ELO: Equestria Legends Online

All of my endeavors, in any game that I played at any point in my life, always started with a deep breath.

Why was that?

Perhaps, it might have been because the air told me so much about my surroundings. The temperature, the scents, the weight and atmosphere and ambiance - every minuscule and subtle detail reproduced by the AmuSphere felt distinctive depending on the environment you dived into.

In Alfheim Online, I had always logged in to a world that welcomed me as much as I welcomed it, with the familiar, rustic air that undoubtedly belonged to an MMORPG about swords and magic and monsters.

Gun Gale Online was the same - rather, it was a different type of the same air; that exaggerated grittiness, the scent of oil and metal and gunpowder and many other things whispered it's name into my ear upon my first breathing it in: "MMORPG." Well, that is, a futuristic one that was focused on firearms and not sword-fighting, but I digress.

In this new game, this new world, in Equestria Legends Online, the air tasted and smelled almost sweet, vaguely reminding me of every good smell that my nose had ever met with. That is to say, it was distinctive of this game. Of course it was.

After all, air - in it's utterly arbitrary fluidity and character - was surely one of the most organic and "real" things that could be imitated by virtual reality.

Then, that begs another question.

That is, just what is it that makes something "real"?