Crossgate

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Crossgate is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by Dwango and published by Square Enix. It has been released in Japan, Taiwan, and China since 2001. It uses a traditional Japanese cartoon style and 2-D graphics system (with player characters pre-rendered in 3-D). The battle style is turn-based resembling Dragon Quest series and players may choose to team up to a maximum of five players.

One of the destinctive features of this game is its "Creature System": slightly similar to the famous Pokémon series, this game allows players to carry five creatures with them while traveling and place one creature fighting with them while battling. There is an occupation specialized in catching those creatures and trading them in an open marketplace where players bid for the strongest, rarest, or cutest creatures. By assigning ability points to five different dimensions when the creature levels up, each player may grow his/her unique creatures.

There has been three official expansion packs released for this game, involving two additional developers in this MMORPG.