I've been playing this game quite a while now and I had fun playing my character magician. Yes, my job there is a magician. So I decided to make a review regarding it. This is my 1st time so I may have made some mistakes about making reviews but I'll improve this as I make more!
You don't expect innovative storytelling were when you start login the game you need to kill already or explore the map already or talk to the NPC before you know what to do or what your character's role is. In Dragonica you expect fairy tales alike. Forces of darkness, once-defeated and regathering power. It's like somewhere, something evil is preparing its return. But that's OK - while the dark forces are gathering power, it gives our hero a chance to go through a series of training montages. And what is an MMO, if not an infinite training montage?
This is the start of it, An evil forces awaken and YOU as a new forces of hero must gather strength to defeat the evil. Yes! It is like you're reading a fairy tale story at the same time you're the Hero. The feeling of while finishing some quest it's like your ending it per chapter. All the scenamatics are done per accomplished missions/quest, a never ending quest while leveling up awaits you, it's like you're really preparing you're character to be a Hero!
Dragonica can be best describe like a Maple Story but better. It's also a more fully-realized and good-looking 3D world and because (i love cute things..xD) if you love cute characters you should try this. It's a one-side scrolling and the attacks are fix, you don't have to click the monster all you have to do is click the skill and make sure you and the monster are aligned. You're movements are just left,right, jump, attack just like playing an old video game where you can't rotate 360 degrees. BUT even if it's a one-side movement the map is not like you could imagine, nope! It's not one straight road map, it really looks like a map! Thanks to the jump option where you can jump you're character to a different terrain! YES! There are different terrains to choose from per map and that made Dragonica "like" a 360 degrees exploration.
You patch the game then watch not the trailer but the story behind why YOU ARE NEEDED. Yes, It's pretty entertaining to see a movie 1st before playing the game. It's comes to the point that they need new heroes to defeat the enemy because the greatest evil has just escaped. After that you can choose what class/job you want. (Sorry on this part onwards my review will be just base on Magician class because that's currently ME right now.. =X hehe..)
There are four classes to choose from, two long range attackers (magician and archer) and two melee attakers (thief and fighter) note:The classes reminded me of ragnarok online though.. =X I think they look like these if ragnarok is a 3D, the fighter is pretty look like a knight. Well customization options include two genders, 10 hairstyles, 20 hair colours, and 10 faces. Leveling up boosts your stats automatically, leaving you with discretion only on how to spend your skill points on your class tree. A positive spin would be to call it accessible and fuss-free, but the truth is it's as shallow a character creation process as Gauntlet.
This game is currently an open beta by GPotato but they said once it's stable and bugs are fix they can put it to commercial launch. Well, luckily I have never encountered a bug yet.. @_@ The feeling of playing an old game (example: arcade, video, game boy etc) became more strong as you play Dragonica is because of the "THIS WAY" note that appears on the right side of you're screen once you killed all the monsters at the mission zone and yes you guessed it right the boss monster is next!
Regarding the controllers there is a beginner guide at the start of the game once you play it. It will teach you what to do or how to jump, attack etc before you can go at the nearest town. The controllers are simple and it's like you don't need the mouse at all. Almost everything is based on the keyboard like playing an rpg console game on your pc. With regards to combat it's really simple and not much of graphics but its not that bad too.
The only problem I have at Dragonica is the party mission. Well, not all the time I can find someone to help me when it's a party mission required or to find someone that has the same quest as you. That part is a no-no to me. But if you love party type games then this is one of the example games you can play. Some quest/mission need a party (which really sux on my side coz I sux on getting party members.. =X) But what can I do? Every quest/missions you finish you get up to 4 items depending on the performance of you're character. It's like a school ranking actually where they rank you A,B,C performances. At level 20 you can choose a different class.. NOTE:LIKE A RAGNAROK AGAIN per 1st job class you can choose two jobs go. Well, I choose the healing type of course.. =X Anyway, I don't have pictures of my character because this is a sudden review but next time I'll post my character 's pictures. And I love my character because she has a cold face expression which is not a type to heal others easily lol!
You also have a mission dragon quest called "test of love" at first it's like what kind of a test is that? But, it's just a killing monster mission quest. IDK why they think to call it that.. =X This is a F2P game so expect to use cash coins for some items.. Well, I'm sorry I dont buy from cash shops so I can't put more details to it because I haven't tried it yet. Regarding the clothes its a gender fix so make sure to buy the right gender clothes for your character. You can't crossplay here sorry..
This is just my comment/opinion though! So don't think much about this!
My main issue with Dragonica is the grind that seems pointless which also leads to another grind. The game strongly discourage multi-characters too because of such grind. Of course the game is fun to some extent but quickly turns into a chore as you have to constantly run back and forth to kill monsters several level aboves yours (for the 5-6th times already) and drop a x amount of items.
Thu Sep 24 2009 10:39AM ReportI suggest you give Dungeon Fighter Online a try. Dragonica was actually made to compete with Dungeon Fighter which owns a very large share of the F2P market in Asia.
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