Overview

Features

• Gorgeous Visuals
• Multiple Game Modes -- Play on Land or at Sea!
• Bonus Recreation Skills such as Fishing, Cooking, Personal Shops, and Item Crafting
• Encourages Partying with Other Players
• Unique Skill Progression for Land and Sea

Review

Florensia is a Free-to-Play (F2P) MMO that offers both land and sea combat. It has an anime look-and-feel, and from its bouncing mushrooms to its extra cute characters, Florensia is decidedly oriented to teens and pre-teens. That said, it also offers a solid MMO experience that makes it appealing to an older audience, too.

Florensia is your standard MMO, and it contains everything you'd expect from an MMO, but with added bonus of sea battles; a bonus you're very likely to enjoy.

Florensia allows you to choose one of four starting class: a Noble, an Explorer, a Saint, and a Mercenary. The Mercenary is a warrior-tank class, the Saint a healer, and the Noble is mage. The Explorer, with its guns, is a ranged class, but can also wield a sword for melee.

Questing is your standard MMO fair. Go kill 6 of this. Go gather 20 of these. Go see this person, then go see that person. Florensia might not have the most inventive quests, but what it lacks in originality it makes up for in variety and quantity. If you get bored with the land quests, you can do some sea quests. If you get bored with those, there are quests for other activities such as fishing.

Florensia's level cap is 99. By having a high level cap and a slow levelling curve, most players won't bypass a lot of the game. They'll actually experience most of what Florensia has to offer, giving them time to stop and smell the MMO roses. 

But the thing that is probably going to draw you to Florensia is the sea warfare. The sea warfare is what separates Florensia from the rest of the MMO herd. If you've ever played an MMO before, you'll be right at home with Florensia's land combat. You'll quickly get the hang of it. It's all standard fare, and Florensia's ship combat will probably seem unfamiliar at first. Hey, you're not on dry land, anymore. Steering and firing your ship plus using your seafaring abilities can seem a little daunting at first, but just at first. You'll gradually get the hang of it and might find yourself spending most of your time at sea.

Florensia's ship combat will be a whole new experience to most. Unlike other sea warfare games, steering and controlling your ship is not brain-dead simple. It's actually a little challenging in Florensia, but in a good way. You have to pay attention to the speed and direction of your ship to accurately aim your guns. Don't worry. With a little practice, you'll get used to it.

As you gain experience, you'll have opportunities to upgrade your ship in various ways, plus you'll be able to get new ships. Ship types include:  Armored, Assault, Big Gun, Maintenance, and Torpedo Ships. All have different roles, just like your character. For instance, the Armored Ship is a basically a seafaring tank and the Maintenance Ship is essentially a healer. You can have more than one ship and your ship type isn't limited by your class, so you have the flexibility at sea of fulfilling and experimenting with different roles without having to switch to another character.

Florensia is a top-notch MMORPG. It's a good place for kids and adults to come play, and the GMs are there to insure the game will appeal to players of all ages. The sea warfare and nautical theme is the draw of the game, and that's going to pull a lot of players to the game. And it should for you, too. After all, how often do you get to build your own ship and fight your battles at sea?

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