Review of FengYun from Aurora Technology
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007How many of you used to play MU Online? If you’ve played that MMORPG, you will be attracted by its graphics and equipment. That game is old, but people still remember that and many private servers are hold for MU. Today I will give a little bit report on FengYun, a game made by Chinese company called Aurora Technology which is located in ChengDu city. It’s really like MU.
The basic impression of this game for me is that, it’s a game designed based on three games: World of Warcraft, On the journey, MU.
Graphics:
This games looks like 3D, but actually it’s 2.5D. You can not adjust camera but it’s not a problem. The only problem that I encountered in playing was that you can not see your character when he/she moves in the shadow of the trees. It’s very neat and you can also find your footsteps fading while running. Effects of equipment are really nice, shinning all the round. When you are under the water, you can swim.
Classes:
It is like MU, there are totally 3 classes: Warrior, Taoist(Mage) and Archer. And you can be a Sword Warrior or Spear warrior; Fire Taoist or Water Taoist; Arrow Archer, Crossbow Archer or Nurse Archer. Currently the classes are balanced though some Taoist in forum claimes that the new updates weakened Taoist, but all we know is that Taoist are too strong at the beginning. BTW, only Archer is the girl looking character. It’s interesting that you need to be verified through webcame of the GMs to make sure you are a true girl. Once your identity is confirmed, you can learn nurse skills to be a Nurse Archer and complete some certain quests.
Skills:
Since each class has two ways to train, so skills are totally different. If you want to be a Sword Warrior, then normally it’s impossbile to be an excellent Spear Warrior. In leveling up skills, all you need is Vigor, which can be obtained from killing monsters and completing quests. But you can’t gather so much Vigor as you think, so you need to make good distribution of your Vigor and think carefully which skills are needed while which are not.
Quests:
There are loads of quests in game. You can level up by doing the quests very easily. You can touch off a quest by getting a quest item dropped by the monster; you can do the circulated quests for hunting; you can complete transportation quests by escorting goods and gain a lot EXP…. Some quests are boring, while some quests will give you some surprise.
Gameplay:
The gameplay of this game is not bad. Since I am only lvl 30, currently my feeling is that: It’s funny and sometimes you will get surprise. When you fight with monsters and all of a sudden, you will find a Boss full of precious items; You can suddenly come across a treasure box or a bag dropped from the mosnters. When you are lucky enough and find something valuable, this information will be broadcasted in all the server and make you famous.
Economy:
It’s not easy to gain a lot of in game money. And currently in game money is hard to gather and sometimes you will be worried about the in game money rather than purchased points. You can purcahse some items from the company but those stuff do not dominate anything. For example, if you want to upgrade your equipment in the game, you can not purcahse materials from the shop directly but to purchase from the hard working players. So some paid players complain in official forum saying they can not get what they want in the game, which is pretty fair to the unpaid players. So basically the economy in this game is good and balanced.
Equipment:
You can no upgrade the level of your equipment. You can change your equipment when you get to 10. 20. 30…etc. You can also get your equipment blessed by using stones/gems. Currently I didn’t see any socket items, and there isn’t any information on that in official website. The success rate is marked on each stone, so you will know the rate clearly. But once you failed, your item is gone.
My current conclusion:
What’s promising:
It’s a good game for killing time, beautiful design and interesting gameplay, balanced economy and good PK setting. You can play well by paying nothing.
The pratfalls:
Lag. When I see other players around me, or casting spells around me, I do feel lag. Hopefully they can solve this problem in not long future. You can not make a female warrior, female taoist or male archer, that is no good either. Maps are a bit crowded and monsters need to implimented more.
If you can read Chinese, you can click here to visit Official Chinese website: http://www.fy0.cn
