Through Amatsu, the Japanese localization update, Ragnarok Online recaptured an ancient Japanese village surrounded with snowy cherry blossom trees. The update also includes the ‘Legendary Tree’, based on a Japanese folklore. The four popular NPCs were modeled after Japanese animation and game characters, and their interesting dialogues were derived from folklores, animations and games.

For Indian maps, the development team excluded bull-like monster designs since India worships cattle. Also, for Chinese maps they made their best effort to create beautiful, red backgrounds and objects since Chinese people believe the color red brings good luck. After all, localization projects that require great understanding of other countries’ culture and emotions are definitely not easy to do.