Red Stone

Overview

"Red Stone" is a 2D fantasy MMORPG set in colonial America, and offers ten classes to choose from and a skill system separate from your base level.

Features

• Quests marked on mini map
• Lots of skills to choose
• Lots of classes to choose from

Review

Red Stone'€™s homepage is quite deceitful: the game'€™s art looks phenomenal and it may fool you into thinking the game has decent graphics, but in reality the game looks and feels very dated. Red Stone has so many flaws that it is difficult finding a spot to begin. Combat isn'€™t responsive half the time if you'€™re playing as a mage, as your character doesn'€™t attack half the time and just stands there. Another issue is as a newbie, quests are nearly impossible to find as every quest NPC is marked on the map, even if the quest is too high level for you, so you really can'€™t distinguish which quests you are capable of completing or not.

The most aggravating part about Red Stone is that you can only equip 2 consumable items per hot key slot, meaning after using 2 potions, you have to go back to your inventory and drag 2 more potions onto the hot key bar. Now, the only reason developers would ever implement such an absurd feature would be to drive us all insane. The only way to really deal with this problem is to equip healing items to all of your hotkey slots, but it may cause you to die if you'€™re slamming F1 and the F1 Slot ran out of potions and you were supposed to hit F3.

Red Stone does have a few 'good€ qualities, however. The non-combat game play itself feels smooth, and the game offers a pretty informative tutorial. The large selection of classes and skills will also keep you occupied. All in all, if you can look past the faults, the game isn'€™t that bad. The large selection of classes and skills will keep you hooked if you can tolerate the dated graphics and small game population.