A ripoff. Incredibly fun, nice graphics, but very little substance. A world run by only those who have enough money.
Rakion has a set gender system, where males can be Swordsmen or Blacksmiths. Females can choose Archers and Ninjas, while a 5th class... the Mage... appears to be omnisexual.
Each class differs as usual in it's role to the game, but regardless of choice you will have the option of hyping any one of them to the level of their counterparts. For example, it's quite possible to have a Mage that behaves like a Ninja. While this may seem convenient, it's actually not, mainly because the classes have a set of combos and moves specifically for their genre. It's not going to work out so well when our Ninja Mage can't do damage with his most powerful fireballs now is it?
Fighting it Rakion is certainly all it's chalked up to be. You are granted a series of moves when you join that cannot be altered at any point, but as I mentioned are unique to your class. Rather than auto attacks, you actually have to read what your enemy will do next and then block, jump, swing, shoot etc. It feels and looks like a real battle.
Apart from fighting other players, you can created several team-based strategy rooms where you fight alongside fellow gamers in an attempt to beat obnoxious and sometimes trivial levels of monsters. The stage is then ranked for you depending on how fast you finished it, or how many monsters were killed, and you get gold and experience according to such.
Speaking of gold and experience, did I mention it's nearly impossible to get in Rakion? After half a year of playing, I had reached level 20 with difficulty and didn't have enough money to buy my armor upgrades. The scheme here is where Softnyx fails with Rakion, because unless you have actual cash invested in the game by level 40 you aren't going to get very far.
Why? There's a tiny little item you can buy with cash that gives you 5 stat points and a few month's worth of "Power User" status, making you gain more gold and experience while allowing you to become insanely powerful with the stat upgrading. This means that you can be level 5 and have the potential of a level 70. The cash shop also offers it's paying customers overpowered armor and weapons, which are sorely abused by our rich players.
Rakion was and still is a great game, but unless you plan on spending a wad of cash the side of a small elephant I would recommend staying away from it.