A very enjoyable and varied experience, although lacking the depth some other children's MMOs have.
Sony Online Entertainment quietly launched its free children's play MMORPG Free Realms last week. World is colorfully populated with fairies, humans and various bizarre creatures. It is a mix of RPG combat, mini-games fashioned after the popular casual games on the market, trading card game and various other tasks that require the player to explore and apply analytical thinking to solve. There is also a car racing and demolition derby style jobs available.There is enough to at any given time in the game, but players who want to focus on one aspect of the game strongly, but quickly find themselves worn thin on what is available. It is very easy to level to 20 in one job and one maxed out, grinding out other than for activities that have a player there, there is what to do. However, for those who want to carry out all the activities, the game can offer, there is a lot of fun to be had.
Tutorial doing their job, which means that it will introduce players to the fundamentals of combat, mini-games and interaction with the gaming world. Interaction itself is simplified. Everything can be controlled using the mouse, but movement and keys are mapped to the keyboard as well. There are still a few quirks with the interface, such as opening up jobs and facilities will not allow players to move the menu on the other hand, work as a menu page includes over selectors. Open only offers jobs with J address. The same is true in the collections of quests as well, there's no way to display multiple pages on screen collections, and we were unable to find a solution for this.
There are fifteen current jobs at stake, but it's quite clear SOE plans to add more in the future. Current work includes the fight against six working positions, three tradeskill job, two car job, and four other jobs as adventurer (players receiving first class) Pet Trainer, Postman and Duelist Cards. Four of the fight employment are a member, which means players must pay 5 dollars a month for the membership subscription (which also allows access to various other content in the game). These two free classes, brawler and Ninja will fight to keep people looking RPG in the game pretty busy, but four members of class are definitely fun. They are a guide (our favorite), archer, warrior, and medic. Combat jobs are pretty self explanatory.
Combat itself forward. Click on the monster hit or made an initial step in Hotkey. New moves are learned, as players level up and can be activated by clicking on the road or a combination of press-related. These movements are cool timer, so must be used strategically. Medical students to learn how to heal, wizards are more powerful magic and melee combat martial classes get moves that will do more damage or more damage to enemies.
The combat is totally instanced and voluntary. This is the danger of the game, but it also allows casual players to enjoy the majority of Free Realms in their spare time. There are relatively few 'pit' style, and some areas are very large and more fun to complete the group. However, the association is not really necessary, although some cases will surely need a higher level of combat to complete the work if done alone. The cases are different from land combat zone handful crowds full of underground caves and dungeons with dozens of crowds. There are often multiple goals in the pit, which will earn bonuses, including any search tasks received outside. It's a lot of fun to try to complete all objectives, although after finishing them once, especially in larger cellars, getting a little boring to repeat. A repetition is often required to complement the various quests.
Two of the three tradeskill positions are available non-customers if they are to cook and miners. United with the miners' members-only blacksmith profession. These jobs take the form of casual mini-games. Harvest is part of the kitchen and mini-games for this, together with mining, sorting mail for the postman game archeology dig and play three matches style. Players match up to some baubles in order to remove the plates. Each style of game has its own unique twist. When harvesting the game, which aims to collect varieties produce corresponding to production and gathering enough to create a full barrel. The mining industry is to get ores and gems at the bottom of the plate to go, the corresponding bubbles below them. Although there is good variety to the game, if players are not a fan of match three style casual game, it will quickly wear thin. Cooking and smithery involve a different type of casual game like Cooking Mama. Players have to complete certain objectives with the use of basic skills, such as smashing, casting and moving the mouse quickly. For example, to turn the ore into bars, the first player to break the ore into bits, then pour the liquid into the jug, then use the bottle to get the fire really hot, then pour the melted ore into a form. Once again, for fans of this type of game, it will give hours and hours of fun, new recipes as you can learn or buy. However, cooking or smithery game quickly gets boring for people who want more variety to their play.
The balancing aspect of this game is very simple. Players earn Stardust aspects of completing a work search. Stardust level to work and any active combat earns sappiness in the fight against any player will work in. balancing is also often reward players with new items, or knowledge. Chef recipes and learn most of the classes of clothing and equipment rewards. It's exciting to get a new hat or shirt and see how it looks. In fact, the clothing aspect of Free Realms from the salaries of clothing for clothing, which can be bought with coins from the manufacturers or from the market, it is very pleasant for anyone who likes to mix and match clothes.
