[GameReviewer]

REGISTER TO REMOVE THIS AD

this has also been posted on the main flyff forums * GAH I MESSED UP ON THE POLL OPTIONS* sry.... just say if u hate it or not then


This review is not trying to flame flyff in anyway , but to show of it its flaws. Please be considerate in helping flyff become a better game and post open mindedly on your opinions of what you like and don't like. Be honest , only your voices change things for the better.

If you are willing to read this , read it all.

bann me if you wish , just trying to speak my mind and see if any others agree.



Flyff (Fly for Fun) - A free MMORPG developed by a Korean company called Aeonsoft.

Story - What story?!?! While playing this game you will probably don’t even know what is going on at the moment while you are playing it. Certainly as you sign on as a newb nothing about the world is explained in detailed on what to do or your purpose. You might say “but there is a story! It talks about 5 gods and some other bullcrap!” Yes , technically Flyff does indeed contain a story , but it has no relevance to the game or the game play itself other then a bullshit reason why humans are able to have strength , be intelligent , have magic and of course Flyff‘s gimmick , being able to fly.

1/10

Graphics - For a free MMORPG, Flyff’s graphics aren’t too bad, considering you aren’t paying a single penny for the game, but as a comparison to all the other MMORPGs currently on the market they are simply just dated. Face it, they look like sad ps1 graphics (and that’s with the settings on high.). In general the style is somewhat unique with its laid back anime type look, but the over all is nothing special. Of course graphics don’t mean everything; some games have the look bad, play well sensation to them. So? Is the game fun?

3/10

Game Play - Right from the start Flyff is pretty simple and easy to get into. You begin by creating a character (That sadly looks the same as many of the players already existing.) If you can click and press a key or two, no problems should be expected. The game contains the basics that all up-to-date MMORPGs have, missing a few here and there. The system is the old kill, kill, kill, grind, grind, grind, with very few things to do other then being a 3D chat room. Of course all MMORPGs have there “Kill a bunch of things and you will gain levels” but some sadly do it better then others. How long can doing the same thing be entertaining one’s self? Well Flyff’s way of doing the same thing is bad, very bad, like September the 11th bad. You will find yourself doing the following; Ctrl Click enemy, 20 seconds pass, cast buff skill/heals with a rinse wash and repeat to it. If you are the h4rdc0r3 skill kind of person this isn’t the game for you. Let me go over the main game play options of Flyff. Eventually you will reach the glorious level 20 and you will first start to fly. Right after you get on the broom/board (only choices) you will easily get used to the controls and then it will dawn on you. “Damn, flying isn’t all that great.” The whole Flying gimmick in Flyff is very overrated, after getting so over hyped about the flying, the experience disappointed me with a crappy air combat and it just wasn’t as fun as I thought it was going to be.

The quest system in Flyff is god awful. There is no what so ever any kind of change to the same ole “Gather 20 something stuffs.” or “Kill 30 evil monster thingys.” The whole “Do a lot of without any real reason” is very gay as well. The requests of the quests always give some stupid scenario or dilemma on how “The 80 apple pies.” will do them good. Basically it’s a nice 20% experience that will save you 2 hours of grind.

And do you know how pvp works in Flyff? Basically well, there is no real reason to pvping other then its fun. If you are an h4rdc0r3 pvper you will be granted with useless ranks that do nothing at all that and apparently are for show. Some of the ranks are so ridiculously hard to get in Flyff like trying to obtain 5000 wins to get my “Super Destroyer. “Type rank. Which makes me wonder why in the hell is the purpose of it. Usually in MMORPGs some hard task is given and after you accomplishment some reward is treated after the hard work, HA, not in the uber fun non-wasteful time world of Flyff though!

What is a little better about the game is that the guild system isn’t too bad. They give out some nice cool options that are fun and enjoyable. Guilds have the options to team pvp and have guild wars with other guilds (What is expected in a MMORPG). Currently (or last time I was playing.) there was only one type of guild match. Kill the guild master, and you win the duel. Please add other modes please Aeonsoft. This turns the whole team work together thing into a “Let everyone gang rape that one dude.” How do you expect one level 100 to stand against 5 other level 100s? Not to mention the fact that you can’t give guild master leadership is kind of homosexual though.


