Sidescrolling mmo: Wonderking Preview

Wonder king online is a free to play side scrolling mmo that unfortunately dawns the title of maple story 2 amongst its fans. Though there are some minor differences and a major graphics update- it is pretty familiar. The game is currently is just coming out of closed beta so I cant give you much info. Heres the frame by frame overview:

CHARACTER CREATION: The character customization in wonder king is... well... non existent... You start out with a choice between the 4 classes and hair color. And thats about it. Your hair style is chosen by your class. Now, heres my problem- it would seem that he head and body work separately. That is, your head changes with your class and not your body. So WHY cant you just choose between all the heads anyway? Well... whatever. You can choose between he four cliches. Warrior, Thief, Archer, And Mage. Archers being able to use guns as well as bows. You can mess with your stats a little at character customization as well. Thats unfortunately all there is to it.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: So the game starts you off in a tiny forest tutorial- floating keys in the air telling you what to do. It controlls exactly as maple story except for a few key things:
         Differences between maple story.
-Theres a double jump
-Theres a dash
As you go along you see different npc with quest- usually to talk to other npcs or kill some of the monsters that can hit you back. Heres a nice little feature: When you talk to an npc a small screen comes up with everything you can do with said npc. Also, each npc has a voice over. A voice over (in english) is just a nice touch I thought.

PRESENATION: The graphics in wonderking are very bright and clear. The graphics do have a simular feel to maplestory but they feel a bit more hand painted. The music is normal for a side scrolling videogame... which is bad. I give the music an I HATE IT out of 5.All the NPCs having voice overs is a great add on. I havn't noiced any engrish at all.

GAMEPLAY: Time to get on to some actual gameplay. The gameplay in Wonderking can be summed up in 2 words: Maple Story. Actually- those trolls named anonymous screaming CLONE might of been right. So if you dont know what I mean heres the run down. You attack with a combo of about 4 hits. However- atleast as my thief class- enemies flinch JUST enough to be out of range by your second attack.Sso you find yourself attacking, moving forward a tiny bit, attacking, moving forward, rinse, wash, repeat.

CLASSES:

SWORDSMAN: The swordsman is the tank. High HP low mana. They can go on to become a Warrior and supplement attack for defense- or a knight and grow in defense.

MAGICIAN: The magic class. With low health an defense they can only take a little damage but can do incredible damage with flashy magic. They can go on to be a Priest to heal and help a party survive or a Wizard to destroy hundreds of enemies with a swipe of the wand.

THIEF: Using twin blades and ninja stars the thief is the critical hit dealer of the game. They can go on to become a Rouge, dual wielding knives and dishing out combos or a ninja using stars and dodging everything.

SCOUT: Using traps and arrows or bullets, theyre unlikely to get hurt. But they have average health and mana. They can go on to become an Archer and use bows or gunners who do more damage from a distance.