There are many quests in the game that have nothing to do with the specific task, so you will not be granted Stardust, but instead will have other rewards, especially coins (which can be used to purchase goods from sellers) and treasure tickets, which can be used in the Cave bridge at Sanctuary (center of the region on the map). Purchase these tickets will have players random items on a specific level range. It is a fun little activity, and tickets are easily earned.
Pet Trainers train animals to do tricks. There is more than teaching Spot, how to sit down and talk, though. Pets must be cared for. There are mini-games for the cleaning of the animal, which requires, shampoo, conditioner and brush to be purchased in-game. It must be fed, which requires bowls, food and vitamins, all purchased in-game. Once aspect of care is taken, then the coaches can 'play' with their pets in teaching them all sorts of tricks. This is another kind of mini-games, pet tricks gestures, as each trick is connected with the movement of the mouse on the screen. The faster and more precise movement is, the better will teach pet trick. Players may only pet tricks to learn in specific areas for training. PET coach work could be completed without ever buying a pet through the test of domestic animals (pets borrowed from the teachers for short periods), but most people will want to own your own animal. Pets can be purchased from the market by means of Cash Station, ranging from 250 points to 400 points. A pet is not with the membership, either way, if players want to name and have their own pets to monitor the surroundings in the game, they will have to fork out any additional money. Not really, but whereas each point of the same coin, as well as the most pet gets only $ 4 a player it forever. Pets are limited at this time for cats and dogs, but we have time for more types of pets may be added to the game.
Jobs, we found that most have been pleasant and Postman Card Duelist employment. The Postman, it seems silly on the surface of the work, but we actually thought it was one of the most well thought out aspects of the game. For some reason finding the right address and throwing mail into mailboxes in different cities was incredibly convenient. Of course, some are not so simple as the other and knocked the stupid dog was annoying and made the task more fun. One player even turned repel dogs go bad guys! It's very nice.
Card Duelist is nice for a completely different reason. Supporters Magic The Gathering, Pokmon, or any other type of business card games will be like. After the card Duelist set of jobs will earn a lot of players from the card and a decent set can be compiled without ever purchasing any package. You can be on-line to play against other players. Packing fees are game, though, and, of course, will allow players to seek a greater diversity of decks, so have a value for those who have online TCGs. If Free Realms not in any field, it's where a Toontown Online Guide 101 succeed, and that is depth. Although all three of these games target kids, Toontown, and guides to the level of depth that keeps adults interested in the game long after the novelty wears off. However, in free Realms, what you see is what you get. Reach a level of 20 in each job will take a very long time, even though there is plenty of activities to participate in outside jobs, in the case of longevity in the game may come from, but we hope that you will find more depth to employment in the near future.
Another complaint we have, it seems that some unnecessary grinding. Often, we encounter a business trip and said, we need to get to level 10 or 15 and have no other tasks before us to help us get there. It is true that the fight with less work, because there are many activities in the gaming world, which we will ask you to engage in a fight and we will do to raise the level of those in employment but tradeskill and postman job, this is not the case. Once we hit those places where we have a certain level to the next trip to business trip, you must return to the old, and churn out, regardless of the level of remaining there. Usually, this involves only the level but it is annoying and we would have liked to have seen SOE make sure that they were enough activities in the way of employment (or other activities by NPC to ask us to do), so we really feel that we were just doing the task to get level.
The last thing we would like to see in the future relates to tower defense and Chess and Checkers games. We would like to recall more goals for playing these games. Right now there is a few quests in the game where the NPC to send players to beat several levels of the tower defense game, or beat an NPC in chess or checkers, but it's the extent of interaction with these games. Advanced Tower Defense games are just a membership, so you will have plans for down the track. We sure hope so, as a variety (penguin and Bixio only name a few) of these styles of games are completely fine.
Closing Comments
With a nearly flawless run under their belts and several updates have made games for the repair of minor bugs with the game, Free Realms behind really solid start. Even with its shortcomings, it's a lot of fun and so is the fact that even if one of balancing the current ceiling of 20 may not take a long time, balancing all of them and goes through all the finding in the content world, as well as enjoying a trading card game tower defense games, the many dozens of hours playing. It's worth checking for any fan of casual games, RPG games, trading card games, tower defense games (yes these games are so good that fans of the genre should look to it!) Or five training games, whether you are 5 or 50 .
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