24. aug. 2009

Wonderking

WonderKing is a 2d side scrolling game thats currently being hosted by nDOORS interactive, and I’ll just start off by saying it’s not a maple clone. I know a lot of people take one look and then say it’s a maple clone but what do they know? I’m sure they never looked it up, or read what kind of different systems they offered.

I’m not going to say maple is bad, maple is just a community game before it’s a good MMORPG. Now wonderking offers a lot of things that will make people say it’s a lot better then maple story.
  • Cooking system: With items you collect from monsters you can cook up different food and drinks that can heal your HP/MP and do other handy things.
  • Mining system: Buy pixel axes and start mining you can use those items and items from monsters to create equipment later on.
  • House system: To come in the future but I hear you can decorate your own house.
  • Pet system: They will actually help you in battle as a friend!
  • Attendance check: You get one attendance check when you’ve been online for an hour, after 5 check’s you get different rewards.
  • Transformation: You can collect 3 cards from monsters and transform into them!
  • Minimap: You can see Monsters on MiniMap
  • WorldMap: You can see what Monsters are on each map.
  • Maps: Are also huge so no more “CC Pl0x”
  • Party: You gain party exp for each monster you kill, you can cash it in as exp or money.
  • Movement: You can doublejump, dash and jump down
  • Auction House: Easier to sell items and equipment

The tutorial in WonderKing is easy to learn and fast, no unneeded conversations that will only annoy you, the monsters fits the environment and wasn’t overused expect their “logo” monster Puma. You will walk into the farm and see carrots. You will walk into a beach and see squids. Unlike Maple Story they put a lot of work on backgrounds, they actually look good compared to most of MS: And you can jump up on a lot of things which have no meaning at all but it’s fun.
They have different party quests and mission maps, some you need to clear the map before the time runs out, others you need to kill a hard boss and then there are those where you need to protect something.
If your afraid of the grind then I have to disappoint you you need to grind to level, and you can’t 1-2 hit an enemy but on the good side the EXP curve is steady and not like an iceberg like some games that suddenly go from easy to super hard in an level.

Trickster Online

Trickster Online is a game you will either love or hate, but no matter what most MMOers have tried it atleast once their lifetime. If you look at the overview trickster is an confusing game because there are so many things to learn but thats probably because it’s a huge game.
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They have a lot of features like Refining, Compounding, Drilling, Boss systems and Pets.
One of the things that I really enjoy with Trickster is their original class feature: They have animal classes which they divide into Power, Magic, Sense and Charm and the jobs are just as original. You will see jobs such as Teacher, Archeologist, Engineer, Shaman, Schoolgirl and Model.
They used to have this hour long tutorial zone which drove me nuts but they changed that into a fast learning 5 minute map which teaches you all the controls you need and the rest you’ll learn as you go with quests and such.
Trickster Online has a huge cash shop, the good thing with it is that it’s actually cheap compared to most other MMORPGs, but the bad thing is that not everyone can afford spending money on a game.
I also want to mention the fact that Trickster always have events, and not just one event but many events at the same time. Some Cash Shop related, some Not. Some for High Levels, some for Low Levels. This way I feel that There is always a new reason to go back and say Hello to Trickster.

What made me Like Trickster?
- Always have Quests.
- A lot of Different Quests.
- Cute, Colorful and Entertaining.
- High Level Cap (400)
- Pets offer different stats
- Different partytypes depending on whose in the party
- You can buy and decorate your own house
- Cute Monster Design
What made me Dislike Trickster?
- Takes time to get used to using Skills.
- Pets don’t fight alongside with us
- It has NightTime which only leaves us with a a small circle of light
- Sense character better at drilling then others
- Slow Walking and Combat

Wonderland

Wonderland Online is an unique MMORPGs, it feels like your typical old school RPG nintendo game. It even has the typical story of one where your on a boat and the next moment you find yourself deserted on an unknown island with no idea how to get back to your own life!

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When you first create a character in WonderLand you choose different people, they have different looks, stats and beginner skills but you also get 6 additional stats when you create your character to make it fit your future.
Wonderland Online offers a lot of game features such as Fishing, Manufacture, Compound, Siege, and Pets. I think the feature I found most interesting was the housing system: You get a tent early on for free and it’s empty and ugly but you can decorate it into your own personal plaza! And it don’t cost cash shop at all! You can actually create everything from items you gotten from monsters and such.
It has it’s flaws, and personally it wasn’t the kind of MMORPG I’m looking for. But if your intrested in a good game with anime characters, uniqe backgrounds with a story splashed together with some game features then this is the game for you!
WonderLand Online, Hosted by iGG

-What made me Like this game?

- Can capture any monster as your own pet!
- Free housing system WOOT!!
- Get to choose an element when creating character for your skills
- Great compound and Manufacture system..

What made me Dislike this game?

- Some items takes more then one slot in inventory
- Bad pixelated graphics
- Turnbased
- Can use arrow keys but not W/A/S/D
- Unoriginal Monsters
- Hard to read conversations

Tales Runner

So here I was thinking I could avoid work and just relax with some manga all weekend long, but of course my roommate had to want to play a racing game AND of course I had to complain how ugly it was looking and that he should rather try one of the cute racing game that is around: I suggested Tales Runner.

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Even thought I’ve never tried Tales Runner I have seen it around, but I can’t control anything thats related to sports or driving so why on earth would I try it? But I did with my buddy and Guess what.

I kicked ass!

