Game Review: Dragomon Hunter

Dragomon Hunter is an MMORPG game published by Aeria Games. This game is currently in open beta. Dragomon Hunter has only 2 servers, Aegis and Paradox, with 7 channels and 6 channels respectively. For those who has played games under Aeria Games, Dragomon Hunter has Loyalty Points and Falcon's Fortune the same with Aura Kingdom. I had the opportunity to join the closed beta test, however, I was in China and is unable to try it out. By the time I got back from China, it is already open beta. So, let's get started.

UI

The UI for this game is extremely big. This is to cater the younger kids into playing the game. The game is played in third person with the option of zooming in and out with the scroll button. The UI is almost similar to any other games. Top right is map, underneath the map is quests, bottom centre is your skill bars, health bar, and hotkey bars and bottom left is your chat.

Character Customization

You have very little character customization. There is not much that you can customize other than the hair, face and voice. Both genders are available for all classes.

There is a small rabbit like which is called Hoppalong which will fight for you and the can be customise by the ears, colour, and face only.

Classes

There are currently 4 classes, mercenary, mage, cleric, and rogue. Upon reaching level 20, you can choose to use a different kind of weapon which results to different skills. As you reach level 30, you can choose 2 types of specialization. For example, a mercenary can choose to specialize as a barbarian (high: AoE, burst damage. Low: HP, speed) or a vanguard (high: HP, speed. Low: AoE, burst damage). You can reset the specialization once a day if you are not happy with it.

Gameplay
Currently, my internet is pretty bad so I am able to get a 1 second delay on spells only in the morning. This is due to the North America server part which is unavoidable. I have played all 4 classes and in my opinion, I like the Rogue best. The combat is pretty normal with only 8 skills to spam countless times. During the combat, there are voiceovers that will yell shouts of encouragement which can get pretty annoying at some point. There is an option to mute it, don't worry.

Quests are like the normal kill XX amount of monsters and collect XX items and send to that guy. You can click on the quests to auto run to the area. It is simple and cater for kids.

Hoppalongs, your companion can learn skills from books dropped from Hoppadrome Solo or Party. Each book is only 1 Exp to each classes for your Hoppalong. So imagine farming for 60 books to gain one new class for your companion.
Dragomon Hunter has a system for mounts where you have to kill them countless times till they drop either an egg or a treasure chest which contains the reins, flute, whistle to summon the mount. Only mounts like huge bosses is available in item mall.

Falcon Fortune is a game which requires Fortune Gems. Fortune Gems can be bought using real money or by farming for loyalty points by doing the daily events. Daily, if you are hardworking, you can earn up to 400 Loyalty Points (LP) and 10 Fortune Gems cost you 3450 LP. So, you need 10 complete daily events to buy 10 Fortune Gems which you may or may not get what you want. This is why I have 257 hours in Aura Kingdom (I am not sorry for it).
Dragomon Hunter has a ranch which allows you to breed more dragomons. The highest for a normal dragomon is +40% movement speed. Bosses are +50% movement speed but after breeding, you can use them for attack.
The game has a wonderful system in finding parties for dungeons. There is a special recruitment and all you have to do is click on it and find a suitable group for you. You don't have to talk to them and it is wonderful for players like me who is too shy to ask for parties.

Dragomon Hunter has an archive. Which is to me, a good way to hook on to players. The archive can be used to store the special items such as costumes, mounts, glyph, companions and more. So, for a gamer, we must collect them all or catch them all.
p/s: While auto-running, please look at the screen. Some characters are stuck at certain areas.

Graphics

This game is beautiful. Some may not like the chibi kind of art style but it does have a certain edge for it. I dislike the music, rather repetitive at some point it gets boring.

Currency
Dragomon Hunter has a few currency, Dragomon Point, Coin, Loyalty Points and Aeria Points.
Dragomon Point is received by killing certain rare dragomon, or by completing a certain quests.
Coin is rewards from quests, sale of items and so forth.
Loyalty Point is as explained above.
Aeria Point is by buying with real money.

Special
Dragomon Hunter has a lot of contents. The idea of these contents are rather brilliant, to me. Aeria Games knows just how much they should give to hook onto gamers out there. Falcon's Fortune, Loyalty Point, Archive, Achievements, and Hoppalong's classes are some of those that did. Once I started and I know that this game offers did much of content for me to focus on, I got hooked to it. But doing the same thing over and over again, is not pleasant. I got bored after a while. Not getting mounts drop could be frustrating. Levelling is fun from level 1 to 20 and after that, it is all on you to grind, grind, grind.
A fair warning to players out there, games from Aeria Games tend to have a lot of bots. The popular ones do. Bots will take your kill, make this game laggy and spam a lot.