The Bad Things They Don’t Tell You.

Now I let over some of the flaws in the game play of Flyff, firstly the stat system in Flyff is flawed. STA (Stamina) is the base stat for all classes no matter what. You would think it would be better for a mage to get INT (Intelligence) which would make the spell of the mage be more powerful and ultimately be better for the mage (You would think.), but sadly its not. You will find that a lot of high level mages will have there stats go all STA for the fact that it’s better then what is supposed to be given. A mage not using magic power for there stats? Wtf?

List of Reasons why Pvp in Flyff is Ghey.

- The pvp is unbalanced and ghey. There are about 3 classes that dominate pvp. The Blade and Ringmaster is proof of the unbalanced game play, for they will not last in any average duel.

- When searching for a duel many players are rude and try to hide there level by disguising there self as a low leveled player. After the duel has started he/she will put on the 1337 knight gear and own ya revealing that they were 38 levels higher then you from the start. Of course this can be avoided, but still why should I have to put up with this bull?

- Most matches are easily determined who the winner will be and kills any excitement or hope that you might have had in wishing for you or someone else to win.

- Duels last like 10 seconds, geez

- Those cool clan matches you might have could be interfered with by random other players helping one other team, making the clan match unfair. (Third party help is annoying)

- The leader of one of the guilds might jump on his broom and fly away! And there is nothing you can do about because last time I was playing… Players weren’t able to attack in the air.

- Newbs food / pot spam, come on?! Is this a freakin duel or is this a freaking “Who ever can buy out the other person in food”

- There lucking they fixed the jail, or I would of ragged on that too.

From what I experienced there were only around 3 to 4 servers per cluster. Server one is always going to have a load of people (way more then any of the others.) and everyone is going to crowd the bank and vendors with AFK personal shops. Sometimes walking in the main part of the town might lag a little because of such intensity. It makes me wonder how many people are actually playing on Flyff and aren’t AFK.

The Gms or “Game Masters” aren’t as customer service friendly as you would want them to be. Most of the experiences while playing with my friends left people in need of help at a dissatisfactory.

For Most of the population of the world, you will have to play a very badly translated game. Sometimes there is no point reading anything. You can tell off the bat that this is not made for video gamers that speak English.

There are official stupid rules that can get you banned in Flyff to. Some of these rules are hardly enforced but still illegal. In the real world, when someone does an illegal thing, the police make an attempt to try to settle things. In Flyff AFK skill training (an illegal rule) is a very popular thing in Flyff. Everybody does it!!!! I find that some clans actually AFK skill train together!! This even adds ever more AFKERS to the wonderful game of Flyff.. How good is the game if the player spends a majority of the time not playing it? Sadly, despite what Gms say, this rule is goes without justice.

There are numerous bugs and glitches in Flyff. Some glitches actually aid you. Like the jump on the green platform and AOE the fishes with your bad ele. Doing this will actually get you banned. From what I heard this rule is enforced. Isn’t it the human mind's job to rightly do the best decision to aid him/her in everyway? Isn’t it good for me to find out new ways to easily defeat my enemies? Shouldn’t I be able to abuse this glitch? It’s not my fault that the glitch is there. If it’s such a problem why havn't the actual designers in the game fix it, since its there problem, instead of banning someone for using there brain.

Strain as a high level player.

In play Flyff I think it can be agreed that as the levels rack up. It just gets difficult. I’m not talking a little bit tougher. I’m talking what separates the lifers with the no-lifers (you know you are a no-lifer if you have more then one person playing your level 102 psy) The fact that (with a healer) it will take you 6 to 8 hours of a nonstop grind (including repairs and supply replenishes) to level up as an example , a level 80 blade.

After so long , it becomes impossible to do things by yourself and you will be forced into having to party with a group of other high leveled people in a party level of around 70+ to move your damn freaking experience percentage bar. Jesus!

2/10

Sound - OMFG I SWEAR TO GOD. In all my life in video gaming history I have never ever been so annoyed at such appalling vibrations in the air from my head set to my ear IN MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE!!!! After 3 minutes of playing Flyff I immediately found a way to turn off the god damn music because I was starting to go insane. I would actually use the battle music to torture small siblings and it would be greatly effective. I find that walking through a crowd of mobs ( I don’t know, lets say about 36 mush pangs) saying the same god damn line over and over again is probably the reason why Israel attacked Lebanon BECAUSE AFTER HEARING ABOUT THE FREAKING SOUNDS IN FLYFF MADE THEM ATTACK THE CLOSEST COUNTRY TO THEM.

