I’ve been a fan of Mabinogi for over a decade. And while I’m still rather fond of its graphical style, there’s no denying that it could definitely do with an upgrade.

Which is what the devs confirm is the case, with Mabinogi’s game director announcing the “Eternity Project,” confirming that he believes upgrading the game’s engine to Unreal Engine 5 is a necessary improvement, and will allow for the studio to continue to maintain the game long into the future.
A lot of additions and alterations will be made to the game with this conversion, like the ability to go underwater, sail the seas. The only thing missing was a release date, which was purposely overlooked.

I’ve always been a fan of Mabinogi. I’ve included the game in most of my “top Anime MMORPGs” videos ever since first playing it.

Mabinogi is an Anime MMORPG that I’ve always enjoyed, that I’ve always had a lot of fun with.
This time was no different. I got to group up with a bunch of players, tackle various types of content and take some of the pets for a ride. Literally, at times.
I appreciate being given this opportunity to stream later content – content that I’d never had the opportunity to access when playing myself in the past due to time constraints. I also appreciate everyone from the community that joined me and maybe carried me just a little bit.

Mabinogi launches it’s Re:Zero collaboration event today, and it looks like there’s going to be a hell of a lot to do in it. Prepare yourselves Best Girl (and Ram) fans, because this event is active from today, August 9th until September 6th

There’s a daily quest to help Subaru deliver items to Rem and Ram, a weekly objective that changes every week the event is active and a spin to win minigame you can participate in every day of the event.

The event rewards list is massive, so I’ll give you a link to the post that lists all of them, here  but the “big” main prizes are a puck support puppet and Sword Saint Reinhard’s Sword.

Typically speaking, I don’t care much about the cash shop in game updates, however with this collaboration, you can get your very own Rem (and the other one no one care’s about) partner cards, allowing you to summon Rem or pink less good Rem for 180 minutes every day to fight alongside you.

Sale Dates: Thursday August 9th, After Maintenance – Thursday September 6th, Before Maintenance 

Rem Partner	Ram Partner
Price: 17,900 NX	Price: 17,900 NX

Partner Details

• Rem and Ram have an inventory size of 6×10.
• Both have a summon time of 180 minutes.
• Rem has the special skill Morningstar Swing
• Ram has the special skill Healing Wind.
• Rem and Ram give the same gift boxes as Maid and Butlers.

On top of that, as if having your very own Best Girl waifu (or the crap pink version) to fight beside you wasn’t enough, you can also get your hands on the  Patrasche mount for 14,700 NX

There’s also the Re:Zero gatcha box, which can net you grand prizes of clothing sets of the Re:Zero cast, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Each gatcha box will set you back 1,500 NX.

On top of all of that, you can also grab yourself a Doll Bag Gatcha for 4,900 NX, each with a chance of netting you some Best Girl, pink copycat girl, or Puck dolls, which offer you buffs for as long as they are summoned

So far, Mabinogi’s collab event is looking to be an awesome one, with Waifus that will fight beside you, epic fashion from the Re:Zero world, events, mounts and daily freebies to earn.

I for one will be checking it out just for Best Girl Rem, but what about you? Are you an Re:Zero fan curious about Mabi? Does this Mabinogi event get you curious about Re:Zero? Do you just not care? Leave a comment below or join in the discussion on The MMOByte Discord Server.

Mabinogi is one of the most unique looking 3D Anime MMORPGs available. It offers players almost unrivaled freedom to play however they wish and is generally accepted as being the “Ultimate Social MMORPG” by the creators and players alike. Freedom, amazing, unrivaled Anime styled graphics, and one-of-a-kind combat makes Mabinogi one of the most unique MMO on the market.

Anime is something I watch in my past time with my wife, Adrienne. We’re both fans of it, we both play Anime games, and we’re both interested in Anime merchandise.
We go into nerd stores and look at all the awesome Anime goodies whenever we go out to the mall.

So being as big a fan as I am, you’d think there would be an Anime MMORPG that occupies my time outside Overwatch.
I’ve played pretty much every Anime MMORPG there is to play over the years and out of that large selection – only a few of them left a lasting impression on me.

Mabinogi is one of those games.

Allow me to go over why that is.

There are three different races you can choose to play as when you begin creating your character.
Human, Elf and Giant.
Humans are fairly basic. Elves are essentially Humans with pointy Elf ears, and Giants are merely really large Humans. Your base statistics are also dependant on what race you choose – as each race has different sets of stats.
You have the option to play as either gender for all three races, meaning there are no gender locked races. Then – and this is one of the most unique features in the game.. you have the opportunity to choose your age.
Age affects not only your appearance, but also your stat gain. For example, if you choose to start off as a 17 year old, you will have the highest base stats but negligible stat gains over the leveling process.
The younger you are, the larger the stat gains per level – but then you also have to deal with being weaker at a lower level.
Although in the end, it really doesn’t matter what you choose since you end up Rebirthing back down to level 1 – your first playthrough, at least of the lower levels is vastly different depending on what you set your age as.
Finally, the character creation itself isn’t much to write home about.
Although a lot of options are locked to free users.. and I mean naturally, it is a Nexon game after all, you have a fairly decent selection of faces to choose between, hairstyles, eyes, and lip choices along with colors.
Additionally, there is a fairly significant amount of in-game customization of your character that takes place as well – the costumes are absolutely amazing to collect.
The amount of variance between characters once you get higher and further into the game is astonishing.

