So this past weekend I downloaded Mythos for the end of their closed beta. Open beta starts tomorrow April 12th. Mythos is a cross between Torchlight, Hellgate London, and Diablo. Its cartoonish like Torchlight, though not as much. You grab quests in each city and they have it divided into many many towns which are linked by swirly gates. Each town has 1 or more exits to other towns and contains a swirly instance gate which contain entrances to 8-12 dungeon zones. Each dungeon is 1 to 4 levels.
The residents of the towns give you quests and will send you into one of those dungeons to collect items or kill a boss. When you are done, you then have to exit and return to the NPC quest giver. The MMO Vindictus is the other extreme where you return to the same town for your first 44+ levels and enter instances from 5 different locations. But in Mythos each zone only lasts for 3 or 4 levels. This creates lots of useless running. They could really condense this quite a bit and make the players happier.
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