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Cloud Nine is a Free-to-Play fantasy filled MMORPG. If you’ve heard of Holic Online, you’ll realize that Cloud Nine is Netgame’s sequel to the original game of Holic. It contains more action, greater amount of quests, and improved game play. Netgame has also added or enhanced exciting features like the Monster Transformation and PK (Player Kill) system, Pet Taming System where you can turn a wild monster into your pet, Transportations by dragons, unicorns, and human cannons that help your character fly across land, and many more captivating updates.

When creating your first character you are first asked to choose which Nation you would like to join, Ganav Libero or Primus Union. Once chosen, the account will be locked and all your characters will belong to that Nation. You can have up to three characters per account. There are also six different classes (Warrior, Mage, Monk, Cleric, Rogue, and Hunter) and three races: the human-like Senekas, animal-like Matskas, and the tiny fairies called, Koshares. Both genders are available for each race. And what’s neat is that each race and gender has a different Race Skill Tree with different abilities. This allows further customization even between players of the same class. Moreover, your character will eventually have the opportunity to pick a sub-class which carries its own equipment, level, and skills. A Sub Class Skill Tree is shared between both classes providing additional bonuses for leveling up your second class. You can easily switch between your two classes at anytime.

After creating your character, depending on which nation you choose, you appear in Crissium or Holyland. As you level up, you gain access to other continents such as Kanto, a wide open desert, and Archahel, an icy mountainous region. Cloud Nine has also announced their opening of another continent this upcoming summer, known as the volcanic region of Ceres. Ceres will be available for levels 60 and higher.

Each area of the game includes multiple dungeons which further expands the world of Cloud Nine. Elite Bosses can also usually be found at the end of each of these dungeons and offer unique rewards not easily obtainable from weaker monsters.

Cloud Nine also offers hundreds more quests than the previous version. Quest and monster locations are marked on the map lowering the amount of time spent searching for NPCs or enemies. In addition to regular quests there are Story Quests, marked in blue instead of yellow. These quests offer more exceptional rewards than regular quests and have no level requirement.

The newest and biggest features of Cloud Nine are the Monster Card and Monster Transformation systems. Each monster in Cloud Nine has its own card, which can be collected and put into a Monster Book. There is a Monster Book for every area of Cloud Nine. After completing the book you are given gourds as a reward which can be used to tame a monster to become your pet! With this system, there are hundreds of pets that can be tamed to fight alongside you, which can be equipped with up to three Pet Skills. Furthermore, each pet can be leveled up and evolved, which changes its appearances. If you get bored of a pet but don’t want to spend the time to level up a new one, you can transfer the stats of one pet to another, but the old will be lost in the process.

There are also Monster Transformation Cards. These cards turn your character into the monster specified. After transforming, you get to choose which skills you want. While transformed, you takeover the monsters stats and may attack or be attacked by any player, just like a real monster. If a player gets defeated by this monster transformed player, there is a chance the player will be ‘infected’ and also turn into this monster. Defeating players as a monster and defeating monster transformed players gives you various rewards. Monster transformation will last for 15 minutes or until you are defeated.

While you aren’t questing, card collecting, taming, transformed, or boss hunting, there is also a Crafting System. There are three different crafts to choose from, Alchemy, Metalworking, and Jewelcrafting. Alchemists can create potions and equipment upgrade scrolls, Jewelcrafters can create jewels to socket your equipment with, and Metalworkers can create accessories for your character and keys to open locked chests. You can collect the materials to make different items from three gathering professions: Mining, Fishing, and Gathering. Unlike the crafts, gathering professions do not have a level and players only need to purchase a tool from a NPC to mine, fish or gather. Exceptionally lucky players may also find an exclusive pet that can only be obtained through these professions.

While the beginning areas of the game are Non-PvP, further areas are completely open to both factions. This allows constant Nation vs. Nation field PvP. In addition to this, there are also regular Party Matches and Nation Wars where players can gain additional fame and medals. Fame and medals can then be used to purchase special items including jewels, costume pieces, and mounts.

Overall, Cloud Nine has tons of new features which are unique and as well carries all the standards of a regular MMORPG. The graphics are appealing and high quality and the animations smooth. New contents are being added regularly, the most recent being the remarkable Couple and Marriage System. If you’re looking for a casual, anime-esque mmo, try out Cloud Nine today!
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Tattoo City is a shop-decoration and expansion game based around a simple minigame. It’s a clever choice of theme, if made a touch kid-friendly and cartoony for a heavily tattooed adult audience, and the minigame does require some actual thought.