TL;dR: It is a great game, easily hooked at first. You need to have a stronger will to stay in this game. Not because of bad gamers but the amount of grind that you need is...... wow...
Pros: Good graphics, good but not great gameplay, loads of contents, mount system, Hoppalong.
Cons: Hard to understand ranch system, repetitive music, Aeria Games, grindy.

I give this game a 9/10.

Game Review: Echo of Soul

Echo of Soul is an MMORPG game published by Aeria Games. This game is available in North America and Europe regions only for now. Echo of Soul is recently an Open Beta with more contents to come. For those who has played games under Aeria Games such as Aura Kingdom and Dragomon Hunter, Echo of Soul does not have Loyalty Points. So, let's get started.

UI

The UI for this game is fairly clean. I love how the placements of windows does not disturb my character's view. The game is played in third person with the option of zooming in and out with the scroll. The UI is almost similar to any other games. Top right is map, underneath the map is quests, bottom centre is your skill bars, health bar, and hotkey bars and bottom left is your chat. I give 9/10 for the cleanliness.

Character Customization

You have very little character customization. All classes are gender-locked. It does not have much detailed customization to your character like eyes width or thin/thick lips. But u can customize your head's size. body's length and leg's length.

Classes

There are currently 6 classes. Warlock is the newest class. The classes are further divided into 2 sub classes which you can choose at level 10.

Gameplay
I have played this game for a week just to try it out. The movement is fairly smooth. Although I find the girls running to be a little weird. Almost cross-legged like. I am playing somewhere far from the servers so I receive at least 1 second late for my skills but others where great. The combat is a point and click. Which means you point or tab a nearby monster and click on the skill bar to fight. I have played the guardian, which is a fairly tanky and damaging character and I can solo a boss with a small amount of potions used. This means that for solo players out there, you can survive playing this game alone.

You may also find it annoying that you have to go through a few portals just to get to another map as shown above. These portals are linked within a tunnel and you have to go through at least 6 of them to get to the next map. I assume the developers created these tunnels to avoid people hogging a single area to fight mobs. (The areas all have the same mob, play it and you will get it.) You can only ride your mount when you are not moving and it takes 1 second to equip your mount. (Yes, there is a timer on it.) Which makes it a little more unlikable. I don't like to have to stand still just to ride my mount but that is only my opinion. I like it instant, like how I have to run away from mobs and the mount comes in handy that way.

Quests are fairly simple. The usual kill xx amount of monster and pick up the amount of items. They are guided with a small indication on the head which helps a lot. On the side of the quest tracker there is an arrow showing the direction and no, you can't click on the arrow or the quests to auto-run there like some other games.
This game may be a little bit hard to understand because there is a lot to learn. I suggest reading about it first or google along the way to understand more.

Graphics

This game is beautiful. The game is Korean based and the Koreans do make outstanding games. For example: the upcoming Black Desert. I have been playing at the highest graphics and it still runs very smoothly (8gb Ram, GeForce GTX960).

Though I find some areas to be rather dark and gloomy, some players may like this kind of environment. I dislike the music, rather repetitive at some point it gets boring. I rather turn it off and turn on only the ambient and combat sound, plus my own music to play.

Currency
Echo of Soul has 2 types of currency, AP, silver/gold, and Magic Egg. Ap is the Aeria Points that you can buy with real cash in exchange for cash shop items such as mounts, pets and accessories. Gold and silver can be earned through quests and sale of items. The amount of gold and silver that can be obtained is rather low. Some quests only gives 1 silver or 3 silver maximum as reward. I am level 17 now but the amount of silver i have is only 357. Magic Egg is a special obtainable item by logging in with attendance or special events. Magic Egg is used to purchase special boosts.

Special
This game has a soul system where any mobs that you kill, you will get a chaos soul. The soul can be purified to create special souls that can be used to enhance your character for a period of time. The game does have mounts and pets. You will get a llama mount at the beginning and other mounts and pets are available at the cash shop.

TL;dR: It is a good game but I find myself getting bored of the usual type of quests.
Pros: Good graphics, good but not great gameplay, clean UI, great for solo players.
Cons: Low amount of players atm, hard to understand system, tonnes of portal, repetitive music, Aeria Games.

I give this game a 8/10.