You'll have to get used to the Flash interface, which necessarily brings with it the internet way of clicking on things. Teaming up is, as always, the most rewarding way to go - but not many people seemed keen to help such a needy, confused newb as myself. It's slower, but it's tolerable even if you start off far too weak, and take a hammering from even the softest balls of white gobbly fur. Barely any dialogue goes by without some kind of wisecrack, and even if the jokes don't always square with our more British tastes, you can - and will -ignore them.ĭofus has a huge range of arcane-sounding professions - which become less arcane when you realise they're mostly anagrams, or spelled backwards - and the combat is an interesting turn-based mix of speed chess and WOW.
The charm of Dofus is more than just the game, though it's in the world, the personality and the humour. This is especially true if you choose, as I did, the happy grass-coloured guy. Screens, the avatars are necessarily quite small, and it's often difficult to see where you are. Because the action takes place over a number of beautifully drawn - but static, and 2D. That gushing first paragraph aside, it's a shame that the in-game graphics don't follow through on the promise. It combines that curiously French quality with more Eastern influences - the low-level spiders have a pretty charming similarity to Miyazaki's soot creatures in Spirited Away. It's evocative, dynamic, imaginative and downright lovely to look at - there's a manga version. And it's easy to see the appeal the concept art is gorgeous. Dofus Is Incredibly popular abroad it claims to have players in the millions, and is particularly big with our Gallic neighbours, the French.
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