Tales Runner offers easy controls, with a easy to learn tutorial with great rewards! =D Alright so it’s not your typical fantasy related MMORPGs that your probably looking for but I can guarantee you that Tales Runner is something your just going to love.
It has the cuteness you crave, which is probably why your on this blog but they offer a lot of things besides that: Different characters with different looks and stats, farm, different game modes, minigames with rewards, and a huge pool of different racing maps to choose from.

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Tales Runner is a fast paced, action packed racing game by Gpotato. You race by foot not by car, you can Swim, Run, Sprint, DoubleJump, and even Fly on some tracks. The standard 8-man race it’s all about reaching the goal before anyone else, where you can pick up capsules which can give you bonuses or give the other people around you bad things. These can be everything from a curse that slows them down, to a chicken that knocks them on their butt to transforming them into a slow no jumping cute animal. Of course you can avoid all of these if your skilled but some of them are quite hard to avoid.
Tales Runner also offer a 30- man race where players isn’t just racing with each other their also escaping an enormous boss chasing them around the track.

Choose your Race!

Yeah a lot of the things in the cash shop can give extra stats, but you’ll soon realize it’s not that big of a deal. Why? Because as you level up, or are in races you’ll gain something that is called TR: TR you can buy certain cash shop items with like fashion: Some with stats some without. You can also use TR to buy more farm items.
For you that enjoy wasting your entire wallet on a game: You can also switch ingame cash for TR.
This of course brings me to the farm, which is probably what I love the most about Tales Runner: You get your own piece of land that you may decorate any way you like. Bad side is that it costs 1000TR a month, but that’s not a lot considering you get 11,000TR from the tutorial alone and if you do the guide quest you get a dorky looking hat that will give you an extra 100TR per race.
Tales Runner growing plant

Farm items, plans, animals and background all costs TR but you get quite a lot just by paying those 1000TR for the first time which means you don’t need to wait and save TR to start your farm and grow plants and animals: You can start right away and you can also let the farm be open to the public and your friends so you can have a party!
Alchemy is also another thing they offer which is good but personally I find it annoying:  At the end of every race you have a chance to get a card, each race track has it’s own set of cards. Now Alchemy needs specific cards to create items, equipment and so on that all give stats so if you put your mind into it you can rock up your body without even entering the cash shop. Bad side is that they need like 10 cards of the most common ones and 4 or so with those that’s a bit rarer. So your bound to do the same race over and over for a decage or so.

park

If you just want to make some friends and not race you can always just sit around in the park and chat with random people. I dislike racing and sports games, but this really hit a spot in my heart. Next I should probably go try that cute golf game that annoys me every time I see it: I mean, it’s soo darn cute I don’t see a lot of MMORPGs that is that cute but no of course make the golf game cute enough to take down presidents.
What made me Like Tales Runner?
- Farm system
- Alchemy system
- Who ever wins chooses the next track
- Simple controls
- Single player options
- Race with up to 30 players
- Option to turn off black outlines
- Own messenger option for friends
- Different themes on different tracks: desert, snow land, princess and the frog, Alice in wonderland.
What made me Dislike Tales Runner?
- Hackers
- May make your finger sore for spamming the jump buttom to come fast down or fast up a rope

Scions of Fate

So, it had to come. The day my friend randomly spit out a MMORPG name, and the day he tried to doom me for hell. I, honesty have tried Scions of Fate before for like a few minutes or so, either way couldn’t have been long.
I am dreading, I am honestly dreading my time for this game and I hope that profound hate will make it better then it actually is.

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So you enter the world with no tutorial for newbies and no idea who to talk too because there are no signs! Well of course you talk to the first person you see and wow, Quest Lady Tae, got it!
But then she says make it to the 10th level on your own. I mean WTF wheres the noob guidance! Don’t make me work I want to be spoiled by noob guidance NPCs!! Over dramatize I know I know..

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Good thing theres Auto Loot, bad thing we’re killing cats. Adorable Gray Cats. Somewhere out there the creator of Scions of Fate is getting haunted down by Cat Assassins to pay for his horrible mistake >_>
Oh, but my fault there is only Auto Loot on quest items and gold, other items just drop very very rare.
I guess I should actually give them a point for putting in realistic monsters, but come on no kids really want to slay cute furry animals such as cats and foxes, toads sure I can kill toads.

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But for a cheap made game the graphics isn’t that bad, in fact their better then most of the games I’d want to play daily. But the lack of customization and scenery change just makes you not think so highly off it.
I kind of like the skills, if I ignore I don’t get any combat skills till I’m level 10 then yes I like the skills. There are two sets of skills: Abilities and skills. Skills are your typical thing, for me as a healer I get heals, buffs and attacks. You need to hit the right level and gather up “Ki” to buy them. Ability on the other hand are more like Passive Skills. You get one point each level which you can put into more hp, or greater heal and so on.

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But in the end, I met nice people and I had a good time even though the grind was rather annoying. And when I finally hit level 10 and got my kick ass Skill I was in Heaven <3 But my time here is much easier since they have this summer even that gives you tons of great potions.
But as those random friends I made told me, Scions of Fate gets better with the levels and I got a bit of that, at level 10 we got this suuuuper weapon with the most awesome damage. Of course it would only last 2 hours so using that time right would be good: Go to a high level area and kill.
But honestly, I’d only recommend this game to people that don’t mind mindless grind.

What made me Like Scions of Fate?
- Could choose your own voice
- Whenever you get a quest a Pigeon comes and tell you
- Good Recovery System
- There is Flowers.

What made me Dislike Scions of Fate?
- No Mage Class
- Point and Click
- Cat Killers
- No guidance for new people
- Few quests
- No Stats
- If monsters goes out of range you stop attacking
- Weight Limit
- Can’t trade nor add friends till level 10.
 

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