I first saw a small animated stint of Ragnarok when Level-Up was promoting the game in Ais Pacific College. The displayed it on their laptop and in my opinion it looked great (although scenes from .HACK//SIGN did show up in my head once in a while). The animation ran for about 60 seconds but it showed almost all the character classes: A female swordie (uber cool looking chick), female wizard, female theif, a male blacksmith, a male archer, male acolyte and a male novice. Obviously, the novice seemed to be the central character. I dont know (maybe the action scenes were too fast) but i didnt see any assasins or merchants.
I thought it would be the same characters and art style but i guess they decided to change it a bit.
Checked out the site, all i can say is... thank God for
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