Online Game: Ghost Online

Let’s become ghost hunters and travel to the wondrous world!

Ghost Online, also known as Ghost Soul and GO, is a free fast paced action-based sidescrolling, massively multiplayer online role-playing game that is currently released in South Korea, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Malaysian-English.

It is the most popular game among teenagers all around Asia at this moment and is growing fast also in other parts of the world. It is so popular that it now also have it’s own fan site in English, found at www.ghostonline.org, although it looks like it is just starting.

In the game, players defend the “World” from ghost monsters and develop their character’s skills and abilities, as in typical role-playing games.

Although playing the game is free, many player appearances and gameplay enhancements can be purchased from the GhostShop using real currency.

Warriors can battle with a sword, a basic, melee weapon with high attack power, or a saber, another melee weapon with even greater attack power than its counterpart.

Fan users usually start out with fire-based magics, and staff users use ice-based ones. All Boss monsters carry some form of weapon with which they attack, and all are flying monsters. All the bosses in GO are all currently animal/human hybrids of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac.

Sword-type skills are more hit-and-target-amount oriented, Saber-type focus on utilizing the Saber’s status as the physically strongest weapon, and focusing the damage on fewer monsters, contrary to the sword’s.

Assassin: The Assassin class is the most agile and stealthiest class, opting to outmaneuver their opponents rather than attack bluntly.

A Magician may use a fan, the weapon with the higher magic attack, or a staff, the weapon with the higher physical attack.

The player can then choose to either become a “Warrior, “Assassin”, or “Magician/Taoist” from their respective job NPCs.

Lord Tai He and his apprentices rid the world of Demons, but Tai He had used forbidden magic that corrupted his souls.

There are different types of damage that can be done, such as Touch Damage (player receives damage upon contact), Attacking (monster has an attack skill, usually doing less damage than touch damage), and Ranged (monster has a projectile attack skill).

Different varieties of throwing stars (with different bonuses to player attack (ATK) power) are bought at stores, and are used up as glove-users fight with them.

(The warrior npc can be currently found at Sentosa Plains 2.)