About a week ago, the new action MMORPG Dekaron G (Android, iOS) launched, and the G stands for global because they wanted to appeal to as many players as possible. Even our MMORPG author Mark Sellner felt drawn in, but he quickly regretted his journey. In this article, he tells you why.
Dekaron G is the remake of the now 18-year-old Dekaron, which was originally called 2Moons. In between, there was a mobile version of the MMORPG called Dekaron M, where the “M” stands for mobile. However, since mobile games generally leave me rather cold, I never tried M myself.
What I have tried more than once is the original Dekaron. The Asian action MMORPG with the outdated graphics was my absolute highlight back then. Right after my first MMORPG, Last Chaos, which I revisited last year and immediately regretted, I played Dekaron almost excessively.
Unfortunately, there is no way to track your playtime, but if I claim that I played Dekaron for about 10,000 hours, I would be underestimating it. During my school years, I practically lived in Dekaron until I eventually moved on to other MMORPGs due to a lack of content.
Then, a few weeks ago, the new trailer for Dekaron G unexpectedly appeared and had my full attention. The stroke of genius the developers used was simply to remake the ancient trailer. And exactly the same trailer that I had fallen for back then drew me back in.
You can see the aforementioned trailer here:
Play2Earn and crypto caused frustration, just not for me
The first trailer already hinted at it, and the information that the developers later provided confirmed it in the end. Dekaron G is an MMORPG developed for mobile devices that focuses on Play2Earn and cryptocurrencies. A PC version is supposed to follow, but it should only be a port of the mobile version.
Although many fans were already deterred in advance, I was not bothered at all. I am by no means a fan of Play2Earn, and mobile games usually don’t go beyond any puzzle platformers for me, but despite these bad omens, I was looking forward to Dekaron G.
Because I wanted to return to the world of Dekaron and was convinced that I could end up writing that I played a Play2Earn crypto mobile MMORPG and actually found it pretty good. I wanted to tell something really good about the MMORPG that would shock everyone.
But after over 4 hours in Dekaron G, I come to the sober conclusion that I simply cannot say anything good about the game – as much as I want to. However, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with the crypto part. Not even the mobile optimization is to blame.
No, the game is a slap in the face for anyone who wanted to have the old Dekaron back.
Only the names remain the same in a completely new game
Dekaron may still be called Dekaron, but there is hardly anything left of the original game. This quickly becomes apparent as soon as you start Dekaron G. Instead of the 9 classes available in the original, G offers me only 4, and they have even been stripped of their names.
The Azure Knight has become the “1H-Sword” class, and the Incar Magician has been promptly renamed to “Staff”. So, you don’t really select a class anymore, but only a weapon that you want to play with. But at least they are still genderlocked – great.
This is complemented by the Trans-Up system, which seems to be a kind of gacha mechanic, but even after 4 hours in Dekaron G, I still haven’t quite understood it. Here too, the name misled me, as in the old Dekaron, a Trans-Up was simply a skill that you unlocked in the endgame that could briefly transform you.
In Dekaron G, on the other hand, I can change my entire class through the Trans-Ups. I switch gender, appearance, weapons, skills, and more by selecting and unlocking one of the many possible Trans-Ups.
I received one of them through the story of the game while questing. I assume I can buy more, but so far I haven’t been able to see where that actually works. At least this system provides more class variety, albeit in a strange way.
Besides that, I barely recognize the areas in the game anymore. Although the cities, monsters, and surrounding landscapes still have the same names, everything is simply different. Even the layout of the zones has changed significantly and has become more compact.
However, this has nothing to do with the Dekaron that I loved. This is also because a highlight of the old MMORPG was the combat system, which is hardly present in Dekaron G and is even somewhat unnecessary.
I don’t want to play any further, but no problem – Dekaron plays itself
Relatively early in my play session, I accidentally pressed a button on the right side of the screen. Suddenly, there was an “Auto” button, and the whole game simply did everything by itself. Fighting, walking, handing in quests, talking to NPCs – everything.
While just minutes before I was annoyed that as a “Magician” aka Staff I had only received 2 skills that could barely be used, spells and abilities were now completely unnecessary.
This also gives me a picture just a few days after release that I last knew from Lost Ark. Bots everywhere. Even in the starting area, numerous characters with identical appearances and generic names cross my path.
This annoys me. I still want to see something good in the game, but G really isn’t making it easy for me.
Dekaron G disappoints, but probably only me
By now, every eager reader should have noticed that I am really not enthusiastic about Dekaron G. Angry, disappointed, and a little sad, I put the phone down after a total of 4 hours.
But the longer I think about it and let the experiences sink in, the more one thing becomes clear to me: Dekaron G is actually not that bad.
Soberly viewed, there will probably hardly be people like me there. People who have played the original for thousands of hours and are disappointed by a remake. I am not the target audience for Dekaron G, and that’s a good thing.
The truth is, those who have no problem with mobile games and Play2Earn and do not know Dekaron actually get a solid game here. The graphics are pretty, the Trans-Up mechanics offer class diversity, and in terms of story, Dekaron G does not have to hide from PC MMORPGs, especially if you like dark fantasy.
And especially in terms of story, there is even an improvement over the original, namely dialogues and pretty animations added. Those did not exist back then and make the overall picture more coherent.
So if you’re looking for a free-to-play game that you can play alongside and can also put down without losing progress, Dekaron G isn’t that bad at all.
I just had completely wrong expectations of the MMORPG. It hasn’t turned out to be a nostalgic trip back to the game of my school days. But in the end, that’s probably just my very personal problem with Dekaron G.
What do you think about it? Have you already checked out Dekaron G? Did you play the original back then and wanted to draw a direct comparison? Or does the name mean nothing to you, and Dekaron is a fresh brand for you? How do you feel about Play2Earn and crypto? Feel free to let us know in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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