Lost Ark is blowing up and I can totally see why

I love this trend of MMOs making you feel really powerful from the beginning. It’s so refreshing, and joyful. There’s none of this power austerity, none of this ‘yes you can be powerful but you’ll have to earn it, young one’. Games like Black Desert Online and now Lost Ark just want to be fun right away, and it’s great.

In fact, playing Lost Ark feels more like playing late-game Diablo 3 than an MMO – and I mean immediately. You immediately get several dazzling skills you can pulverise hordes of enemies with – and you do. You smash them up in the air, you crackle and fizz with lightning, and they pop like gory balloons around you. It’s brilliant fun.

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