Unfortunately, this is where Mabinogi begins to show its age.
Mabinogi has a very, very unique combat system, see. The combat is tab-target, although Mabinogi tackles it very differently than traditional tab-target combat MMOs.
In Mabinogi, instead of just randomly clicking your skills – combat is instead about predicting what skill the enemy is going to use, and making use of your own combat skills to counter them appropriately.
The game employs a very tactical combat style – something you don’t normally see in MMORPGs, let alone games in general, which adds on to how unique the overall game is, requiring careful analysis and timing of what skills you ultimately use.
Now Mabinogi, unlike most MMORPGs that have a holy trinity of tank, healer, DPS, has none.
Instead of beginning the game as, for example, a tank, you instead take the time to level various “talents” – this games version of a class system, and become, more or less – a polymath. Similarly to Final Fantasy XIV.
It’s a very unique style of leveling, combat, and a class system I haven’t really seen before in an MMO.

As I stated above, the combat is tab-target.
It is very slow and feels incredibly dated. The combat, although one of the more interesting parts of the game, is also one of the major problems I have with it.
Yes, you have access to a wide variety of different talents. Yes, this gives you the ability to tackle various encounters. But it does not in any way detract from the fact that the combat is tedious to experience first hand.
Again though, this game is old and the combat is very dated – unless they overhaul it there’s nothing you can really do about it. Which is fine – Mabinogi isn’t known for its combat.
And it doesn’t take away from the other aspects of the game.

Again, there is no class system in Mabinogi.
Instead, the game utilizes a “Talent” system. They function similarly to classes and professions in traditional MMORPGs and are broken into two distinct areas: Combat Talents and Life Talents.
Combat Talents consist of: Close Combat, Magic, Archery, Battle Alchemy, Martial Arts, Music, Puppetry, Lance Combat, Transmutation, Gunslinger, Ninja, and finally Chain Slash.
Life Talents consist of: Adventure, Mercantile, Holy Arts, Cooking, Smithing, Tailoring, Medicine and Carpentry.
It’s honsetly a lot of fun playing around with everything and learning what you like and dislike about each Talent.

Mabinogi has quite the story.
And even with such a large story, the vast majority of people skip it.
Although admittedly I haven’t partaken in much of the overall story, I do understand that it has a strong emphasis on the Gods that exist in the world. And from what I’ve played through, I’ve enjoyed.
Which is an honest shame that people skip through so much. Especially if you play Vindictus – which has a connected world to Mabinogi.

Graphically, sure, Mabinogi can’t hold a candle to games like Black Desert, Blade and Soul or Final Fantasy XIV. There is no chance whatsoever.
Anyone that says the game is beautiful, comparatively, is either blinded by nostalgia or just biased.
Now don’t get me wrong – the game, for its time, and for its style, is very unique and pleasant to look at. Especially when you start engaging in and obtaining costumes.
Mabinogi has a completely unique graphical style that has never been used by any other MMORPG. It features hand-painted textures stylized with edge detection outlining. Truly, it looks quite impressive.
I can only imagine how it’d look if it were used again in 2018.

Mabinogi’s population is fairly limited. It’s been around for so long people have all but forgotten it.
It used to be a thriving game with a healthy population.
Nowadays, when there are better games, faster games, prettier games.. why would anyone want to come back to this? You know?
Even so, the game remains populated enough to retain multiple servers for people to play on and players in every single town I’ve entered.
Which is a testament, truly, to how good the game is. That people just cannot let it go.

Wow.
That’s about how I’d sum up Mabinogi’s world: Wow.
If you take a look at the world map you’ll see just how large and connected the game world is. The fact that it has been around for so many years and is still actively being developed should tell you how large the world is, and likely will continue to get.
I’ve never seen an Anime MMORPG come remotely close to how large this one is.

Since Mabinogi essentially offers players the freedom to do what they want – to live how they like – to play how they please, there is both an immense amount of PvE content, and simultaneously a very limited amount of PvE content.
You can spend all your time doing professions, fishing, exploring.
Or you can spend your time running dungeons, fighting monsters, and questing. Like you would in most games.
Honestly, being able to do whatever you want really is one of the main selling points of the game and always has been.

There are two forms of PvP in this game: Duels and Arenas. Duels function as 1v1 encounters between two separate players where Arenas function as larger battles.
Both are entertaining but PvP is almost frowned upon in the community. I never really understood why either when Wiggy and I have so much fun vsing each other.

It depends on what you’re looking for out of the game.
If you’re looking for a cute Anime MMORPG with a lot of freedom to do what you want – without having to spend day after day grinding, questing, trying to progress.. then yes, definitely.
If you’re instead after something fast and flashy, then no not in the least. That isn’t the kind of game Mabinogi is and again, that may very well be why it’s so underpopulated in comparison to larger titles these days.
Regardless, I enjoy it and I would still recommend it to anyone interested.

Operating System: 7 / 8
CPU: Intel Dual Core 2.5 GHz or AMD equivalent
Video Card: GeForce 7600 GS / Radeon X1300
RAM: 4 GB
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB

Operating System: 7 / 8
CPU: Intel i5 2400 or better
Video Card: GeForce 560 TI or better
RAM: 4 GB or more
Hard Disk Space: 10 GB

The ever-eternal Anime inspired MMORPG, Mabinogi, is finally getting a large new update – specifically targeting its talent system – the first update of this nature since July 2014. The new Chain of Destruction update allows players to gain possession of, and wield the new “Chain Blade” weapon, a weapon that consumes power – dark energy, as it were, from fallen enemies to unleash incredibly devastating attacks.

The Chains of Destruction update features a new hero, Eiren, an Ace Hero sealed away deep inside a dungeon. Being the only person that can sense her due to your dormant Sluagh spirit, you are required to awaken – and release Eiren from her imprisonment.

The Chain Slash talent features over 10 new skills for players to use and abuse, while adding the new Baltane Mission – requiring the player to protect the Avalon Gate alongside the Baltane Squires, along with Dorcha and Bachram, and several new systems.