A little tangent
This article contains spoilers for Lost Ark’s main questline.
Lost Arkis a very silly game, but not in the way it initially seems.
The game’s ignorance of its own absurdity is funny, but the story itself is not much fun.
This begins to change once you approach level 50.
After completing the continent of East Luterra, Lost Ark suddenly explodes in scale.
Tortoyk is a tropical island home to a race of gnomelike creatures called Mokokos.
Luckily, the Mokokos don’t seem particularly bothered by your abducting their children.
At first, Tortoyk seems like a typical Lost Ark zone, albeit sunnier.
Suddenly, the game shifts gear from a standard fantasy fare, into a whimsical borrowers-like adventure.
Early in the questline, for example, the mokokos give you a new mount.
It’s a ladybird.
It functions in precisely the same way as all the other mounts in the game.
But on the other hand, it’s a ladybird.
The dungeons get in on the act too.
Your tiny adventures don’t last through the whole continent, sadly.
But Lost Ark compensates for this with a neat concept reversal.
Does Tortoyk make it worth pressing through the less interesting opening areas of Lost Ark?
Probably not on its own.
But Tortoyk isn’t the first cool thing to happen in Lost Ark.
Tortoyk is simply the point at which the game fully embraces that silliness.
