So, two new F2P games are out — or, playable at least. The first I’ll go over is Dragonica and the second is Warrior Epic. (WE will happen tomorrow, as to give me something to write about and because it just launched this morning — it’s got a few bugs to sort out)

Keep in mind that this will be just a brief overview of what you’ll find starting out.

OK, so you’ve never heard of Dragonica, eh? Well, it’s an Asian side-scrolling MMO that’s arcade-actionish. I’ve heard Maplestory is a good comparison. (played it for a few minutes once, years ago) If you don’t know what Maplestory is, then think back to those good ol’ side-scrolling action games like Golden Axe and you’ll get the idea. It is a persistent world, though the zones or levels are divided into different instances (that everyone shares) with the exception of dungeons — which are instanced for you and your party.

Character Creation

Pretty simple creation. Choose from one of four classes: Warrior, Magician, Archer, and Thief. The rest should be obvious.

Once created, you’re taken into a basic tutorial zone that will only last a few minutes and introduce you to the game and beginning main story with the help of your flying buddy Pororing.

After the tutorial you enter your classes city — they’re split up, but all are basically the same, save for rewards. Here you’ll find some quests and various merchant NPCs that will be useful. Run through and you’ll find the zone out to the first adventure area.

Basic Attacks

The adventure area is where you get to kill things, LOTS of things. The combat is the same aforementioned arcadeish actiony spamming of basic attacks and your specials. Starting out you’ll only have one trained skill — defaulted to the ‘A’ key, that entire row you see there is for skills, the one above for items — a basic attack skill and a special attack skill — the special attack is charged up, if you’re hit while charging it will interrupt it and you can see the Thief’s special attack below.

Special Attack

You can see the sheep getting knocked into the air here — mid-air attacks are used quite a lot in this game, lots of jumping around and attacking or attacks that throw the mobs up in the air.

I’ll likely have more on this game in the future. While cartoonish and cutesy the game is quite fun and free. Here’s a couple screens of some humor that I particularly enjoyed.

Silence of the Lambs

Just a loading scree- is that Bruce Lee?!