310,000  current users with 43 game servers – that is an outstanding performance of the newly released cartoon style MMORPG – Luvinia Online, published by Simo tech in mainland China. Of course, the figure is from the “Official Website” and we doubt that always :p.

Before we get into the game details, let’s gossip about the company. Everyone knows that SNDA, largest game company in China has bought Aurora Tech in Chengdu. The rumor says that the leader of Aurora Tech has “escaped” from SNDA and made a new company called Simo Tech and they started to publish the new game called Luvinia Online.

Is that true? We don’t know yet but let us just regard this as a little appetiser before we get into the details of Luvinia Online(Chinese: ????).

As you can see from the screenshot above, Luvinia Online’s interface is just like other MMORPG’s, copying WOW interface. If you look closely you will find there are a lot of similarities with the icons used in WOW. The game is made from a 3D engine while zoomed into 2.5D views. It has solved the dizzy problems for some players. The whole game style is like a mixture of European and Japanese styles. We can also see some elements copied from Ragnarok Online, especially the profession settings, the maps and town names.

We have captured a lot of high quality screenshots in our testing machine but we don’t have them at hand. We will upload them to the next article on this game and explain them in more detail. We have reached lv. 20 and we haven’t found anything exciting beside the beautiful interface and skill effects. NPC and characters are really cute and we think this might attract a lot of girl players and RO styled MMO fans. But overall, from the official website’s introduction, this game is pretty plain and simple, with average MMO settings and features and we haven’t found out anything unusual yet. But it’s definite a game with all of the current popular settings.

If you understand Chinese, as always, please visit their official website for more details:

http://www.star07.com/