As of this writing, the minigame is all there is, in terms of actual gameplay. You open your shop and get three minutes to make the required amount of cash for that shift. Customers will walk in and sit down and make requests like “I want a tattoo with green and animals on my butt.” You have to pick the appropriate image out of a collection of nine or so, then flip through images of cartoon body parts to find the right one. Some of the requests are thematic (Fantasy, Asian designs,) some refer to subject matter (animals, flames,) and some are visual (colors, symmetry.) The body parts are almost entirely self-explanatory, except that the image of a male upper back is apparently intended to match with a request for a shoulder tattoo. The early levels are very easy, but there is a certain amount of thought in picking out the tattoo, more than one of which might match (and occasionally, none match.)

The other half of the game involves spending your hard-earned coins to decorate your shop. In addition to flash displays, there are the usual collection of random art and kitsch objects that you’d expect to find in an actual tattoo parlor. The fancier decorations require the real-world currency, but you can certainly deck the place out in flames without spending actual money. There are no gameplay-affecting upgrades or items available, though, which limits the appeal for people more interested in that side of things.

While the decorating side is reasonably solid, the appeal of the tattoo challenges fades after a few repetitions. The actual tattoo images are trite and uninteresting (and really too tiny in the brief moment you see them to be particularly eye-catching) and there’s no apparent way to change the gameplay or unlock new kinds of challenge. A perusal of the game’s Facebook page suggests that this is a relatively recent development – players on the discussion board mention creating their own designs and tattooing their friends, which sounds much more involved than the current sparse gameplay.

Tattoo City appears to be a game more genuinely in beta than many that claim the title, and the underlying concept is interesting. While we’re not inclined to give any game that’s accepting real cash for in-game items much of a break because they’re “in beta,” we are willing to keep an eye on this one for a while and see how things shake out. It’s not a game we’d recommend you rush out and play right now, but we’ll keep you posted if that changes!

BC Wars bills itself as a “sandbox” game, but that’s a little misleading – it’s basically a straight adventuring/leveling game with a crafting and economic side. The artwork is pretty basic and the layout of the site is not terribly intuitive, but it’s doing some interesting things nonetheless. The tutorial video is amateurish although worth spending the three minutes on; the game guide is brief but much more useful.

The first thing you’ll do is create a character. There’s not much customization beyond hairstyles available, but the meat of the character is in the skills. There are fourteen of them, which is a little bewildering at first, but you can reassign your points as often as you like until you hit level 10, so you don’t need to worry about making a mistake. The one real caveat is it’s not at all clear that you can’t use the five or so crafting skills at all until level 10 at the earliest.

The main part of the game is exploring. This is a very simple mechanism – you pick an area and click “Explore.” Each click brings up a random message – you might get a bit of flavor text about the area, a simple choice – investigate a noise, or follow it? – a random item, or a monster encounter. You get 200 “steps” per hour – it seems to refresh at the top of the hour rather than on an individual timer.

The monster battles are simple turn-based fights. You can pick a weapon if you have one equipped, pick a special attack if you have spare Stamina, and click “Attack” to get the outcome of each round. If you prefer, you can choose to fight automatically – you’ll have to fill in a CAPTCHA but then you’ll get the round-by-round outcome and the results immediately. As the combat is not very exciting either visually or strategically, this is a great option to have.

The rest of the game either involves simple chance-based minigames – slots, over/under, and the like – or the economic game. You can buy and sell land, create a shop to sell items, participate on the auction house, and, after level 10, use found or purchased materials to make fancier items. There’s no real progression other than to become wealthier and wealthier – the game guide literally says “The currency is clams, and the main goal is to amass as many of these as possible.”

You can pay money to get Gold, which you can spend on various upgrades from getting more step-per-hour to explore to increasing the number of items you can sell in your shop at once. None of the upgrades are critical, but a lot of them are appealing. One way to earn gold other than paying for it is to boost the game’s ranking at a number of game rating sites, which seems somewhat shady, but the rating sites all seem ambivalent about that kind of traffic.

BC Wars does not seem like a professionally developed game – the art is low-quality and the game does not have a cohesive overall design. However, if you enjoy playing the market, it is geared expressly towards that kind of play and may be worth a look.