1/10

Community - Well it has your average assholes , nice people , funny people , rich people , non talking people , what ever people , super strong level 2929 people and every other kind just like any other MMORPGs There is something unique about Flyff’s social players though , a great majority of the players aren’t English! There like French, Brazilian, Portuguese, like everything else. It’s quite diversified. It might be bad if you are trying to explain to a French native that barley speaks enough English to get around. That he can’t join your clan because he doesn’t understand the rules. Still unique. Communities of games are usually never bad, only the games.

8/10




a game on the market
4/10

a game in which you dont want to pay money and want to play with your friends
6/10

[_ReeD_]

you got a point there, i like the way you point out the obvious with the cold hard truth, you should work as a reviewer for a magazine...

you may be right about flyff, but we find it very entertaining, the taste of wearing that freshly bought rare armor, the way you can call your friends to destroy boss monsters, the fun of guild events, and most importantly, making friends!

in my opinion, flyff is a flawed game, with the typos and stuff, but you don't have to be hardcore to look through that and ignore it, you just need to be willing to play.

[Susha]

Well imo, if your going to "review" something spell it right o_O

[TML]

It's a little true, but al of that doesn't bother me.

[Konnoryuu]

Jesus Christ, what would Runescape, Maplestory, etc. get? Negatives?

[Animus]

I'd have to disagree about the STA thing. My mage is full INT and it has great benefits that STA doesn't have. The high damage from full INT allows me to kills mobs 2-3 levesl above me without getting hit once.

But overall, it was a pretty accurate review. Everybody knows how bad this game is, but it's pretty addictive.

[Doommaster!]

Well that summarised it, its a damn bad game. I just didnt have the courage to admit it. JUST ONE THING...its as addictive as hell. They tempt you by having each 3 levels even cooler looking armor and weapons, and lots of monsters, plus the classes are sweet,they all unique and i like that. one thing about the graphics i dont like...traveling from island to island... no one should like the look of that water...

plus they now going to update the game (hopefully).

The GM's do suck, but not all of them. Pete is cool, he make this sort of competition at flaris is moishpoie server. At first it was annoying all the qestions he asked... but then it got fun. But then you get GM's that get bored and send lvl 34324324 creatures to the towns...(not fair) and even CLOCKWORKS! they must be high when they do that...seriously//

i admit... THE EXP IS A DISGRACE! PEOPLE ON LVL 43 GET ABOUT 0.50 EXP! I MEAN THATS JUST HOURS OF WORK! GONE ON A SIMPLE GAME! AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE SKILL EXP! FS are sapposed to have MINIMUM lvl 10 on all there heals... ARE YOU INSANE! THATS WEEEEKS OF WORK! its insane! and if you dont then you dont get into party's and ext.

The armor is really cool looking later on+weapons. thats all about that...

I like the way that the game isnt cramped wit americans (like they all are). it means you actually have a challenge with communication in the game, sort of like real life.

flying to me is just cool... if you want to get somewhere use a blink wig... its that easy...

the spell can get cool. lots of variation.

The guild are the best part. I only play that game to help my fellow guild members. im actually soon going to donate 7 million to them... because FS's dont really need money... but its really cool, ranks and all... really good stuff there 121242144/10

One thing still puzzles me... why are they huge metal things around the place... they got nothing to do with anything! couldnt they rather place really big tree's like at SM?

another thing that annoys me is the prices... it looks like the prices get doubled each time! e.g. lvl 10 armor=1000 lvl 11 armor=3500! WHY THE BIG DIFFERENCE! WE NOT LVL 70! WE DONT EARN 2MILL IN JUST 2 DAYS!

the music actually doesnt annoy me.. plus it sounds cool at darkon... i listen to the music all the time...




Dont get me wrong people... this game is just as much fun for me and for you... but this is just my 10cents when it comes to the "bad" things in this game...

[Konnoryuu]

Pete is cool, he make this sort of competition at flaris is moishpoie server.[/b]

Pete isn't a GM. x.x He was just using a fullshout and giving away stuff from his inventory.

