Dragonica Online Part 2

Alright well after some play time with the game a couple of hourse actually I have a pretty loose opinion on the game. The artwork on the game I love it has a very final fantasy crystal chronicles feel to it wich I personally enjoy. Ofcourse I know a lot of people wouldn't enjoy that though so art direction in this game will probally cut out about half the player base. Combat and movement is solid it feels natural and what not a bit strange at first moving with the arrow keys instead of the standard wasd that I am use to. The game has four classes wich are your generics Warrior,Thief,Mage,and Archer. I played a warrior he got some pretty cool abilities such as knocking people in the air and bringing them down to the ground. The game is pretty much setup on linear progession its divided into town maps,field maps,and mission maps. The field map is your normal are where you go to hunt monsters and find quest items and what not. But the mission maps are interesting they are instances that you or you group can go into and they seem to be placed all over field maps. Once you go up to the mission map portal it will ask you to press z to enter. Once you hit z a menu will come up that will ask you what difficulty you want to select. On the missions I did there were 4 difficulties the 1st one being a solo the last one being a full group with the two middles being somewhere inbetween. Once I entered the mission it took me to the actual mission map. Now the map was just a simple straight run with a bunch of mobs to kill. It has a number on the right side of the screen that tells you how many monsters you need to kill to progress to the boss. Once you kill the monsters you get ported to the boss room. In the boss room you fight pretty much a bigger version of the normal mobs. He is pretty tough with a bunch of special attacks. He has a giant health bar that shows up on the top of your screen. I like how they added that it makes the fight feel a bit more epic I guess seeing the bosses hp bar stretched longer then ordinary mobs. Anyway the stats and everything else are pretty much the same as what you would find in any other games. The game does have a certain charm the im sure niche group of people will like but it just didn't hook me. Especially not coming fresh of aion and champions online betas. I don't think I will be playing Dragonica but it was a good attempt and probally one of the best side scrolling mmorpgs out there to date...but why would someone want to play a 2d mmo when there are perfectly good 3d ones.