Dofus 2.0 (Windows, Mac)
common sense media says
Anime-inspired fantasy MMO with turn-based combat and chat.
parents & educators say
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this is a massively multiplayer online role playing game with open chat. A portion of the game is free to play and although players can spend some time just playing their characters in that arena, there is a much larger world thats open only to subscribers. As combat is turn-based and players have to activly enter combat, this is an easy game to pause and may be played for short periods of time. The graphics are very appealing and the game is Flash-based - which means that with a small download, it will run on low-powered computers running any platform - Linux, Mac, or Windows.
Educational value:
Players learn to exercise logic when solving puzzles for quests.
Positive role models:
Main characters are the class trainers. They are positive and encourage young adventurers to better themselves and do the best they can.
Ease of play:
Game controls are simple and mostly clicks of the mouse. There aren't any complicated combinations of key strokes. The tutorial is easy to follow and hints and tips are available thoughout the game. Mouse-overs provide players with all item information.
Violence:
Medium fantasy violence. To improve their characters and gather items for crafting, players have to kill other creatures in the game. However there is no blood or gore and the cute critters simply fall over and disappear.
Sex:
Some female characters can wear skimpy clothing and some text can be colorful but humorous, like a tailor saying "Look at that body on you!"
Language:
Not an issue. Language is clean and humorous although some humor can lean towards adult innuendo.
Consumerism:
Although the game has a free area to play in, players are enticed to subscribe by the premiums that only come with the monthly subscription. It's success has also led to spin-off merchandise such as stuffed toys, books, art, and comics - although these are not seen on the website or in-game.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
An ocassional character, typically a village elder, may be seen with a corncob pipe.
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Cormorant5
kid, 13 years old
kid, 13 years old
Common Sense, for the first time I've seen, is wrong. First of all, they say there is no blood, they just fall when they die. Actually when you attack monsters or innocent animals, blood squirts out, and different enemies have different animations for dying. Some drop dead, and some fall into a bloody pile of bones, etc.. Also they said that drinking, smoking, and drugs isn't a problem, when there is a whole class, whom you have to specially buy, who's main attack is to get drunk and gain power. The class, a panda, can be seen constantly pouring what looks like moonshine all over his/her self. When it comes to language, they might not have gotten this far in the game, ,but a certain character in a required quest cusses. Not badly, but cusses. Yet through all that, it teaches kids to be consistent, and that sometimes things are even more fun when you do one thing, (let's say, one class or character) a long amount of time.
I agree when they say it's easy and safe. Whenever you type a message that might contain any personal information they send a message saying this message can not be sent. The only way to avoid this is to put spaces in between each letter/number, so hopefully your kid is A, not smart enough to figure that out, and B, not motivated enough to try that hard. Also, some characters are motivating, nice, and good role models, as well as some are ugly, mean, violent, and terrible. You end up mostly talking to the nice ones, and fighting the bad ones, which depending on your view may or may not be a good thing.
Turning back to language, a lot of parents are okay with one or two "d" words, and this is honestly all that is. After the first or second week, the language perfectly stops, after 2-3 hardly foul words.
As for product placement, they constantly send text saying you should subscribe, spend fees after fees to be able to get new things, like pets, more clothes, that alcohol based class, and mostly tons of more locations. So that is not a problem as long as you don't let them have access to that kind of stuff (credit card numbers, etc., for they can take it with out asking) that's not a problem. The free version does go on forever, but honestly there is a constant craving to pay for new things.
All in all, it's okay. I rated it iffy for 10 because there are those moments, and Dofus players probably no what I mean, but even 10+ is pretty fine. As for fun, I think it takes patience at first but then it's very fun. 8/10.
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