[Doommaster!]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Konnoryuu @ Jul 22 2006, 12:41 AM) [snapback]110714[/snapback]</div>

Pete isn't a GM. x.x He was just using a fullshout and giving away stuff from his inventory.
[/b]

oh... then GM's do really suck!

[SyracusePowell]

43? DoomMaster? I suggest sucking it up now, or quitting the game. At this rate you won't even reach Ringmaster, or ever "Realise the feel...." (Taken straight from your thread title) of getting there.

[Doommaster!]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bak12 @ Jul 22 2006, 12:42 AM) [snapback]110716[/snapback]</div>

43? DoomMaster? I suggest sucking it up now, or quitting the game. At this rate you won't even reach Ringmaster, or ever "Realise the feel...." (Taken straight from your thread title) of getting there.
[/b]

DUDE! I CLEARY SAID... WHEN I STARTED THE GAME I THOUGHT IT WAS CHEAP AND KAL WAS BETTER... thats all im saying

also dont give me that "suck it up" theres some rediculace stuff there! YOU DONT GET THE "FEEL" WHEN ITS THIS HARD!

[Musashi-chan]

Yes..if the game is really as bad as you say/review then why the hell are common folk and moderatly intelligent people still playing?
Because we like it.
And that review was not "cold hard honesty" trust me, I own cold hard honesty like a guy in prison named bubba owns the new kid.
That was abusive language, and rather "noobish" I supose you could say way of describing some things.
All in all I give your review a 6/10. It needs work.

[Setzer]

Hrm.. I can agree with most things on there, and I can disagree with maybe half of what you said. About the story, there are parts of the games story throughout the game, if you actually read what NPCs say you might be a little shocked at the fact that some do contain a story to the game. On MMO's most story lines suck period. On a MMO that's targeted to attract a younger age of people, you're not gonna have the role playing you might on other games (ie: ShadowBane). That's the only MMO I know where people are hardcore RP'ers and.. it's frickin amazing.

Ok, glitches. You're basically encouraging people to abuse glitches which is very stupid and wrong. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have the right to exploit something. Hell I agree with the "hey look a platform! maybe we can jump on there and rape monsters without getting hit!" I totally agree with that, and the example you gave I personally wouldn't even consider a glitch. But the attitude you.. showed at that certain spot in your review I didn't agree with at all. It's like cheating on a test irl, just because you can and you know you probably wont get caught, doesn't make it right. Glitch abuse = lose.

Flying combat does suck, the way PvP is balanced sucks. There are alot of holes in this game. It's a grindfest made to soak up your time, and for the most part it works. I play this over a few other games (at the moment) because I am bored and I have nothing better to do. I got no life so what ;p If I enjoy playing games rather then going out and getting high every day then whatever, if you even wanna call that a life sure. I can be out there like all the other people that have a life, join some small gang go shoot up people because they crossed you out or whatever else. Anyways enough about myself, I get out when people call me or when I get tired of FlyFF. I'm not some overweight kid that spends a month staring at a computer screen.

Alright I think I'm done. For the most part I agree, but there's plenty I disagree with.

Lots of words spelled incorrectly in a review = lose also. Overusing words = lose (bullcrap, bullshit). Straight out Bashing the game = lose, do it constructively and you'll have much more success with your reviews rather then someone looking at it and saying "this guys stupid he only knows how to insult".

[Ricky]

Despite what you said about reading all, I didnt, sorry, just read the graphics review and I think 3 out of 10 for graphics is way to low. FlyFF graphics are great for an online game. Have you ever noticed how each of the mobs has its own unique animation. Seriously, spend 2 minutes just looking at a Totemia and you're going to role over laughing, or the animation for the assist. The dude is a super skinny freak trying to show chest muscles. Those little things give this game a character. There's no way I can agree that the graphiics deserve a 3 out of 10. I still wont vote for the review until i eventually read the whole thing but so far it looks like you're just trying to let off some steam and not being totally unbias, and why on earth did you create a new profile just to post this? then say something like, "You can ban me IDC" that's just wrong man, if you want to speak your mind then do it like a man.

[Sakina]

maples story later scored a -4 overall...out of 10