• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 10, age appropriate for kids over 13; suggested age 13.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  MMO in dragon fantasy world, with killing & open chat.

Why We Rated This for Ages 13 and Up

The good stuff

• Ease of play:

  One of this game's strength is the ease of play.  A 3-D platforming game, the controls are intuitive, the tutorial helpful, and helpful information is available via a mouse-click or mouse-over.
• Educational value:

  Players learn teamwork and how to get along with others in an online social context. Cooperation is the only way to beat the harder monsters in this game.
• Messages:

  Players help each other, team up against boss monsters, and assist townspeople by completing quests. The game awards points for cooperating.
• Role models:

  Players are encouraged to better themselves and be heroes to save the world of El Grego.

What to watch out for

• Online interaction:

  Kids can easily interact online on the forums as well as in open chat.  Children have to be 13+ to participate in the forums and in-game chat has a strong language filter. However, naughty players can frequently find creative ways to get around language filters.
• Violence:

  Plenty of weapon use (swords, bows, daggers, cannons) and cartoon character whacking. Creatures, including sheep, wolves, walking stumps, racoons holding plungers, zombie skeletons, shark-boy pirates, can be killed by you and they die in what is supposed to be a humorous nature, but the animation may seem grotesque to some. For example, evil looking Sheep (accomplished with the eyes) fall on their backs, turn black and charred, have an X for eyes and the tongue sticks out - for a second or two before they disappear. A creature can be flung towards the player and a boken window graphic then appears on your screen.
• Sex:

  Cartoon characters may wear bikinis, but as they are childlike and the female characters have no cleavage.
• Language:

  Language created in the game is not an issue but in-game chat has the potential for offense because it is Open Chat with a strong word filter (which cannot be turned off). Naughty players can frequently find creative ways of bypassing the filter.
• Consumerism:

  A "velvet rope" free-to-play game where players start off free but are enticed to pay the further they get into the game. The game does this by selling cute items such as space suits and chicken hats, and consumable items such as health potions and teleporation scrolls for real cash. Players will always see announcements of new items available in the Cash Shop on the loading screen.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  There is some reference to drinking as this is a fantasy game where characters have alcohol in their lives, particularly if a character is an innkeeper.

What Parents Need to Know

This review of Dragonica Online was written by Carolyn Koh

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