Destiny of Ancient Kingdoms Online Client

The MMORPG market is quite full at the moment, especially since there are so many alternatives to choose from when it comes to sub-genres and categories. On top of that, there are many free-to-play games as well, which makes it even easier to start playing something right away, without worrying about purchase prices or monthly subscriptions.

Destiny of Ancient Kingdoms is a classic MMORPG that features the usual gameplay mechanics you might have experienced in World of Warcraft, Lineage, or many other games, as well as an intriguing universe inspired by the Norse mythology. However, the whole package is quite stale, mainly because the game fails to bring anything new to the table in regards to gameplay, graphics, or the leveling experience.

As such, you start by choosing the desired character class, although the differences are not big enough to matter all that much. The biggest difference is in whether you attack using a ranged or a melee weapon, as well as whether your survival depends on spells. It’s a bummer to see the lack of imagination in this regard, because there are so many sources of inspiration developers can use nowadays.

The gameplay is more or less the same as in every other MMORPG focused on grinding, which means that you have to kill all sorts of creatures in order to gain experience and make your character stronger. You can also gather items and equip them to further improve your abilities, but the actual combat is very straightforward and repetitive, not to mention extremely unoriginal.

The rest of the mechanics are borrowed from well-known games too, so there’s nothing unique about Destiny of Ancient Kingdoms, except maybe the fact that you cannot jump, for some reason. Moreover, the graphics are very poor for this day and age, especially when it comes to texture quality and level design. It doesn’t feel at all like a different world, not to mention the fact that you are constantly blocked by invisible walls no matter where you go.

Unfortunately, Destiny of Ancient Kingdoms fails to be entertaining, mainly because it doesn’t try at all to be original and just let the players enjoy themselves. Instead, everything looks and feels like it was designed ten years ago when the genre was in its infancy, which is difficult to swallow when there are so many alternatives to choose from.