Common Sense Media Review
By Carolyn Koh
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Starts free, but fantasy game has in-game costs.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 13+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Play
What's It About?
FIESTA ONLINE draws you in with impressive, crisp graphics. As a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in a fantasy world, you select from four classic character types: the healer, the mage, the archer, and the warrior. You can develop and save four different characters, so you can try out all of them.
Creating your character is simple, as you only have one face and three hairstyles and colors to choose from. You can pay a "cosmetician" in the game cash-shop to change your appearance, and earn equipment as you play to differentiate your character. Movement is via point-and-click with the mouse or by using the WASD keys. Fighting is done by targeting creatures through a click and pressing or clicking the attack and skill hotkeys. A mini-map makes navigating through town and the surrounding areas easy and there is a "warp home" button available to players. As you play, your character can develop friendships, including selecting a mate to marry.
Is It Any Good?
Characters start off with crafting recipes available to them and gamers can easily play this game without investing any real cash to buy health potions and scrolls. Players looking for more than a hack-and-slash game will find things to do in this game like the crafting and harvesting as well as quests for acquiring those skills. Like many games of this genre, players will find Fiesta Online a "grind fest" where they must repeat combat behaviors so as to make their character more powerful, and that achieving levels above level 10 is hard to do. This is not to say that the game isn't fun and engaging, just that progress slows down very quickly. Players will also find that some classes seem to level faster than others. Many quests in Fiesta requires players to work together to succeed, and the quests benefit the town and the townfolk.
Like many free-to-play online games, Fiesta Online often employs in-game as well as out-of-game events and competitions to keep things lively and interesting for players, as well as frequent updates and added content.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about why a game that is free to play can be expensive. Why do developers create games with this model of making money? Would you rather just pay a fee upfront and then have access to all of the game's assets? What do you do if another player says something inappropriate to you. Do you know how to use the "ignore" function?
Game Details
- Platform : Windows
- Pricing structure : Free
- Available online? : Available online
- Publisher : Outspark
- Release date : May 22, 2007
- Genre : Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)
- ESRB rating :
- Last updated : November 15, 2019
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