The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

[pokoko]

Cloudman said:

 

pokoko said:

I've only read chapter 1 but it was pretty good.  I'll read the rest later.

First, with the female character thing, I think it's saying that once the game has decided your sex, you can't switch.  My impression is that the camera scanned his body, determined him to be a girl (because he's feminine for a boy), so now if he started another character it would still be female.  Maybe.  The other possibility is that his character is a girl because his sister registered for him, but I'm not at all sure about that.

As for the Senses, I have a strong opinion about that.  I was an Alchemist in Ragnarok Online when it was an incomplete class.  It was SUPER hard to level, cost a lot of money at first, you could buy most of the things you could make in shops, and a lot of the stuff you could make required a lot of time and effort in gathering materials.  However, once I got her to level 92, she was a bloody beast when it came to guild wars.  By the time I got her skills up, she was making a lot of money.  She had little in the way of damage abilities but if you had money, her healing was unbeatable because of potion bonuses.  Best of all, she could throw acid vials which broke armor and defense.  I loved that character to death.  I used to get PMs because I broke so much armor.

So, yeah, I have some understanding here and I'm guessing a lot of those garbage skills won't be garbage at high levels.  Stuff like that happens a lot in MMOs.  I remember all the debates in WoW.  People would trash one skill, everyone would skip that skill, then one day someone would discover that it was actually fantastic in the right builds or that it scaled a lot better with high level gear.

Sweet! It's cool to know you've read a bit of this already. I figured it was a small title no one's heard of.

Yeah, on the girl thing, I read that part a few times and I was confused if the sister meant you can only play as girls in the game, or if that sentence was just translated wrongly. I dunno. That just really confused me after the MC's friend showed up and was a guy. It would be funny if the sister did make his character a girl as a joke.

Wow, your Alchemist character kinda sounds like what the MC is going through in the manga, except he/she isn't struggling as much to lvl up as your experience sounds like. I've never played an MMO, so I'm not familiar with any games that work like this manga, but I kinda would like to play one. It sounds pretty fun.

I'm almost certain the mangaka had a very similar experience to mine.  Some classes/skills don't shine right away while others are great at first but get left behind as you level up.  Support classes, like a lot of healers, will level slowly if they're alone but when they partner with someone with damage skills, the leveling up rate for both will be greater than the sum of its parts.  A healer plus a mage, for instance, levels up crazy fast in almost all games, though many games require a "tank" for hard areas.  Not many people like to play support classes but they are in HIGH demand in guilds and for groups.  Some people will pay a support class to join them.

Games like Ragnarok Online are the type you read about in a lot of manga.  It's Korean but it's everywhere.  I played it a long time ago.  This was my Alchemist when she was little.  World of Warcraft is a lot different and not really something you see in manga/anime.

As far as leveling difficulty goes, though, it's because my build was for guild warfare.  All her points were in Vitality, which boosted HP but did nothing for offense.  She was a pure tank that used acid to break armor so that my guildmates could take down opponents.  She was pure support.  I would usually team up with my friend's damage dealing characters to get EXP.