Atlantica Online opens Van Gogh's Gallery, adds the Minstrel Paganini to their mercenaries
by Seraphina Brennan 
Sep 22nd 2009 at 7:00PM
Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Historical, Culture, Events, in-game, Expansions, Patches, News items, Free-to-play, Atlantica Online
When Atlantica Online adds a new update, you know it's going to be a unique tie in to the history of the world. This update is no different, as Atlantica adds a brand new, reality bending dungeon to their mix -- Vincent Van Gogh's Gallery.
Van Gogh's paintings have been collected by his friends, and have been put on display together in a local church. But, when the paintings start to react with one another and open doors into other dimensions based on Van Gogh's work, it's up to the players to find out what's going on and what drove Van Gogh to madness before his death.
Other aspects of this expansion include the addition of the Minstrel Paganini (the woman shown above), a brand new music wielding class based on the 17th century violinist Niccolo Paganini. The level cap is also being increased from 120 to 130, which also means that a few of your mercenaries will bet getting upgrades as well!
All in all, this looks to be a trippy addition to an otherwise solid free-to-play title. We applaud the use of Van Gogh's paintings as the new dungeon because, quite frankly, it's a pretty unique concept. Enjoy your decent into madness, Atlantica players! Don't cut off your own ear!
Van Gogh's paintings have been collected by his friends, and have been put on display together in a local church. But, when the paintings start to react with one another and open doors into other dimensions based on Van Gogh's work, it's up to the players to find out what's going on and what drove Van Gogh to madness before his death.
Other aspects of this expansion include the addition of the Minstrel Paganini (the woman shown above), a brand new music wielding class based on the 17th century violinist Niccolo Paganini. The level cap is also being increased from 120 to 130, which also means that a few of your mercenaries will bet getting upgrades as well!
All in all, this looks to be a trippy addition to an otherwise solid free-to-play title. We applaud the use of Van Gogh's paintings as the new dungeon because, quite frankly, it's a pretty unique concept. Enjoy your decent into madness, Atlantica players! Don't cut off your own ear!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MATT said on 12:04AM 9-23-2009
I've had this game installed for a few weeks now but still haven't launched it. Now I'm doubly excited to play it what with Vincent van Gogh being my favorite artist and all.
This song about him is one of the only things in the world that makes me cry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM
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Skuz said on 9:47AM 9-23-2009
Lots of nice bew content for the less than 3% of players that will be able to access this.
The game is just too dull & boring in the sub 100 levels for most to stick it out & see this, personally I have known a whole ton of people that were bored to death by 25 a few lasted till 50 but out of my friends I was the only one playing past 50 & by 68 I'd had enough, the stpry had run out of steam insofar as it was not engaging & compelling enough to me to continue with it, it's just too "thin" & "watery" it feels like the story was artificially stretched way way too far to hold as a string through the game.
I still pop in from time to time but the nerfs, increases on costs for f unctions for non item mall users etc are all bad for the games health.
My guess is that NDoors have made content for this less than 3% of the population for the last few months as they are purely catering to the segment of the playerbase that is paying.
And that's just narrowminded.
They need to add some spice in the 1-99 game, flesh it out more, make it more enjoyable because until they do they are losing out on people that could get to the higher levels & maybe invest...
As it stands, they are dying of boredom before they get there.
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Kalex said on 10:47AM 9-23-2009
I agree with Skuz... They have a nice working model, the game is really cool and fun to play. Turn based felt very refreshing in an MMO, and it's really fun to compile interesting teams. It's nice having a "stable" of players to kit out instead of your typical one.
However, it just doesn't get the hooks in and I got to about 50 in beta, and only made it to about 35 after the launch.
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