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O hai gaiz. <3 I just wanted to let you know about my current love and obsession, Jade Dynasty. It's a groovy free MMORPG. You can find it HERE.

WTF?
Jade Dynasty is a young, fresh and new MMORPG in the world of the internet! It's an ancient Chinese themed game (think Dynasty Warriors, people!!) with breath-taking scenery and gorgeous character designs.

OMG?
The designers have obviously wasted no time in creating what I think is the most beautiful MMORPG out there. In contrast to WOW, the characters are much morerealistically proportioned and considerably nicer to look at! My main problem with WOW was the ugliness of the characters, so personally, this is a very fulfilling
game. The outfits for your character are intricate and well shaded. The hairstyles are equally attractive and imaginative. One of my concerns, however, is that the hairstyles are confined to only certain factions/jobs and it is relatively difficult to customise your character away from the typical outfit of your faction (without spending real money). Despite that, the default stuff is still lovely.
The scenery is very pleasing to look at and I was very impressed by the gorgeous, dramatic images in the loading screens (which, can I say, loaded quickly - but not too quickly! xD). It is definitely not a game you will get bored with looking at.
There are several different countries to explore, each with its own individual look and feel, with different monsters and different quests, so again, very difficult to get bored here!!

OMFG?
You begin the game as an "Initiate" and are guided through several quests to help you get the hang of the game and the controls and upon reaching level 15 (took me about a day and a half), you can select which faction you wish to join. The options are Skysong - the healer, Vim - the close-ranged attacker, Modo - the mage, Jadeon - the ranged attacker, Lupine - the assassin. Some of these are aligned to good and some to evil, so pick carefully! (I'm a Skysong, because their outfits are the cutest and prettiest ) I think the highest level you can reach is 150, but I may be wrong! I have a lot yet to learn myself!

BEATS? (lol)
Yeah there's some pretty groovy beats in JD. xD;; Well, there's very flowing, soothing Chinese-style music playing in the background, with varying choonz (tunes..) depending on whereabouts you are. It's relaxing and ambient, though not hugely energetic, not really "fight music". I love the music, but when you've been in a
certain place for a while, you end up singing along and it can get a bit irritating. xD So, I often choose to switch off the music (you can alter the volume of music and SFX ingame) and play my own music, but that's just personal preference.
SFX are not bad. Each monster has its own general noise, an attack noise and a death noise. I lol'd particularly at the Zaaras Spellbinders' noise, which goes something like "eheheehheheheeee.....!" xD I swear, it's like someone told a very funny joke down at the Temple of the Zaaras..!
The characters themselves have pretty good voices. None of those crappy cheap voices you get in many online games (....). The girls' victory shout is cute and funny. Oh, that's another thing! The actions/emotes are very well done! The girls have very cute moves, and the boys have super cool, stoic actions.

SKILLZORZ?
While I'm talking about moves, perhaps I should mention skills. You have a couple of quickslots on the bottom and right-hand of the screen (much like in WOW) to put your learnt skills in for easy access. The skills themselves vary depending on the faction (obviously), but in particularly they all convey a very different feeling and power.
For example, the modo has very dark, dramatic attacks (lots of black, red and purple cloudyness xD) in contrast to the Skysong's very light, sparkly skills. So how do you get them? Well....

LVL-ing?
Each time you gain a level, you get one skill point, which you can use on any available skill. You have a skill tree, so what you choose to level up can mean characters of varying strengths and specialities. Regarding strength, defense, accuracy etcetc, these are predefined. You cannot up them (unless you imbue your weapon or gear with talismans). Now I don't mind that too much, but what saddens me is being unable to increase your running speed. Increasing levels does not mean increasing running speed, so when you have a long way to run for a certain quest, it can get VERY boring and tedious. There is a Skysong skill to increase your speed, but it only lasts around 15 seconds with a 2min cooldown time, which is pretty irritating. Killing monsters initially gives you a nice bunch of exp, but the primary source for exp is gained through questing:

O RLY?
Ya rly. xD The quest window sorts the quests into different types and each one can be expanded or ..de-expanded (is that just "panded" then? lol..;;, which makes it easy to navigate and read. The vast majority of quests involve going off to kill a certain number of monsters or getting items off monsters (by killing them). So even if the monsters themselves don't give much exp, the quest does. !

MONSTARZ?
There is attention to detail in the monsters too. Some look cool, some cute, some elegant and some look stupid. xD Whatever. Like I said before, they're not always great for leveling up, so that isn't cool. But there is a nice selection of monsters - I've noticed that monster species tend to come in pairs. Now I mean that in 2 ways (a pair of ways xD): Firstly, there tends to be 2 versions of monsters, e.g. Snaggletooth Whisker and Feline Felon. Also, entire species like to stick in pairs, e.g. Breakbeak Pikemen and Ruinous Bruin. Some of the names are pretty witty and/or lolsome, like the Feline Felons. They're not usually aggressive, though you do get the occasional cranky one who attacks you for no reason. xD

LET'S GET TECHNICAL!
Now, it took me a while to get used to running around and camera angles. If you're running forwards, for example, and you want to veer left, if you press the key to go left, you go the full 90 degrees! Also, the camera doesn't follow you automatically, you have to hold down the mouse button and move it around. I choose to just hold on forwards and move the camera around, it means you can turn more gradually and you can always see where you're going. Now, it does take a while to get used to, but you do eventually. xD

SPECIAL WEIRD STUFF
JD has some extra bits that no other MMORPGS I've encountered have! The first is "Meditation". Now, I like this. When in a safe zone, town etc, you press the orange meditate button and your character begins to just gain exp slowly and steadily. This is a good feature if you're going AFK for a while, as you can be safe in the knowledge that your character is still growing. It's a pretty good idea, I think, and is especially useful if you're making a second character and can't be bothered to go through all the initiate stuff. xD
The second magical, and slightly bizarre thing is called "auto-routing" or "tracking". I'm not entirely sure I agree with this feature... Basically, you access the quest in the quest panel and you can click on the name of the place, monster or person you have to find and your character automatically runs there. Hmm.. In result, a lot of time is spent just watching your character run by itself. :/ You can go search for things yourself, but they give you no clues as to where to go (e.g. "Go kill some -thingies- to the east of -place-.") A lot of the time, you have no choice but to use auto-routing. I think a better idea would be to at least have an arrow which points in the direction you have to travel so you can go to the place youself. After all, you want to -play- the game, not watch it.

KTHXBAI
Jade Dynasty's strongest attribute is definitely it's look and feel. Very genuine and exciting. If I could describe it in one word, it would be "aesthetic". I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to play it, to be honest, it's gorgeous! The quests are interesting, the worlds are exciting and the controls are generally easy! I love it.

I definitely recommend any MMORPG player to give it a go!
I am Adeacia on there.




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