Asda Story is a Free-to-Play, casual, anime-style MMORPG. It was released first under the name "MicMac Online" in Korea and Japan in 2005/2006, and was later released in 2007 as "asda story gold" by game&game. This is where my asda story gold experience began. This version was shut down, like many games game&game brings us.  the game was re-released by GamesCampus. When I found out one of my favorite games had been re-licensed, I jumped right back on the bandwagon.

I was not disappointed. A year has passed and I am still playing.

 graphics & interface

Graphics are a big deal in any game, and the graphics are what first drew me to asda story gold.

The first impression most people seem to get about asdastory gold  is that it looks like Kingdom Hearts: big shoes and goofy clothing. The graphics are not ground-breaking, but are quite good for a F2P game. A shader was recently added which makes the game much shinier. If you don't like the new shiny asdastory gold, you can just turn the shader off. There is also a glow effect which creates a slightly softer, more vivid environment.

The interface is pretty easy understand and is not too cluttered. Most things are movable or collapsible, but it may be difficult to deal with on small screens. For most windows there are hotkeys which you can set. A versatile chat system has been added recently that allows you to create your own chat tabs and choose what types of chat to show in them.

Why not a full 10/10? The graphics lack some options, and occasionally there are bugs. With the water reflection option turned on, at some angles your water will be black. There is no anti-aliasing option, meaning the graphics always have sharp edges. There are no quality settings for any of the graphics either, but this may not be a big deal considering the already simple graphics. That may even be a strong point for some, as the game does not require an amazing graphics card to play.

Interface-wise, the new chat system contains a very annoying bug that makes it so the chat will scroll even when someone speaks in a channel you have hidden. This almost defeats the purpose of the new chat system. One last minus I give to the interface/handling is the fact that you can only have one hotkey set shown at a time. You can have 5 hotkey sets with F1-F5, but switching between them is a hassle in battle. At higher levels you may find yourself wishing you could have extra hotkey slots by doing ALT+1-0 or CTRL+1-0 like many popular games have given us.