OK so one puzzle solved is that the game my friend was thinking of is Corum Online, used to be run by gpotato till the closed it down...... and who knew there is an archway on the loginscreen. But that isn't the one that was in my head so we keep go…
Trickster Online has completely the right feel about it except that this game was a bit more traditional fantasy MMO in styling and characters. But the top down 2D style is almost exactly the same.
Sorry all its none of those. I played a lot of runescape back in the day its nothing like that. It was definately a top down game with more 2d-like artwork so any of the 3rd person 3D games can be ignored.
Although it was cartoony it wasn't in a ma…