below, make and account and have fun.
http://hoto.gbegames.com/default.aspx
