You could tell me the name of almost any free MMORPG and I'd be able to tell you SOMETHING about it. Now, not a lot of people play MMOs, but this is beginning to be extremely overshadowed by the rapid pace of growth by the behemoth WoW (Which by the way I hate with a passion.) and henceforth from it's release, the market has been growing rapidly, in leaps and bounds from it's humble beginnings like the small market of client-server setups of text based games to one of the first MMOs known as Everquest, to the almost unstoppable juggernaut of free Korean MMOs and that WoW game I mentioned earlier.
So let's get to business.
These reviews should be short, sweet, straight to the point so you don't waste time reading paragraphs of utter, repeated garbage (coughcoughgameinformercoughgamefa
gscooooughgamespot)
MMOs will be graded by Moogles. There is no maximum of how many moogles a MMO can get, just think that more moogles = better game. However, each game (based on my experience with it) will get additional moogles awarded (the max of those being 5 total.)
"You'll be seeing a lot of me, Kupo."
However, bad things that a MMO has, like obvious flaws that impede on gameplay or just an overall pain will mean that God kills a Moogle.
"Res plzz"
Format is as follows
<Name of MMO and URL>
<First Impression>
<Review>
<Likes/Dislikes>
<Moogles>
So, let's dive right in.
Requests:
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Grand Fantasia
http://grandfantasia.aeriagames.com/Looks like another korean animu grindfest, probably will make short work of this one.
So I started up the game, made my first character with a lackluster character creation system and jumped right in as... a Novice class. This is one of the few rare games that make you grow into a class rather than starting out, which I admire, but also very dearly hate due to the fact that 1. This says "FUCK YOU" to magic players and forces them with melee until level 10 or 20 or so, and 2. Sometimes you just wanna dive right in. So I grew to level 15 on the trainee island (which was actually short work) and I quickly became a mage.
Now, let me say, from there on I was thoroughly surprised by this game. In Grand Fantasia, you take care of Sprites, pets that get their own room on your screen, and you can interact with them, talk with them, summon them to pick up items for you like a good little slave... and make, upgrade, find, or disassemble items, weapons, armor, and even battle them with other sprites. "Wait Zai, what's so great about this?" Most of the grunt work in other MMOs is now offloaded onto another chunk of data, so you can continue grinding levels while your sweatshop slave makes you everything you can possibly need. Plus they're cute and it's absolutely adorable to watch them stroll around and talk to you while being oh-so-cudd-- ... Erm, ahem.
Fighting in this game is your same point and click, skill shortcut stuff and all that jazz. Difference? The skills are actually entertaining to use, and you aren't limited by something as stupid as skill points to only get a certain number of skills. Bad thing is, you buy your skills. I'd rather buy my skills than only get a certain few and stick with them, but they get kinda expensive (Work for those skills!) to the point where you're divided on whether getting a new skill or getting that new piece of armor.
Overall, of course the game is a grindfest animu korean MMO, but in practicality, I found it pretty fun. It's deserved it's install on my computer and I just might begin playing it for fun.
Change of pace, fun.
SLAVERY OF THE SPRITES HA HA HA
Entertaining skills, and aren't limited to a set number of them the entire experience.
Awarded 3 moogles out of five for being an above average free MMO.
total: 7 moogles
