Yogurting

Yogurting is a Korean Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game released in 2005.

The story is as follows: you are an Ordinary High School Student attending either the modern Estiva Academy or the more traditional Yoitsuki Academy. One day, the student body wakes up to find that almost all the teachers are missing, there are strange penguin creatures everywhere, and monsters have infested both campuses. Worse still, every other school aside from Estiva and Yoitsuki has vanished. Even though no lessons are being taught, no-one can relax because of these events. This would come to be known as the Endless Vacation Phenomenon.

Because most of the adults have gone missing (and the rest are clueless), the Absurdly Powerful Student Council rises up to take charge and organize an investigation into the E.V.P.. Meanwhile, the World Trees on both campuses have begun to resonate, opening up a portal to another dimension where a mysterious artifact known as "the antique" is said to reside.

There are four types of weapons that you can use: Blades (swords), Gloves (fists), Mura (headphones) and Spirit (backpacks). Though you can switch between them at will, you can only master two of them; mastering a weapon gives you access to that type's special attacks, skills and passive abilities. Blades and Gloves are best for melee characters, while Mura and Spirit characters focus more on magical attacks and support.

Yogurting is notable for its extremely cute graphical style, costume designs and the ease of leveling. However, there is one very big hurdle to playing: it's all in Japanese, and there are very few English guides out there. Prepare to stumble through a lot of dialogue choices and incomprehensible menu screens when you first start playing. The game also bars any non-Japanese IPs from playing the game, and registering for the game in the first place is a challenge in itself.

1UP.com awarded Yogurting second place in a "Worst Games, Best Names" article.

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Yogurting provides examples of:

 * Absurdly Powerful Student Council
 * Adults Are Useless - They have either disappeared or have no clue what is going on.
 * And Your Reward Is Clothes
 * Animesque
 * Can You Hear Me Now? - Your cellphone is used to communicate with other players and form parties.
 * Elaborate University High
 * Energy Ball - Spirit users fire these.
 * Everything's Better with Penguins
 * Everything Trying to Kill You
 * Genki Girl - Anya, the representative for Estiva.
 * Good Old Fisticuffs - Gloves.
 * Guide Dang It
 * Heroes Prefer Swords - Blades.
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes
 * Joshikousei
 * Malevolent Architecture
 * Musical Assassin - Mura.
 * Personality Blood Types - You choose your character's blood type during character creation. This determines which weapon you start with.
 * Rank Inflation - Missions are graded, and you need a B+ or higher to "pass" and advance.
 * Stop Helping Me! - You will want to switch off Chibi Anya very quickly.
 * Student Council President
 * Token Mini-Moe - Nana, Anya's younger sister and the representative for Yoitsuki.
 * Transfer Student Uniforms - Clothes are unique to either Estiva or Yoitsuki; you're not allowed to wear the uniform of the other school.
 * Vendor Trash
 * Word Salad Title - "Yogurting"?!
 * Zettai Ryouiki